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Also Known As Warner Bros., Inc. • Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. • Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
Date 1923 - present
Headquarters Burbank
Areas Of Involvement film • gangster film • Today in History—October 6: The Jazz Singer Upends the Movie Industry
Related People Tex Avery • Alfred E. Green • Jack Warner • Friz Freleng

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Row of colorful storefront facades on the Warner Brothers studio backlot in Burbank, California, designed to resemble a small-town main street.
Al Jolson as Jakie Rabinowitz embraces Eugenie Besserer as his mother, Sara Rabinowitz, in an emotional scene from the 1927 film The Jazz Singer.
Edward G. Robinson
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Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, in costume, stand close together on the set of Casablanca as a cameraman films them in a dramatic, foggy scene.
Director Nicholas Ray, right, leans in to talk with James Dean, center, and Natalie Wood, left, who sits with a script on the set of Rebel Without a Cause.
Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, and Wilfrid Hyde-White in formal attire ascend a grand staircase at a ball in a scene from the film My Fair Lady (1964).
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The Exorcist
Whoopi Goldberg as Celie in The Color Purple, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and glasses, looks up while holding an open book in a church setting.
See the opening scene of the Warner Brothers cartoon “Porky's Midnight Matinee”
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