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Jack L. Warner
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Producer, Executive Producer Born: August 2, 1892 in London, Ontario, Canada Death: 1978 Biography:One of the longest lived of the legendary Hollywood moguls, Canadian-born "Jack Warner" (of Polish-Jewish extraction) was the youngest of the four Warner brothers (there were 12 children in all) to venture into the movie business in 1905. In 1912 they went into actual film production, and the studio called Warner Bros. was established in the mid 1920s; its initial success was assured two years later with "The Jazz Singer", the first talking picture. The studio developed a reputation during the 1930s as the most "street smart" of the Hollywood organizations, with its gangster films--sparked by a new young discovery named "James Cagney" and, later, "Humphrey Bogart"--and dazzling (yet surprisingly gritty) musicals, most notably "42nd Street" (1933) and its various follow-ups, driven by the choreography of "Busby Berkeley". Warner Bros. was also responsible for several more ambitious films, including... Full Biography
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