TY - BOOK AU - Meyer,William R. TI - Warner Brothers directors: the hard-boiled, the comic, and the weepers SN - 0870003976 AV - PN 1998 M613w 1978 U1 - 791.43/0233/0922 PY - 1978/// CY - New Rochelle, N.Y. PB - Arlington House KW - Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Directores y productores de cine KW - Estados Unidos KW - Productores y directores de películas KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes index; Includes filmographies; Lloyd Bacon Busby Berkeley Curtis Bernhardt Alan Crosland Michael Curtiz Delmer Daves William Dieterle Peter Godfrey Edmund Goulding Howard Hawks John Huston William Keighley Mervyn Leroy Anatole Litvak Jean Negulesco Irving Rapper Vincent Sherman Raoul Walsh William Wellman N2 - The book opens with an overview of studio-era filmmaking at Warner Bros., setting the stage for individual director profiles—starting with versatile craftsman Lloyd Bacon and extravagant musical auteur Busby Berkeley. Over the course of nearly 20 chapters, Meyer explores how each director contributed to Warner Bros.’ identity, blending genre, style, and studio demands ER -