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The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was made by Warner Brothers.
* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
Beug was survived by her twin eighteen-year-old daughters Lauren and Lindsey Mayer-Beug, her 13-year-old son, Nick, and her husband, John Beug, a senior vice president in charge of filmed production for Warner Brothers ' record division.
Though the coyote is the basis for the character of Wile E. Coyote in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons, especially about the Road Runner, coyotes have not been known as yet to attack greater roadrunners for prey.
In 1934, he became a reader in the story department at Warner Brothers studio.
Her performance of the song " Embraceable You " impressed Styne and his partner, Sammy Cahn and they recommended her for a role in Romance on the High Seas, which they were working on for Warner Brothers.
She continued to make minor and frequently nostalgic period musicals such as Starlift, The West Point Story, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea For Two for Warner Brothers.
After filming Lucky Me with Phil Silvers and Young at Heart ( both 1954 ) with Frank Sinatra, Day chose not to renew her contract with Warner Brothers.
On March 1, a new message from General Boy was added to the website confirming that the band had indeed once again parted ways with Warner Brothers.
He was able to line up a couple of potential distributors in Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures International even before the film began production.
Before recording, Parsons and Harris played a preliminary three show mini-tour as the headline act in a Warner Brothers country-rock package.
Hawks did not get along with Warner Brothers executive Hal B. Wallis and his contract allowed him to be loaned out to other studios.
Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Paramount, 1931 ), remembered for its use of color filters to create Jekyll's transformation before the camera, Michael Curtiz's Mystery of the Wax Museum ( Warner Brothers, 1933 ), and Island of Lost Souls ( Paramount, 1932 ) were all important horror films.
:: Mostly worked on by Jan from 1966 to 1968 the album was shelved by Warner Brothers for 44 years.
* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.
In 1935, director Ralph Staub staged a revival of the Sennett gang for his Warner Brothers short subject Keystone Hotel, featuring a re-creation of the Kops clutching at their hats, leaping in the air in surprise, running energetically in any direction, and taking extreme pratfalls.
Many of Sennett's films of the early 1920s were inherited by Warner Brothers when Warners merged with the original distributor, First National.
The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was not only the first film with synchronized dialogue, but the first feature film that was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face ;" " Toot, Toot, Tootsie ", " Blue Skies " and " My Mammy ".
In 1928, Warner Brothers followed this up with another Jolson part-talkie, The Singing Fool, which was a blockbuster hit.
In 1947, Brando was asked to do a screen test for Warner Brothers.
* Several pre-1950 talkies were sold to other studios for remakes, among them Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) and Make Me a Star ( 1932 ) to MGM ; The Letter ( 1929 ), A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 ) and One Sunday Afternoon ( 1933 ) to Warner Brothers ; and " The Dance of Life ( 1929 ), The Story of Temple Drake ( 1933 ) and " Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ) to 20th Century Fox.
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As of August 31, 2011, Rush switched their American distribution from Atlantic Records over to the Warner Brothers majority-owned metal label, Roadrunner Records.

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Chuck Jones joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, the independent studio that produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros., in 1933 as an assistant animator.
The feature was produced by UPA, and directed by his former Warner collaborator, Abe Levitow.
Enter the Dragon was the first Chinese martial arts film to have been produced by a major Hollywood studio – Warner Bros. and was produced in association with Golden Harvest and Lee's Concord Production Company.
Although both studios produced " A " and " B " budget pictures, generally the prestige productions, costume dramas, and musicals were made by Warner Bros., while First National specialized in modern comedies, dramas, and crime stories.
Years earlier, working at Warner Bros., Hellinger had produced three films for Raoul Walsh, the proto-noirs They Drive by Night ( 1940 ) and Manpower ( 1941 ), and High Sierra ( 1941 ), now regarded as a key work in noir's development.
The series was produced by Bright / Kauffman / Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television.
In April 1937, he signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., and the same year composed the famous fanfare which introduced pictures produced by the studio, although this is no longer in use ( curiously, this was never used for the studio's television productions ).
* Warner Bros. also owns the rights to several films originally distributed by Paramount that were produced by Lorimar Productions, which was purchased by Warner in 1989.
RCA Victor produced many radio-phonographs and also created RCA Photophone, a sound-on-film system for sound films that competed with William Fox's sound-on-film Movietone and Warner Bros .' sound-on-disc Vitaphone.
In April 1972, the Modern Lovers traveled to Los Angeles where they held two demo sessions: the first was produced by the Velvet Underground's John Cale for Warner Bros. while the second was produced by Alan Mason for A & M.
The feature film was produced in a joint venture between Warner Brothers and Francis Ford Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope.
Sam and Jack Warner produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert Warner and their auditor and now controller Chase handled finance and distribution in New York City.
Through Vitaphone, Warner Bros. produced eight Vitaphone shorts ( which aired at the beginning of every showing of Don Juan across the country ) in 1926, and got many film production companies to question the necessity.
In February 1933 Warner Bros. produced 42nd Street, a very successful musical that saved the company from bankruptcy.
From 1930 to 1933, Disney alumni Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising produced a series of musical cartoons for Leon Schlesinger, who sold the shorts to Warner.
Furthermore, Jack Warner, who had little regard for his company's short film product, reputedly was so ignorant of his animation division that he was mistakenly convinced that the unit produced cartoons of Mickey Mouse, rival company Walt Disney Pictures ' flagship character.
Harry Warner produced the successful anti-German film The Life of Emile Zola ( 1937 ).
Having completed a 3D Bugs Bunny cartoon, Lumber Jack-Rabbit, Jack Warner ordered the animation unit to be shut down, erroneously believing that all cartoons hence would be produced in the 3D process.
Some programming produced by Cartoon Network Studios has also been broadcast on the now-defunct Kids ' WB, another Time Warner property.
During part of the 1960s, the shorts were produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises after Warner Bros. shut down their animation studios.

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