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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. and abbreviated as WB), is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. Founded in 1923 by brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games, and is one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, as well as a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
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Hollywood Flashback: FDR's Virus Battle Inspired 'Sunrise at Campobello' in 1960

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In 1960, Warner Bros. made a virus movie with a happy ending. Sunrise at Campobello tells the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracting polio at age 39, 11 years before becoming the U.S.’ 32nd president in 1932.

It was based on Dore Schary’s 1958 Tony-winning play, which made a star of Ralph Bellamy, who reprised the lead in the film. (The drama also marked the Broadway debut of James Earl Jones.) THR’s film review said "the play was an excellent job and has been improved upon." Bellamy, who died in 1991, said it was about "the indomitability of the human spirit — the courage and will to survive." Dore was Hollywood’s widest-spectrum multihyphenate: playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and president of MGM.

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