Top 20 Jacks. No.7- Jack Warner
“I have a theory of relatives, too. Don’t hire ‘em.”
“You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn’t win an award for playing yourself.”
“I’ve got America’s best writer for $300 a week.”
Some ticket buyers think they don’t like Jews.”
Career:
Worked in brother Harry’s shoe repair store in Baltimore; 1905—sang illustrated song slides in nickelodeons; with brothers opened Le Bijou nickelodeon in Pittsburgh; 1906—formed the Duquesne Amusement Supply Company; opened production studios in St. Louis and Santa Paula, California; 1917—My Four Years in Germany established Jack as a major producer; 1918—took sole charge of Warner Bros. Hollywood operation; controlled the studio until 1967, then independent producer
Awards:
Academy Awards for The Life of Emile Zola, 1937; Casablanca, 1943, and My Fair Lady, 1964; Irving Thalberg Award, 1958; US Medal of Merit; Order of British Empire. Died: Of heart disease in Los Angeles, California, 9 September 1978.
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