Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957 ; Warner Bros. ( whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA ) moved to Burbank in 1930 ; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989 ; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as " The Lot ".

By 1949, with the success of television threatening the film industry more and more, Harry Warner decided to shift his focus towards television production.

Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ) was the last film Davis made for Warner Bros., after 17 years with the studio

Despite the lackluster box office receipts from her more recent films, in 1949, she negotiated a four-film contract with Warner Bros., which paid $ 10, 285 per week and made her the highest-paid woman in the United States.

Jack Warner refused to allow her script approval, however, and cast her in Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ).

The black-and-white cartoons and the silent films were sold to Guild Films under license of Sunset Productions, which was established by Warners as its television subsidiary in the same manner as Columbia Pictures ' Screen Gems, and the aforementioned 1948 – 1949 color cartoons remained with Warner Brothers ).

by Rex Warner, Penguin, 1949.

* Leon Schlesinger ( 1884 – 1949 ), head of animation at Warner Bros.

It was in 1949 that Warner first played the role for which he would be remembered, PC George Dixon, in the film The Blue Lamp.

Leon Schlesinger ( May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949 ) was an American film producer, most noted for founding Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation.

Clampett left Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1946 and turned his attention to television, creating the famous puppet show Time for Beany in 1949.

* John W. Warner Jr. 1949 — former secretary of the Navy and retired U. S. Senator from Virginia ; for a time, a husband of Elizabeth Taylor.

The film has a few extra-long takes, reminiscent of those that Hitchcock used in Rope ( 1948 ) and Under Capricorn ( 1949 ), both films produced by Hitchcock for Transatlantic Pictures in partnership with Sidney Bernstein and released by Warner Brothers.

Warner Bros. had just bought rights to Hunt's novel Bimini Run when he joined the CIA in October 1949 as a political action specialist, in what came to be called their Special Activities Division.

Castle Wolfenstein was written by Silas Warner ( 1949 – 2004 ).

In 1949, Butler landed a role in a televised puppet show created by former Warner Bros. cartoon director Bob Clampett called Time for Beany.

An undistinguished period followed with Paramount Pictures from 1935 to 1939, but Walsh's career rose to new heights soon after moving to Warner Brothers, with The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ) featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart ; Dark Command ( 1940 ) with John Wayne and Roy Rogers ; They Drive By Night ( 1940 ) with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Bogart ; High Sierra ( 1941 ) with Lupino and Bogart again ; They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ) with Errol Flynn as Custer ; The Strawberry Blonde ( 1941 ) with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland ; Manpower ( 1941 ) with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft ; and White Heat ( 1949 ) with Cagney.

Legal changes also had a major impact on their business — lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s ; Warner Bros. Pictures sold off much of its movie library in 1948 ( although, ironically, Time Warner's 1996 takeover of Turner Broadcasting returned most of the Warner archive to the company ) and, beginning in 1949, anti-trust suits brought by the US government forced the five major studios to divest their cinema chains.

* Under Capricorn ( 1949 ) ( Warner Bros .) ... Milly

Joseph " Joe " Alaskey ( born April 17, 1949 ) is an American actor, comedian, and voice artist, credited as one of the successors of Mel Blanc in impersonating the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Tweety and other characters from Warner Bros. cartoons, such as Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures from 1990-95.

Pop ' im Pop is a 1949 animated Looney Tunes ( reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies with the original Looney Tune ending ) theatrical cartoon short directed by Robert McKimson and released by Warner Bros.

Rabbit of Seville is a 1949 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in 1950.

In 1949, Warner, seeing the threat of television grow, decided to shift his focus towards television production.

She continued to produce films for others, including Sleep, My Love ( 1948 ) with Claudette Colbert and Love Happy ( 1949 ) with the Marx Brothers.

Though the patent was granted in 1947, due to post-war shortages, the game was not officially launched until 1949, when the game was simultaneously licensed to Parker Brothers in the United States for publication, where it was renamed " Clue " along with other minor changes.

The Franciscan Brothers moved their novitiate from Smithtown to the Wyandanch parish in 1949.

The Prout Brothers, Roland and Francis, experimented with catamarans in 1949 and converted their 1935 boat factory in Canvey Island, Essex ( England ), to catamaran production in 1954.

: 1949 edition-Hobart: Davies Brothers.

* The Brothers ( Prestige, 1949 )-with Stan Getz and Al Cohn

After playing for Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, and Benny Goodman, Getz was a soloist with Woody Herman from 1947 to 1949 in " The Second Herd ", and he first gained wide attention as one of the band's saxophonists, who were known collectively as ' The Four Brothers ', the others being Serge Chaloff, Zoot Sims and Herbie Steward.

In March 1949, the Stanley Brothers began recording for Columbia Records.

The racetrack sequences in the Marx Brothers 1937 classic A Day at the Races were filmed there, and The Story of Seabiscuit with Shirley Temple was filmed on location in 1949.

They moved to Palm Springs, California, a few years after the completion of the 1949 film Love Happy, the last movie the Marx Brothers made together under that name.

The Sabri Brothers originally consisted of Ghulam Farid Sabri ( b. 1930 in Kalyana, East Punjab – d. April 5, 1994 in Karachi ; lead vocals, harmonium ), Maqbool Ahmed Sabri ( b. October 12, 1945 in Kalyana – d. September 21, 2011 in South Africa ; lead vocals, harmonium ), Kamal Sabri ( d. 2001 ; vocals, swarmandal ), Mehmood Ghaznavi Sabri ( b. 1949 in Karachi ; vocals, bongo drums, tambourine ), Fazal Islam ( chorus ), Azmat Farid Sabri ( chorus ), Sarwat Farid Sabri ( chorus ), Javed Kamal Sabri ( chorus ), Umer Daraz ( chorus ), Abdul Aziz ( chorus ), Masihuddin ( chorus, tanpura ), Abdul Karim ( dholak ), and Mohammed Anwar ( nal, tabla ).

The character of Madame Lynx was based on Madame Egelichi, the femme fatale spy played by Ilona Massey in the 1949 Marx Brothers movie Love Happy.

Lovett's diaries while he was Under Secretary of State ( 1947 – 1949 ) are available in the Brown Brothers Harriman Collection housed in the manuscripts collection at New-York Historical Society.

: 1949 edition-Hobart: Davies Brothers.

: 1949 edition-Hobart: Davies Brothers.

Her last film role was in 1949, acting in the Marx Brothers ' Love Happy.

: 1949 edition-Hobart: Davies Brothers.

: 1949 edition-Hobart: Davies Brothers.

Sponsors of the TV show included Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer ( 1949 – 50 ), Gulf Oil ( 1953 – 58 ) and Lever Brothers ( 1957 – 58 ).

She wrote the lyrics and music for the Broadway musical Count Me In ( 1942 ) She wrote songs for movies including Champagne Waltz ( 1937 ) and Blockade ( 1938 ) and wrote the scores for movies including the Cowan produced The Story of G. I. Joe ( 1945 ), the film adaptation of the Weill / Nash musical One Touch of Venus ( 1948 ), and the Marx Brothers Love Happy ( 1949 ).

Some of her other films include Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), My Sister and I ( 1948 ), The Fan ( 1949 ), Folly to be Wise ( 1952 ), The March Hare ( 1956 ), Anastasia ( 1956 ), Three Men in a Boat ( 1956 ), The Admirable Crichton ( 1957 ), The Brides of Dracula ( 1960 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), Becket ( 1964 ), The Unsinkable Molly Brown ( 1964 ) and Bunny Lake Is Missing ( 1965 ).