Albert Warner established the production studio with his brothers Harry, Sam, and Jack L Warner.
27 Facts About Albert Warner
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Albert Warner served as the studio's treasurer, until he sold his stock in 1956.
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Albert Warner was the son of Benjamin "Wonsal" or "Wonskolaser," a shoemaker born in Krasnosielc, and Pearl Leah Eichelbaum, both Polish Jews.
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Albert Warner came to Baltimore, Maryland with his mother and siblings in October 1889 on the steamship Hermann from Bremen, Germany.
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Albert Warner changed the family name to Warner, which was used thereafter.
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In Baltimore, the money Benjamin Albert Warner earned in the shoe repair business was not enough to provide for his growing household.
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Sons Jacob and David Albert Warner were born in London, Ontario.
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In 1896, the family relocated to Youngstown, Ohio, following the lead of Harry Albert Warner, who established a shoe repair shop in the heart of the emerging industrial town.
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Albert Warner stayed in school longer than any his three brothers.
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In 1900, Albert Warner entered Youngstown's Rayen High School, where he served as quarterback for the school's football team.
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Albert Warner eventually dropped out, and in time got a job in Chicago as a salesman for the soap company Swift and Company.
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Harry then sent Sam to New York to purchase and ship films for their Pittsburgh exchange company, while he and Albert Warner remained in Pittsburgh to run the business.
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Albert Warner remained in New York, where he ran the company's distribution and finances.
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At this, Albert Warner convinced Harry not to purchase the screenrights to the hit play Rain.
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In 1925 Sam Albert Warner had acquired a radio station, KWBC.
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Under Albert Warner and his brothers' leadership, the company came to own and operate some 250 theaters to screen its films, and was a successful pioneer of the sound film industry.
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In late 1929, Jack Albert Warner would hire sixty-one-year-old actor George Arliss to star in the studio's film Disraeli.
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Zanuck produced his letter of resignation to Jack Albert Warner, and went on to establish his own company.
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In 1934, Albert Warner officially purchased the Teddington Studio as well.
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Around this time, Albert Warner bought a second mansion in Miami Beach, Florida, where he lived for most of the remaining years of his life.
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Albert Warner read about Jack's dealings while spending time in New York City.
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Albert Warner never spoke to Jack again, but he did later rejoin the company's board of directors to stop Jack "from stealing the stockholders blind".
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Albert Warner died of a stroke in 1967 in Miami Beach.
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Albert Warner was then interred in Brooklyn, next to his first wife Bessie Krieger.
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In 1908, Albert Warner married Bessie Krieger, in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
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Albert Warner was noted as never adopting an upper class lifestyle, remaining unrefined throughout his life.
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In March 1945 Warner purchased Elberton Hill Farm in Harford County, Maryland from G Ray Bryson and his wife, Ella K Bryson.