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The introduction frames narratives as shared human patterns that later found new life through technology and audiences. It presents the four Warner brothers as character-driven forces—team bonds, rivalries, and moral ambiguity—showing how their influences extended from star personas to enduring dreams and cultural expectations.","WARNER BROS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nJames Cagney, 1938—part dancer, part boxer; from wisecrack to break your face—the essential  \nWarners actor and the sweetest guy on the lot  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWarner Bros  \nThe Making of an American Movie Studio  \nDAVID THOMSON  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2017 by David Thomson.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nThis book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers.  \nYale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educational, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-mail [sales.press@yale.edu](sales.press@yale.edu) ([U.S. office](U.S. office)) or [sales@yaleup.co.uk](sales@yaleup.co.uk) ([U.K. office](U.K. office)).  \nSet in Janson Oldstyle type by Integrated Publishing Solutions.  \nPrinted in the United States of America.  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2016956162  \nISBN 978-0-300-19760-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) eISBN: 978-0-300-23133-5  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nThis paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992  \n(Permanence of Paper) .  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Sam Hamm, who gave Warner Bros a boost in its declining years For Michael Barker, who did the same for me For Chuck Jones—“What’s up, Doc?”—who treated us all  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \n1. An Introduction: Families and Stories  \n2. The Greatest Moment?  \n3. What Are Brothers For?  \n4. Family Dinner  \n5. Mustache  \n6. For Liberty?  \n7. Rinty  \n8. Mama, Darlin’  \n9. Now  \n10. My Forgotten Man  \n11. Be Somebody  \n12. Bette v. Everyone  \n13. Contracts and Company  \n14. Unafraid?  \n15. Bogart  \n16. After the War, Before the End  \n17. Jacob’s Ladder  \nNotes Acknowledgments Credits Index  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nAn Introduction: Families and Stories  \nFAMILIES ARE ALIKE, whatever they say. They start to talk, to gossip or complain, and soon that turns into stories; we have to do that much, or sit there in silence. The narratives that spring up want to be unique and personal, but they are leaves from one tree. There are only a few stories if we regard them as shapes made out of possibility, rites of fear and desire. This condition lasted mankind from the cave to the cabin, but then story itself took flight. A few families broke into the business of enacting those stories for strangers—audiences who might be far away, but the new technology reached them. The stories existed as coiled celluloid, waiting tobe freed by light. This one family, the Warners, helped create that business and left us believing that their stories were our fables and dreams, and not just their money and their made-up name.  \nThis book is called Warner Bros, but if anyone asks, you’re going to say you’re reading “Warner Brothers.” You don’t quite know how to say“Warner Bros.” That logo seems awkward or compacted in the mouth. This is not a trivial distinction between sound and print, family and business identity. They didn’t call themselves Paramount or Universal or Columbia, names from out of the clouds. No, they said theirs was a family show, just the brothers, one for all and all for one.  \nThere really were four Warner brothers, and if Albert was a sleeping or sleepy partner, Harry, Sam, and Jack are genuine characters. Sam takes an early hit for the team, and that makes him a beloved hero, but Harry and Jack carry the load of lifelong rivalry, like Karamazov brothers, vectors to build a story arc on. They fall into unthinking opposition. Why do we have siblings? they wonder—So there’s someone close to us who is not us?  \nJack wins this fraternal struggle—you’ll guess that early on, so no suspense is spoiled. But so many of his victories feel like d","cbCaip9X4hePxbUR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip9X4hePxbUR","pdf",2542381,1,200,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## An Introduction: Families and Stories\n## The Greatest Moment?\n## What Are Brothers For?\n## Family Dinner\n## Mustache\n## For Liberty?\n## Rinty\n## Mama, Darlin’\n## Now\n## My Forgotten Man\n## Be Somebody\n## Bette v. 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