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a razor blade, return Richard the Lion-
Hearted to his throne, discover a cure
for syphilis, die with his boots on,
steal 'letters of transit' and give them
up to the man who had stolen his
,
woman.>
He adds that "the women were
even tougher." The Warners women,
not all flighty skirts and gold diggers,
included Davis, Ida Lupino, Joan
Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Mary Astor,
Ann Sheridan, Mae Clark, Marlene
Dietrich, Patricia Neal, Joan Crawford
and the great Hawks/Bogart orchid of
noir, Lauren Bacall. And, in a Jack
Warner bid for added class, Audrey
Hepburn as "My Fair Lady."
Warners had the best gang of sup-
porting players: Peter Lorre, Basil
Rathbone, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan
Jenkins, Alan Hale, Barton MacLane,
Pat O'Brien, Jack Carson, Mary Wick-
es, Elisha Cook Jr., S.Z. Sakall, Aline
MacMahon, Conrad Veidt, Lee
Patrick, Claude Rains, Frank
McHugh.
Rising from Rin Tin Tin, Warner
Bros. opened the noir era with The
Maltese Falcon in 1941, had the most
lasting wartime hits with Casablanca
(1942) and Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942), brought Brando and Dean to

the screen in the '50s, gave Ford (and
John Wayne) the chance for immortal
definition in The Searchers (1956), had
an unexpected hit with The Nun's
Story (1958) and in the '60s per-
formed midwifery for a new era with

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bonnie
and Clyde and The Wild Bunch.
By then, it was a releasing and puff
system, at the mercy of agents and
deals. In 1956, the studio sold its pre-
'505 features, shorts and cartoons.
Harry and Albert Warner sold their
interest that year (Sam had died in the
Jazz Singer year, 1927). Jack Warner
hung on to cash out in 1967, then
died in 1978.
In 1989, the Burbank studio,
founded by grasping dreamers who
sprang up from the nickelodeon trade
became the property of Time Inc. The
resulting name coded the art of the
deal: Time Warner. And the goal
became fewer movies than "events"
with "synergy" of "cross-marketing."
Still, after 75 years, the name on
screen still has the force of a fist:
Warner Bros. EJ

"The -Warners Bros. Story: No
Guts, No Glory" premieres at 8
p.m. Sunday, June 28, on TNT.

'Hih Art

relationship deepens, blurring the lines
Written and directed by first-time
between passion and professionalism.
filmmaker Lisa Cholondenko, and
Says Director Cholodenko: "You
winning rave reviews at the Sun-
know Lucy comes from a very
dance Film Festival, is High Art,
c_\
wealthy background and she has a
opening today at the Landmark
huge trust fund or inheritance to
Main Art Theatre.
support her. And in that way
The film casts
she becomes a more credible
Ally Sheedy as
character, and it also helps
Lucy Berliner, a
explain why Lucy might sort
one-time critics
of be a broken character.
darling making a
"As for her lover Greta, I
reluctant come-
just for some reason had an
back in the art
image of a German woman. c'\
world. A once-cel-
... And Lucy comes from a
ebrated photogra-
family of Holocaust sur-
pher, Lucy lives
vivors, which is alluded to in
with her drug-
her conversation with her
addicted German
mother.
girlfriend named
"So I thought it would be
Greta (Patricia
interesting if her lover were
Clarkson).
Ally Sheedylays the
German, and that was an
The impetus for
daughter of Holocaust
implicit conflict there
Lucy's return to
survivors in "High Art."
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between the mother and the—/
work comes when
lover. Most of the German
she meets her
thing came about because I wanted
downstairs neighbor, Syd, a pretty
to find a way to contrast Lucy's lover
young assistant editor at a prestigious
with Lucy's mother and it just kind
photography magazine, played by
of evolved organically."
Radha Mitchell. As Syd and Lucy's col-
laboration draws them closer, their

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