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Also Known As Warner Bros. Inc. • Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. • Warner Bros. Entertainment
Date 1923 - present
Areas Of Involvement film • sound film • gangster film
Related People Frank Tashlin • Tex Avery • Alfred E. Green • Mel Blanc • Friz Freleng • Jack Warner

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Warner Brothers Studio lot, Burbank, California
Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer
Edward G. Robinson
Howard Hawks: Scarface
filming of Casablanca
filming of Rebel Without a Cause
My Fair Lady
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Exorcist
Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple
See the opening scene of the Warner Brothers cartoon “Porky's Midnight Matinee”
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