Cass Warner Talks The Legacy of The Warners at The Studio’s 90th Anniversary

Warner Bros. is celebrating 90 years of epic movies, TV series, cartoons and more. At the opening night of The Burbank Film Festival (inside the famous studio lot) we interviewed Cass Warner, Harry M. Warner’s granddaughter. She told us about her documentary The Brothers Warner (she wrote, directed and produced), if Hollywood today could learn something from the brothers, and her favorite Warner Bros. film.

“This is the inside story of the little known major player in the Warner Bros. studio legend, Harry Warner, honest Abe, visionary Sam, and volatile Jack – the original Hollywood independent filmmakers. This close-knit band of brothers was the first to use mass media to “educate, entertain, and enlighten”.

Their legendary scrappy rise from nothing, their overcoming of personal tragedies, and their battles are all woven together with the times they lived in. From opening their first storefront theater by hanging a sheet on the wall and borrowing chairs from a funeral parlor to creating one of the top studios in America – four brothers built an empire on a dream and revolutionized Hollywood creating the first major studio with a social conscience.”