Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

Overview

Works:	2,901 works in 7,574 publications in 6 languages and 241,283 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Film adaptations Musical films Detective and mystery films Romance films Western films Film noir Gangster films History Biographical films
Roles:	Producer, prn, pre, isb, Publisher, Distributor, Other
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

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

Celluloid soldiers : the Warner Bros. campaign against Nazism by Michael E Birdwell( )
Warner Bros : the making of an American movie studio by David Thomson( Book )
You must remember this : the Warner Bros. story by Richard Schickel( Book )
The Warner Bros. story by Clive Hirschhorn( Book )
Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951)( 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 )
Hollywood be thy name : the Warner Brothers story by Cass Warner Sperling( Book )
Warner Bros. : Hollywood's ultimate backlot by Steven Bingen( Book )
HollywoodTV : the studio system in the fifties by Christopher Anderson( Book )
The Warner Brothers by Michael Freedland( Book )
A new deal in entertainment : Warner Brothers in the 1930s by Nick Roddick( Book )
Here's looking at you, kid : 50 years of fighting, working, and dreaming at Warner Bros. by James R Silke( Book )
Tabloid, Inc. : crimes, newspapers, narratives by V. Penelope Pelizzon( Book )
Warner Brothers directors : the hard-boiled, the comic, and the weepers by William R Meyer( Book )
Warner Brothers by Charles Higham( Book )
The brothers Warner by Cass Warner( Visual )
From the headlines to Hollywood : the birth and boom of Warner Bros. by Chris Yogerst( Book )
When Warners brought Broadway to Hollywood 1923-1939 by Martin Shingler( )
The film finds its tongue by Fitzhugh Green( Book )

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

My fair lady by George Cukor( Visual )

73 editions published between 1964 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 5,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady

"Casablanca" by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

42 editions published between 1942 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 5,144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis

The searchers by John Ford( Visual )

80 editions published between 1956 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,156 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 )

55 editions published between 1951 and 2020 in English and held by 4,107 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 her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies

Rebel without a cause by Nicholas Ray( Visual )

60 editions published between 1955 and 2020 in English and Spanish and held by 3,592 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

The Maltese falcon by John Huston( Visual )

81 editions published between 1941 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 3,464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

After the death of his partner, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless statuette

Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn( Visual )

36 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in English and French and held by 3,382 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

The music man by Robert Preston( Visual )

25 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in English and held by 2,735 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall

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

28 editions published between 1966 and 2016 in English and held by 2,632 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

The big sleep by Howard Hawks( Visual )

61 editions published between 1945 and 2016 in English and held by 2,555 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by the wealthy General Sternwood to expose a blackmailer who is holding compromising photos of Sternwood's daughter. The film evokes the chaotic underworld of Chandler's novel through setting and visualisation rather than plot. The complexities of the narrative are still present, but they no longer constitute the main ground against which the noir figure of Marlowe is defined. By stressing characteristics and visual style rather than events, it ultimately reduces a story line that is irretrievably tangled, to minor significance. The definitive Bogart-Becall vehicle, the film plays heavily on the sexual tension between the two actors, expressed primarily through their double entendre-loaded banter and their non-verbal expressions of sympathy that quickly undermine the initial antagonism of the characters

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

30 editions published between 1947 and 2015 in English and held by 2,471 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two down-and-out Americans in Mexico meet a grizzled old prospector who piques their interest with stories of his gold-hunting experiences. The Americans gather a stake and set off with the old prospector in search of fortune

Strangers on a Train by Alfred Hitchcock( Visual )

47 editions published between 1951 and 2013 in English and held by 2,352 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. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain

The adventures of Robin Hood by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

48 editions published between 1938 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 2,238 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 dedicated to fight against tyranny

Giant by George Stevens( Visual )

25 editions published between 1956 and 2020 in English and Chinese and held by 2,178 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

East of Eden by Elia Kazan( Visual )

26 editions published between 1954 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,937 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

4 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in English and held by 1,930 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

42nd Street by Lloyd Bacon( Visual )

31 editions published between 1933 and 2015 in English and held by 1,869 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Broadway musical director has troubles during rehearsal, but has a sucessful opening night

Yankee Doodle Dandy by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

27 editions published between 1942 and 2019 in English and Spanish and held by 1,807 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A rousing musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan--playwright, entertainer, and composer

A star is born by George Cukor( Visual )

21 editions published between 1954 and 2019 in English and held by 1,738 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Drunken waning movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops which blossoms into romance but tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's plummets

Mildred Pierce by Michael Curtiz( Visual )

15 editions published between 1945 and 2014 in English and held by 1,668 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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