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    Jack L. Warner

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  1. Jack L. Warner. Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner; [1] August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanned over 55 years, surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls.

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  2. Apr 3, 1995 · L.A. Times Archives. April 3, 1995 12 AM PT. From Times Staff and Wire Reports. Jack Warner Jr., son of legendary Warner Bros. studio co-founder Jack L. Warner, has died, it was learned Sunday. He ...

  3. Jack L. Warner. Producer: My Fair Lady. With his brothers Harry M. Warner, Albert Warner, and Sam Warner, he founded Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. in 1923. They released the first motion picture with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson. In the 1930s they gave employment to a parade of stars, including Bette Davis, Errol Flynn and Paul Muni, as well as James Cagney, Edward G ...

    • August 2, 1892
    • September 9, 1978
  4. Jack was born on August 2, 1892, in London, Ontario, to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant couple from Poland. His father, Benjamin Warner, was a Polish cobbler. His mother was the former Pearl Leah Eichelbaum. Jack and his eldest brother, Hirsch (later Harry), were two of the surviving children of their parents.

  5. Jack L. Warner was born in London, Ontario, on August 2, 1892, the ninth and youngest boy of the 12 Warner children. His Polish parents, Benjamin and Pearl Eichelbaum, emigrated from Poland in 1890 to live in Canada for a time before moving in 1894 to Youngstown, Ohio. Jack, whose original surname was Jacob, and his three brothers, Harry ...

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  7. April 16, 1955. ^ Jack M. Warner's stepmother Ann Page (1908–1990) was a former actress also known as Ann Boyar, and she was the child of Russian Jewish immigrants. She already had a daughter, Joy, when she married Jack L. Warner in 1935, although she and Warner later had a daughter of their own, Barbara, who was Jack M. Warner's stepsister.

  8. Aug 20, 2020 · By the way, $47.5 million in 1990 is equal to $93 million today. Then, just a few months ago, on February 12, 2020, Geffen sold the Jack Warner Estate to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for $165 million ...