Celebrate 100 years of Warner Bros. history with a former WB archivist and PR executive. Interactive class discussion will focus on its studio lots in Hollywood and Burbank, rich with lore and history from its lavish gardens, star bungalows (from Bette Davis to Clint Eastwood) to offices for today’s executives. Explore the contributions of the actual Warner brothers and production heads like Darryl Zanuck and Hal Wallis. We will watch two of its best from that era: Casablanca (Bogart and Bacall) celebrating its 80th anniversary and They Died with Their Boots On (Errol Flynn). Finally, we will study two films from 1991: Oliver Stone’s JFK and its talents reflective of latterday WB, and the retrospective You Must Remember This celebrating WB reclaiming its lot.
