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Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian-American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanned some 45 years, its duration surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls.
As co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, he worked with his brother, Sam Warner, to procure the technology for the film industry's first talking picture. After Sam's death, Jack clashed with his surviving older brothers, Harry and Albert Warner. He assumed exclusive control of the film production company in the 1950s, when he secretly purchased his brothers' shares in the business after convincing them to participate in a joint sale of stocks.
Although Warner was feared by many of his employees and inspired ridicule with his uneven attempts at humor, he earned respect for his shrewd instincts and tough-mindedness. He recruited many of Warner Bros.' top stars and promoted the hard-edged social dramas for which the studio became known. Given to decisiveness, Warner once commented, "If I'm right fifty-one percent of the time, I'm ahead of the game."
Throughout his career, he was viewed as a contradictory and enigmatic figure. Although he was a staunch Republican, Warner encouraged film projects that promoted the agenda of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. He opposed European fascism and criticized Nazi Germany well before America's involvement in World War II. An opponent of Communism, after the war Warner appeared as a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, voluntarily naming screenwriters who had been fired as suspected Communists or sympathizers. Despite his controversial public image, Warner remained a force in the motion picture industry until his retirement in the early 1970s.
Most Popular Jack L. Warner Trailers
Total trailers found: 269
15 January 1948
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold.
15 January 1943
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
25 February 1983
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
22 August 1946
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen.
21 September 1940
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City.
15 May 1937
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
01 December 1964
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
23 January 1937
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods).
16 April 1937
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm.
02 April 1938
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
04 September 1936
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
05 February 1962
An entry in the Bell Science animated film series, on the nature of time.
13 May 1938
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
22 June 1936
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment.
10 April 1937
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
11 July 1936
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
01 January 1943
This patriotic wartime short showcases the service bands of the U.S. Army, Army Air Force, Marines, and Navy.
11 December 1937
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
26 May 1934
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
14 November 1936
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together.
11 November 1939
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
07 September 1946
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926.
31 January 1934
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems.
17 September 1930
A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination.
01 September 1944
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
11 April 1944
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
09 July 1937
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale.
31 January 1945
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
21 March 2006
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
05 April 2005
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
15 June 1940
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run.
20 October 1945
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
02 October 1937
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
09 June 1945
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale.
27 May 1933
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
23 January 1935
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
18 January 1941
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy Danish girl which he barely remembers.
26 November 1938
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
25 May 1944
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
25 December 1937
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff.
05 September 1947
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
20 January 1945
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
06 September 1937
Young Sybil visits her grandfather, a British Colonel stationed at a garrison in India, and she helps negotiate a diplomatic truce between him and the local natives.
15 May 1937
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption.
07 November 1947
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.
24 December 1947
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
26 December 1935
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
05 June 1995
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.
09 October 1935
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
07 April 1948
A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.
21 November 1940
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
12 February 1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands.
24 May 1919
A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.
05 October 1940
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
10 June 1944
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney.
24 December 1948
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
27 August 1937
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy.
16 April 1938
An incognito Hollywood star in Paris meets a penniless nobleman who follows her to London.
04 October 1941
Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry.
23 June 1939
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman.
