To introduce a new Friday season of great Warner Brothers pictures, a nostalgic look back at Hollywood's booming 30s. A look back to the days when the pictures were fun; but making them was something else. Recalling the hard work, technical skill and glamour of the era at Warner Brothers, the foremost studio at that time, are: The Stars: Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson, Olivia de Havilland, Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell
The Directors: Busby Berkeley, Mervyn LeRoy, William Wellman
The Writers: Dalton Trumbo, John Bright
And producer Hal Wallis
Warner Brothers practically invented the gangster movie, and pioneered the hard-hitting social dramas like I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. On the lighter side there were the delirious musicals of Busby Berkeley, like Gold Diggers of 1933. Cagney, Bogart and Errol Flynn; Little Caesar, Jezebel and Captain Blood; they are all here.
Narrated by Michael Tolan
Written by RICHARD SCHICKEL Produced by jac venza
An NET production