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List Of Warner Bros. Films (1940–1949)
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1940–1949. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions. See also * List of New Line Cinema films * List of films based on DC Comics * List of Warner Bros. theatrical animated feature films * :Lists of films by studio References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Warner Bros. Films Lists of Warner Bros. films Warner Bros. films Warner Bros Warner Bros. Enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Founded in 1923 by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games and is one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, as well as a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division the Warner Bros. Pictures Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, the Warner Animation Group, Castle Rock Entertainment, and DC Studios. Among its other assets, stands the television production company Warner Bros. Television Studios. Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Ben Hardaway, Chuck Jones, Bob Givens and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday's Children (1940 Film)
''Saturday's Children'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring John Garfield, Anne Shirley, and Claude Rains. It is a third-time remake of the original Maxwell Anderson play with a previous version released in 1935 under the title '' Maybe It's Love''. Plot Twenty-two-year-old Bobby Halevy (Anne Shirley) falls in love with her fellow employee, Rims Rosson (John Garfield). Rosson is an idealistic dreamer and would-be inventor whose get-rich scheme is going off to Manila to turn hemp into silk. Their romance flourishes until Bobby is talked into tricking Rims into marriage. Living poor and on the verge of breaking up, the couple realizes that there is more to life than having a lot of money. Cast * John Garfield as Rims Rosson * Anne Shirley as Bobby Halevy * Claude Rains as Mr. Halevy * Lee Patrick as Florrie Sands * George Tobias as Herbie Smith * Roscoe Karns as Willie Sands * Dennie Moore as Gertrude Mills * Elizabeth Risdon as Mrs. Halevy * Berto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies Must Live (1940 Film)
''Ladies Must Live'' is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane and Lee Patrick.Bubbeo p.135 It is a B movie produced by the major Hollywood studio Warner Brothers. The film's sets were designed by the art director Esdras Hartley. Cast * Wayne Morris as Corey Lake * Rosemary Lane as Pat Halliday * Lee Patrick as Mary Larrabee * Roscoe Karns as Pete H. "Pighead" Larrabee * George Reeves as George Halliday * Ferris Taylor as Paul Halliday * Lottie Williams as Mrs. Laura Halliday * William Hopper as Joe Barton * Cliff Saum as Chief Thunderbird, Corey's Indian Valet * Billy Dawson as Tommy "Tom" * Mildred Gover as Lettie, Pat's maid * Margaret Hayes as Chorus girl * Mildred Coles as Chorus girl * Phyllis Hamilton as Hat check girl * Wendell Niles as Radio commentator ''(voice)'' * Leo White Leo White (November 10, 1882 – September 20, 1948), Leo Weiss, was a German-born British-American f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Love Came Back
''My Love Came Back'' is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Olivia de Havilland, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, and Jane Wyman. Based on the 1935 Austrian film ''Episode'' written and directed by Walter Reisch, the film is about a gifted young violinist who considers leaving a prestigious music academy to play in a jazz band to earn money. The academy's new president—a distinguished wealthy patron of the arts—convinces her to stay after secretly arranging a scholarship for her out of his own pocket, and the two begin attending concerts together. Complications arise when he asks his young business manager to take his place at one of the concerts. The film is notable for Heinz Eric Roemheld's musical direction and Ray Heindorf's unique swing orchestral arrangements of classical pieces. ''My Love Came Back'' was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on July 13, 1940. Plot A beautiful young violinist named Amelia Cornell (Oliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Oscars is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot. The Best Picture category is often the final award of the night and is widely considered as the most prestigious honor of the ceremony. The Grand Staircase columns at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where the Academy Awards ceremonies have been held since 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception. There have been 581 films nominated for Best Picture and 94 winners. History Category name changes At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: ''Outstanding Picture'' and '' Unique and Artistic P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All This, And Heaven Too
''All This, and Heaven Too'' is a 1940 American drama film made by Warner Bros.-First National Pictures, produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay was adapted by Casey Robinson from the 1938 novel by Rachel Field. The music was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Ernie Haller. The film stars Bette Davis and Charles Boyer with Barbara O'Neil, Jeffrey Lynn, Virginia Weidler, Helen Westley, Walter Hampden, Henry Daniell, Harry Davenport, George Coulouris, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher and June Lockhart. Rachel Field's novel is based on the true story of Field's great-aunt, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French governess who fell in love with the Duc de Praslin, her employer. When Praslin's wife was murdered, Henriette was implicated. It was a real-life scandal that contributed to the political turmoil before the French Revolution of 1848 which deposed France's Louis Philippe I. Plot Mademoiselle Henriette Deluzy-Desporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea Hawk (1940 Film)
''The Sea Hawk'' is a 1940 American adventure film from Warner Bros. that stars Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the launch of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. Its screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The rousing musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold is recognized as a high point in his career. The film was both an adventure and a period piece about Elizabethan England's struggles with Spain. It was also meant as a deliberately pro-British propaganda film to build morale during World War II and to influence the American public into having a more pro-British outlook. King Philip was presented as an allegorical Hitler. (The same theme had been visited in Alexander Korda's film ''Fire Over England'', released three years earlier, before World War II started). Colorized versions of ''The Sea Hawk'' were broadcast on American television and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambling On The High Seas
''Gambling on the High Seas'' is a 1940 American drama film remake of '' Special Agent'' (1935), directed by George Amy and written by Robert E. Kent. The film stars Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland, John Litel, Roger Pryor and Frank Wilcox. The film was released by Warner Bros. on June 22, 1940, as a second feature. Plot A reporter tries to implicate a gambling-ship owner for murder. Cast * Wayne Morris as Jim Carter * Jane Wyman as Laurie Ogden * Gilbert Roland as Greg Morella * John Litel as U.S. District Attorney * Roger Pryor as Max Gates * Frank Wilcox as Stone * Robert Strange as Larry Brill * John Gallaudet as Steve Sterling * Frank Ferguson as City District Attorney * Harry Shannon as Chief of Police * George Reeves as Reporter * George Meader as Secretary to City Attorney * William Pawley as Frank * Murray Alper Murray Alper (January 11, 1904 – November 16, 1984) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous television series, films, and Broadway pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fugitive From Justice
''A Fugitive from Justice'' is a 1940 film starring Roger Pryor (actor), Roger Pryor, Lucile Fairbanks and Eddie Foy Jr. Plot Fugitive Lee Leslie (Don Douglas, Donald Douglas) is wanted by three groups; the police, the gangsters who fear his testimony in court and the insurance company that carries a $1,000,000 policy on him and is anxious to protect its interests by seeing that Leslie stays alive. The company assigns Dan Miller (Roger Pryor (actor), Pryor) and his partner, Ziggy, (Eddie Foy Jr., Foy) to find Leslie. A night club singer, Ruby Patterson (Sheila Bromley) the beneficiary of his will, tips the gangsters as to his whereabouts. He escapes but the gang kidnaps his sister Janet (Lucile Fairbanks, Fairbanks) and his mother (Lottie Williams). His plan to surrender to the police now depends on being able to rescue them first. External links * 1940 films Warner Bros. films American crime drama films American black-and-white films 1940 drama films 1940s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brother Orchid
''Brother Orchid'' is a 1940 American crime/comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern and Humphrey Bogart, with featured performances by Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy and Allen Jenkins. The screenplay was written by Earl Baldwin, with uncredited contributions from Jerry Wald and Richard Macauley, based on a story by Richard Connell originally published in ''Collier's Magazine'' on May 21, 1938. Prior to the creation of the movie version of Connell's story, a stage adaptation was written by playwright/novelist Leo Brady. The script was originally produced at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Plot Crime boss Little John Sarto retires suddenly, giving leadership of his gang to Jack Buck, while he leaves for a tour of Europe to acquire "class". However, Sarto is repeatedly swindled and finally loses all his money. He decides to return home and take back his gang, as if nothing has changed after five years, but Buck has him thrown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
