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should spend the rest of their lives."

He said, "Try Alaska."

Of course, I don't know whether

he spoke to the Jews about that...

...but that was one of his suggestions.

Jack also found himself

wrestling with postwar problems.

The Cold War brought with it...

...a congressional committee that

spent years investigating Hollywood...

...for possible communistic

and subversive activities.

And I am happy to have had the opportunity

to testify.

If you want, you can do it over.

Yeah, I blew it.

"Ideology "term--

Ideological terms, rather--

Termites have burrowed into many American

industries, organizations and societies.

Wherever they may be, I say

let us dig them out and get rid of them.

My brothers and I will be happy to subscribe

generously to a pest-removal fund.

We are willing to establish such a fund

to ship to Russia...

...the people who don't like

our American system of government...

...and prefer the communistic system

to ours.

I believe that there is definitely

an anti-Semitic component...

...to the House Committee of Un-American

Activities. I really believe that.

If you look at people called to testify...

...people who are accused

of having communist sympathies...

...or they've been to communist meetings

or if they're socialists...

...there seems to be a preponderant

number of Jews.

For many of the HUAC investigators...

...anti-Semitism, communism

and anti-fascism...

...were all part and parcel

of the same thing.

People who had been part of the anti-fascist

movement in the'30s and early'40s...

...were immediately accused

of also being communists.

He never felt that he had any Writer...

...in his studio, on the lot...

...Who was Writing subversive material,

Whereas Jack wasn't so sure.

So there was a split between

the two of them almost immediately...

...during this period of the picture business

being attacked.

During this time,

Harry is quoted as saying:

"If my own brother were a communist,

I'd drag him down to the FBI."

But it's unclear whether that says more

about his feelings for Jack...

... than his feelings for communists.

J. L. and Harry Warner, they don't--

There' s problems there.

You know, that's all I ever heard.

You remember him taking lunch

at a different time than Jack?

He went usually earlier than Jack, yeah.

He Would go, I think, around noon

Whereas Jack Wouldn't come by--

Because he had to go by our office

to go to the private dining room...

...so I would see him every day.

He would maybe go, like, 1 and 2:00

and he would miss Mr. Warner, of course...

...and he very seldom came in the office.

There was so much anger going on...

...between he and Jack

and his illness would--

I said the same thing.

--be exacerbated by some meeting

at the studio, and--

You know, and then he would come home

and you could see the veins in his neck.

- So that was from meetings with Jack?

- Oh, yeah.

I'm sure.

I didn't put it quite as strongly,

but that's What I said too.

The role that Albert played was

keeping peace between the two brothers.

I don't think people really understand...

...how Jack and Harry

just did not get along.

And anything Jack did,

Harry was furious about...

...and I'm not so sure, but

I understand he had quite a temper...

...and Jack always thought

that he was the Warner Bros.

- Walt and my dad had a five-year fight.

- Really?

They didn't speak.

Walt sort of Wanted to be king,

you know?

They finally resolved it semi-amicably.

It was-- It was brutal.

My father Worked at the studio...

...and he ended up being the referee

between Jack and Harry.

And then I'd go to the lot with him

on Saturday...

...and I'd see this booming factory

of creativity going on...

...and yet I was hearing these stories

about these guys chasing each other...

...wanting to kill each other.

I mean, literally, my dad had to stop

my grandfather from killing Jack with a--

Yeah, With a lead pipe.

- Really?

- And people have witnessed, you know--

Only brothers, I think.

I used to say that about Walt and Dad too.

Only brothers could fight like that.

Anybody else would have said,

"Walt, I'm through with this deal.

- I'm going into some other business."

- Yeah, yeah.

- Extraordinary.

- But the blood was important.

The struggles with Jack

were taking its toll.

Harry's health was deteriorating...

...and the family was encouraging him

to retire...

...against his wish to stay in the game.

When they did receive an offer,

Jack and Abe were ready to sell.

Harry had not Wanted to sell the studio...

...and Jack insisted this

was a good price, a good time...

...it was time for them to get out of it

and so on.

He had argued and argued and argued

with Harry and Harry finally said, "Okay."

Jack sold it to Semenenko...

...who was head of the Bank of Boston

at that time.

Semenenko had it for one day...

...and sold it back to Jack without

Harry's involvement, which is a-- Wow.

As far as I know,

we all tendered our stock.

Jack made a horrible deal for the family.

That a brother would do that

to another brother...

...after being in business all those years,

and the business having been run...

...and survives because of

the older brother's business acuity and--

And somewhat Sam Warner too.

And without Sam's invention,

nothing, forget it.

If Jack and Ann had been hard up

and, you know, needed money, you know...

...there might've been-- Not an excuse

for it, but some rationale to it.

But Jack was a very rich man

with more houses and villas...

...and things than you could count

on both hands.

He didn't need it.

I mean, he just didn't need it.

And it was just a dirty trick.

And that was the betrayal

to end all betrayals.

Albert couldn't stop talking

about that to me.

About what a son of a b*tch Jack was,

how he could have done it.

He couldn't believe he was

his brother at any time.

And at that point...

...Albert, Major, never spoke,

as far as I know, to Jack again, ever.

Mr. Warner just had a fit.

You Want me to tell you

What he said?

"Over my dead body will

he be president of this company."

But he actually was...

...and Mr. Warner found out then

that he couldn't do anything about it.

And that really hurt him, you know,

he was so broken up.

And I felt so sorry for him

when he went to leave.

He came over and shook my hand

and he said, "I'm gonna leave now."

And I said,

"Well, you'll come back, won't you?"

He said, "I'll never put foot

in this lot again."

I said, "Yes, you Will."

He said, "No, I Won't."

And I don't think he ever did.

Now, greatness returns to the screen.

Yahoo!

I guess you're about the best-looking gal

We've seen around here in a long time.

The star who became a legend,

who spoke for all the restless young...

...as no one has before or since.

Why, thank you, Jett.

That's a very nice compliment.

And I'm gonna tell my husband

I've met with your approval.

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