When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939

• Main Author: Shingler, Martin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Screen Industries and Performance
• Subjects: Motion pictures-United States.; Motion picture acting.; Motion pictures-History.; Theater.; United States-Study and teaching.; American Cinema and TV.; Screen Performance.; Film History.; Theatre and Performance Studies.; American Culture.

This book offers a different take on the early history of Warner Bros., the studio renowned for introducing talking pictures and developing the gangster film and backstage musical comedy. The focus here is on the studio's sustained commitment to produce films based on stage plays. This led to t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. A Warner Bros. Story Retold
• 2. Broadway on Film: The Gold Diggers (Beaumont 1923)
• 3. Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle (1924)
• 4. The Best of Broadway at Warner Bros., 1924 to 1929
• 5. The George Arliss Star Company at Warners, 1929-1933
• 6. Broadway on a Budget: Gold Diggers of 1933 (LeRoy) and Lilly Turner (Wellman 1933)
• 7. The Petrified Forest: A Drama for Broadway and Hollywood, 1935-1936
• 8. Warners' Prestige Drama Queen: Bette Davis, 1937-1939
• 9. Reviewing Warners' Production of Broadway-based Prestige Pictures of the Twenties and Thirties.