The Dream Factory: Jack Warner, Jnr

Ham Robbins was gifted, charming, ambitious, extravagant, mean, exploitative, devious, tyrannical, unpredictable, aggressive, demanding, sexually insatiable and utterly ruthless. In the movie business, all of this helped. Born Chaim Rabinowitz, the son of poor Russian immigrants, he got his first projector from a rent-defaulting lodger. Soon he was running nickelodeon shows, then it was Hollywood and his own production company. In a few short years he'd become one of the greatest of all the great studio chiefs in Tinseltown. Here is the explosive story of Movietown and the moguls who dared to play God. The author know whereof he speaks - he is the son of the famous Jack Warner of Warner Brothers Studios.