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When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Screen Industries and Performance
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This book offers a different take on the early history of Warner
Bros., the studio renowned for introducing talking pictures and
developing the gangster film and backstage musical comedy. The
focus here is on the studio's sustained commitment to produce films
based on stage plays. This led to the creation of a stock company
of talented actors, to the introduction of sound cinema, to the
recruitment of leading Broadway stars such as John Barrymore and
George Arliss and to films as diverse as The Gold Diggers (1923),
The Marriage Circle (1924), Beau Brummel (1924), Disraeli (1929),
Lilly Turner (1933), The Petrified Forest (1936) and The Private
Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). Even the most crippling
effects of the Depression in 1933 did not prevent Warners'
production of films based on stage plays, many being transformed
into star vehicles for the likes of Ruth Chatterton, Leslie Howard
and Bette Davis.
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