Sentences with phrase «studio head jack»

This heartbreaking musical remake of William Wellman's 1937 Hollywood melodrama starring Fredric March and Janet Gaynor (remade a third time in 1976 by Frank Pierson, with Babs Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), is here finally restored to its full length (casual viewers should be aware of the photo - still / audio tape reconstruction of one major sequence - after impatient studio head Jack Warner removed almost 30 minutes from its original running time back in 1954, cutting two whole numbers by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin).

Bogart's face actually isn't seen until the movie is half over (a fact that reportedly distressed studio head Jack Warner as he envisioned box office losses), but the picture never loses its edge, with Vincent's plight (his run - ins with various suspicious characters never hurt for suspense), Bacall's anchoring performance, and the San Francisco location shooting overcoming a rather slender mystery.

During the 1940s, Hale showed up in such Warner Bros. productions as Larceny Inc (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Casablanca (1943); this was due to the largess of studio head Jack Warner, who kept such faded silent favorites as Hale, Monte Blue and Leo White on permanent call.

Not exact matches

The late unlamented Jack Valenti tried this and got handed his head by the independent studios like Summit.