The Warner Brothers Story
The real story of the Warner Brothers has all the drama of a big screen production -- a rags-to-riches immigrant tale with tension and strife between four brothers, love and marriage, death and divorce, plotting and betrayal.Harry, Sam, Albert and Jack. Their father, Ben, insisted that by sticking together they could succeed and prosper. And stick together they did, until they were separated over the years by the death of one brother and, ultimately, by a shocking betrayal.
Using family letters, interviews and personal recollections, Cass Warner, granddaughter of Harry Warner, along with Cork Millner and Jack Warner, Jr., have shaped a moving biography of this legendary Hollywood family. Written in a cinematic style and weaving-in present-tense voices of still-living family members and former Warner Brothers' associates, HOLLYWOOD BE THY NAME transports readers back to the beginning of the movie era and into the lives of one of Hollywood's most fascinating legends.
"Even though I spent seven years at the studio writing CASABLANCA, SERGEANT YORK and others, I learned things from this book I didn't know and never suspected."
- Howard Koch, screenwriter "Even in a town where fact often reads like lurid fiction, the Warner story remains special .... It's fascinating."
- Charles Champlin, host of CHAMPLIN ON FILM "Not only the definitive story of a team of brothers ... but a real inside look at what this business was built on."
- John Davis, producer, THE FIRM
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