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Box office is down, a cash crunch has hit pocketbooks and a new media rival has exhibitors worried. Sounds a lot like the 1930s.
The studio that helped define Hollywood filmmaking at scale was built by four brothers who had no shortage of vision and ambition.
The studio that helped define Hollywood filmmaking at scale was built by four brothers who had no shortage of vision and ambition.
The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) On Yom Kippur, cantor Rabinowitz (played by Warner Oland) looks forward to when his 13-year-old son, Jakie (Robert Gordon), will succeed him at the synagogue. However, after discovering that Jakie is singing in a saloon, the cantor beats him, and Jakie runs away from home. As an adult (Al Jolson), Jakie becomes a jazz singer, perfo...
Marking 100 Years of Warner Bros. means remembering the despised studio boss who battled his brothers, fought his stars, and left a ruthless legacy