Casablanca
Warner Bros Pictures is one of the most famous movie studios in the world... and this year it is celebrating its ninetieth birthday.
Warner Bros Studios was founded back in 1918 by Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner, but it wasn't until 1923 that Warner Brothers Picture Incorporated was born.
But it was a bumpy start to Warner Brothers Picture Incorporated as the brother bumped heads over the use of sound in film; Sam wanted the studio to start making talkies while Harry opposed it.
By 1926 the studio was struggling financially until they release The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, and the era of the talking picture really did begin.
The Warner Brothers did have to face personal tragedy as Sam died in 1927. But the studio flourished during the second half of the twenties with the likes of The Singing Fool bringing more success.
The turn of the thirties saw a change in what audiences wanted as they turned their back on musicals.
So Warner Bros moved with the times as they released gangster movies Little Caesar, The Public Enemy and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang were all big successes.
The thirties ushered in another new era for the studio with the birth of Warner's cartoons and the first of the Looney Tunes cartoons were made.
Sinkin' in the Bathtub was released back in the 1930s and a worldwide franchise was born.
During the World War II Warner were behind a series of anti German films such as The Life of Emile Zola and Confessions of a Nazi Spy.
Casablanca was another of the movies that was made during this period with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
The movie did go on to win the Best Picture Oscar but it didn't really set the box office alight. Seventy years on and Casablanca is one of the most iconic and celebrated movies of all time.
The fifties and sixties were a golden era for Warner Bros and they were behind movies such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Giant, Mister Roberts, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Nun's Story, My Fair Lady and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; all of which were nominated or won the Best Picture Oscar.
Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood including Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor were starring in Warner Bros movies.
Today Warner Bros is still one of the greatest Hollywood Studios making some of the biggest movies and working with some of the industry's most famous stars.
Warner Bros has been behind the Harry Potter franchise; which has gone on to become the biggest and most successful movie franchise of all time.
In the last twelve months alone with have see Warner co-produce The Dark Knight Rises, Argo, The Great Gatsby and Man of Steel.
Warner Bros have faced trial and tribulations and well as awards and successes during ninety years but the studio has become a staple of Hollywood... long may it continue.
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