biography
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Warner, Jack
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originally Jack Leonard Eichelbaum
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1978)
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| biography:
| Film mogul, born in London, Ontario, SE Canada. In partnership with his older brothers Harry (1881–1958), Albert (1884–1967), and Sam (1887–1927), after a period in film exhibition and distribution, he moved into production and set up studios in 1923. The Warners were the first to introduce sound into their films, and the success of The Jazz Singer (1927) led to great expansion in both cinema ownership and studio resources, until the US Anti-trust Laws in the 1950s forced them to dispose of their theatres. Jack had always been the one most directly concerned with actual film creation, and he continued to supervise major productions such as My Fair Lady (1964) and Camelot (1967), but when he became the last surviving brother, he sold his interest and the name to the Canadian company, Seven Arts. |
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