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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 Howard Hawks: Scarface 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). Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 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.
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Changed death location of Harry Warner from “Hollywood” to “Bel Air, Los Angeles.” Added recent movies. Apr 29, 2026
Add new Web site: Chapman University Digital Commons - The Warner Brothers Prove Their Patriotism (PDF). Nov 25, 2025
Article revised and updated. Dec 01, 2017
Add new Web site: Ohio History Central - Biography of Warner Brothers. Mar 26, 2017
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - American Masters - Warner Brothers. Oct 10, 2012
Add new Web site: Official Site of the Warner Bros. Oct 10, 2012
Add new Web site: h2g2 - Warner Brothers' Wartime Animation. Oct 10, 2012
Images of a marquee advertising The Jazz Singer and of Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar added. May 19, 2010
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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