Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

Overview

Works:	2,902 works in 6,973 publications in 7 languages and 248,225 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Film adaptations Detective and mystery films Film noir Musical films History Thrillers (Motion pictures) War films Western films Gangster films
Roles:	Producer, prn
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

The Warner Bros. story by Clive Hirschhorn( Book )
You must remember this : the Warner Bros. story by Richard Schickel( Book )
Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951)( Book )
Hollywood be thy name : the Warner Brothers story by Cass Warner Sperling( Book )
Warner Brothers presents: the most exciting years--from the Jazz singer to White heat by Ted Sennett( Book )

Ronald Reagan in Hollywood : movies and politics by Stephen Vaughn( Book )
The Warner Brothers by Michael Freedland( Book )
HollywoodTV : the studio system in the fifties by Christopher Anderson( Book )
Celluloid soldiers : the Warner Bros. campaign against Nazism by Michael E Birdwell( Book )
Here's looking at you, kid : 50 years of fighting, working, and dreaming at Warner Bros. by James R Silke( Book )
A new deal in entertainment : Warner Brothers in the 1930s by Nick Roddick( Book )
Warner Bros. : Hollywood's ultimate backlot by Steven Bingen( Book )
Warner Brothers directors : the hard-boiled, the comic, and the weepers by William R Meyer( Book )
Warner Brothers by Charles Higham( Book )
Tabloid, Inc. : crimes, newspapers, narratives by V. Penelope Pelizzon( Book )
The brothers Warner by Cass Warner( Visual )
The film finds its tongue by Fitzhugh Green( Book )
The women of Warner Brothers : the lives and careers of 15 leading ladies : with filmographies for each by Daniel Bubbeo( Book )
From the headlines to Hollywood : the birth and boom of Warner Bros. by Chris Yogerst( Book )
Those crazy, wonderful years when we ran Warner Bros. by Stuart Jerome( Book )

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Most widely held works by Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

My fair lady by George Cukor( Visual )

53 editions published between 1964 and 2015 in English and French and held by 5,376 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the slums, Eliza Doolittle, who has a strong Cockney accent. Can Higgins turn Eliza into a duchess? And will Eliza care to remain a lady for long? When the humble flower girl blossoms into the toast of London's elite, her teacher may have a lesson or two to learn himself

The Maltese falcon by John Huston( Visual )

67 editions published between 1941 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 4,486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In The Maltese falcon, Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind

The searchers by John Ford( Visual )

56 editions published between 1956 and 2015 in English and French and held by 4,243 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness

A Streetcar Named Desire by Elia Kazan( Visual )

48 editions published between 1951 and 2014 in English and held by 4,215 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else he can about her past, and tension between Blanche and Stanley is further intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies

Casablanca by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

73 editions published between 1942 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 3,971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis

Rebel without a cause by Nicholas Ray( Visual )

47 editions published between 1955 and 2013 in English and held by 3,706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jim Stark, the teenage son of a well-to-do family, is overcome by loneliness, frustration and anger, which leads to violence when he seeks approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums

Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn( Visual )

36 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 3,563 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era

The treasure of the Sierra Madre by John Huston( Visual )

36 editions published between 1948 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 2,817 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Greed and suspicion surround three prospectors in their search for gold

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Mike Nichols( Visual )

33 editions published between 1966 and 2013 in English and held by 2,716 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A couple is invited to the home of a professor and his sharp-tongued wife, and are treated to verbal battles by their hosts

Looney tunes golden collection by Mel Blanc( Visual )

39 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in English and held by 2,713 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Featuring some of the very earliest, ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites, it's an unprecedented celebration for cartoon-lovers eager to re-live the heady, hilarious, golden age of Warner Bros. animation. Fifty-six landmark animated marvels, including Bugs Bunny, in a dazzling assortment of his very best toons. Also highlighted: the ever-flustered Daffy Duck and eternal straight-man Porky Pig. Plus, all the rest of the beloved Looney Tunes lineup starring in some of the most wildly imaginative cartoon shorts ever created

Strangers on a Train by Alfred Hitchcock( Visual )

39 editions published between 1951 and 2016 in English and French and held by 2,634 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train

Frank Capra's Arsenic and old lace by Frank Capra( Visual )

24 editions published between 1944 and 2010 in English and held by 2,524 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mirthful murder Cary-ed off in slapstick, slap-happy style! Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic farce based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 Broadway hit and breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who ply lonely geezers with poisoned libations, on sociopathic brother (Raymond Massey) who looks like Boris Karloff, one bonkers brother (John Alexander) who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, one impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane) -- and only one night to make it turn out all right. In this circus' center ring is Grant, twisting his face into a clown's gallery of flabbergasted reactions and transforming his natural athletic grace into a rubber-legged comic ballet. You'll die laughing. - Container

The big sleep by Howard Hawks( Visual )

46 editions published between 1945 and 2016 in English and held by 2,518 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love

The music man by Marion Hargrove( Visual )

14 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in English and held by 2,367 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately--and romantically--backfires

Giant by George Stevens( Visual )

27 editions published between 1956 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 2,245 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Director George Steven's sweeping saga of family conflict and social consciousness based on Edna Ferber's best seller. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Starring Rock Hudson as rancher Bick Benedict, Elizabeth Taylor as his wife Leslie and James Dean (in his final film role) as nouveau oil baron Jett Rink, this tale of three generations of Texan remains both grand and intimate

The adventures of Robin Hood by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

28 editions published between 1938 and 2010 in English and Italian and held by 2,237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicating his life to fighting against tyranny by stealing from the rich and giving to the poor

John Steinbeck's East of Eden by Elia Kazan( Visual )

36 editions published between 1954 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California

Yankee Doodle Dandy by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

27 editions published between 1942 and 2014 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 2,148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

James Cagney sings and dances his way through this musical. The video is a biography of George M. Cohan, famed playwright, entertainer and composer of patriotic songs

Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock( Visual )

24 editions published between 1954 and 2007 in English and held by 2,127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A man devises a plan to murder his wife, not only because he wants her money, but because she is in love with another man

Mildred Pierce by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

26 editions published between 1945 and 2017 in English and held by 2,060 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high society. Greedy, self-absorbed Veda is still ungrateful, and demands an even greater sacrifice of her mother. Eventually, Mildred finds herself ensnared in the world of police and suspicion when Monte is mysteriously murdered

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