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...
Publisher's description: A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into ...
This dissertation argues that scholars should not equate the demise of vaudeville as a cultural indu...
The principal force that shaped the lives of Americans in the 1930s was the great economic Depressio...
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final ...
Before the introduction of sound in 1926/27, the biggest and most prestigious stars at Warner Bros. ...
It is well known that virtually every significant American dramatist in the decades after the end of...
This book is the first definitive account of the way that the Hollywood film industry remembered and...
Irving Thalberg was not just a critically important producer during Hollywood’s Golden Age, but also...
In this chapter, I explore the role of history in Hollywood musicals, from the 1920s through until t...
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:3597.8915(22) / BLDSC - British Libra...
International audienceMore than any other film genre, the musical of Hollywood’s Golden Age depended...
The Hollywood studio era of the 1930s and 1940s was remarkable for its abundance of glamorous stars....
Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule. Ma and Pa Kettle. Ross Hunter weepie...
Modern theatrical scholars do not generally hold the first two decades of 20th century American dram...
Stardom and the profitability of film making: Warner Bros. in the 1930s. Michael Pokorny
Publisher's description: A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into ...
This dissertation argues that scholars should not equate the demise of vaudeville as a cultural indu...
The principal force that shaped the lives of Americans in the 1930s was the great economic Depressio...
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final ...
Before the introduction of sound in 1926/27, the biggest and most prestigious stars at Warner Bros. ...
It is well known that virtually every significant American dramatist in the decades after the end of...
This book is the first definitive account of the way that the Hollywood film industry remembered and...
Irving Thalberg was not just a critically important producer during Hollywood’s Golden Age, but also...
In this chapter, I explore the role of history in Hollywood musicals, from the 1920s through until t...
SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:3597.8915(22) / BLDSC - British Libra...
International audienceMore than any other film genre, the musical of Hollywood’s Golden Age depended...
The Hollywood studio era of the 1930s and 1940s was remarkable for its abundance of glamorous stars....
Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule. Ma and Pa Kettle. Ross Hunter weepie...
Modern theatrical scholars do not generally hold the first two decades of 20th century American dram...
Stardom and the profitability of film making: Warner Bros. in the 1930s. Michael Pokorny
Publisher's description: A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into ...
This dissertation argues that scholars should not equate the demise of vaudeville as a cultural indu...
The principal force that shaped the lives of Americans in the 1930s was the great economic Depressio...