Warner Brothers Interview with grand daughter Cass Warner

Published 18 months ago

The Warner Brothers -- Harry M. Warner, Albert Warner, and Sam Warner, founded Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. in 1923. They released the first motion picture with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson. In the 1930s they gave... more

The Warner Brothers -- Harry M. Warner, Albert Warner, and Sam Warner, founded Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. in 1923. They released the first motion picture with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson. In the 1930s they gave employment to a parade of stars, including Bette Davis, Errol Flynn and Paul Muni, as well as James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and a man whose star would eventually rise in the 1940s, Humphrey Bogart. Decades later, the firm's successor, Warner Communications Inc., merged with Time Inc. to become Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media and entertainment company. This fall, Icons Radio Hour is pleased to welcome Harry Warner's grand daughter Cass Warner to discuss her famous family. less

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