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hated Jack Warner even more than
avis did) and the chef de snarls,
Edward G. Robinson.
Add, a little later, John Garfield
and (subverting machismo while using
it, as John Barrymore had before)
young Marlon Brando and young-for-
ever James Dean.
Jack Warner, creative boss during
the long golden age, was an oily-smil-
ng, combative man prone to bad
jokes, a tyrant with touches of taste
and keen box-office antennae. The
actors in front of his cameras were
often tough, yet perhaps less so than
the directors Warner favored and
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Jack Warner with Marilyn Monroe.
pestered — John Ford, Howard
Hawks, William Wyler, John Huston,
Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley, Raoul
Walsh, Mervyn LeRoy and William
Wellman, plus sturdy hacks like Irving
Rapper.
Behind them, chasing budgets and
curdling egos, were the tough execu-
tives like Hal Wallis, Henry Blanke
and (during the early talkies) Darryl F.
Zanuck.-
Warner Bros., small in the silent
era, became the lippy, urban and liber-
al studio of the '30s. Jack Warner was
the one mogul to strongly support
FDR, though he lost his nerve to the
anti-Red witch hunters. His movies
exploited and gave a slam of style to
current themes like gangsters and wild
boys and chain gangs; used (and
spread) popular jargon; and perfected
the B and sub-A action and adventure
enres that made most of his male
stars dependably popular.
James Silke, in his enjoyable WB
salute, Here's Looking at You, Kid,
writes that the Warners protagonist
"could smell poison on a broken shot
glass, perform an appendectomy with
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