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03072aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 B55AE638840811E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170513t20182018enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2017944162 020 $a 1137406577 020 $a 9781137406576 035 $a (OCoLC)987282741 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d YDX $d CDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d ERASP $d OCLCA $d W2U $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ca 050 4 $a PN1993.5.U65 $b S525 2018 082 04 $a 791.4309794/94 $2 23 100 1 $a Shingler, Martin, $d 1965- $e author. 245 10 $a When Warner brought Broadway to Hollywood 1923-1939 / $c Martin Shingler. 264 1 $a London : $b Palgrave Macmillan , $c [2018] 300 $a x, 237 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 22 cm. 490 0 $a Palgrave studies in screen industries and performance 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a 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. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $g 9. $t Reviewing Warners' Production of Broadway-Based Prestige Pictures of the 1920s and 1930s. $g 2. $t Broadway on Film: The Gold Diggers (Beaumont 1923) -- $g 3. $t Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924) -- $g 4. $t The Best of Broadway at Warner Bros., 1924 -- 1929 -- $g 5. $t The George Arliss Star Company at Warners, 1929 -- 1933 -- $g 6. $t Broadway on a Budget: Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy 1933) and Lilly Turner (Wellman 1933) -- $g 7. $t The Petrified Forest: A Drama for Broadway and Hollywood, 1935 -- 1936 -- $g 8. $t Warners' Prestige Drama Queen: Bette Davis, 1937 -- 1939 -- $g 9. $t Reviewing Warners' Production of Broadway-Based Prestige Pictures of the 1920s and 1930s. 610 20 $a Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) $x History. 610 27 $a Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00511641 650 0 $a Motion picture studios $z Los Angeles $z Los Angeles $x History. 650 7 $a Motion picture studios. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027256 651 7 $a California $z Los Angeles. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204540 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212012333.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B55AE638840811E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search