Jack Warner Articles

Ann Dvorak, Three on a Match publicity shot Ann Dvorak Pt.4: Warner Bros. Co-Stars, THREE ON A MATCH, Later Years What about Ann Dvorak's relationship with Warner Bros. boss Jack Warner? I think Jack Warner was fond of Ann and had a great deal of faith in her abilities as a dramatic actress. After Howard Hawks brought her to Warner Bros. for The Crowd Roars, [...]

Biggest Oscar Snubs #9b: Steven Spielberg Shocked When Not Nominated for JAWS Great singing in the clip above, huh? Well, that's probably why Audrey Hepburn didn't get a best actress Academy Award nomination for My Fair Lady. Hepburn's landing the role of Eliza Doolittle in Warner Bros.' 1964 film version of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady sparked a major outcry because [...]

Ken Annakin, best remembered for directing the big-budget 1965 adventure comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, died of natural causes on Wednesday, April 22, at his home in Beverly Hills. He had suffered a stroke and a heart attack in February, and had been in poor health since. Like fellow British filmmaker Jack Cardiff, who also died on April 22, Annakin was 94. [...]

Miriam Hopkins: Allan Ellenberger Interview Part I I understand that Miriam Hopkins turned down a large number of parts. Could you name a few of those? And was there anything she felt sorry she missed out on — any part she rejected but then came to regret her decision, or any part she wanted to play but lost out to someone else? [Photo: One role [...]