Greed
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Believe it or not, snake supremo Louis B. Mayer went all the way to Washington to delay Schenck's sale. Using his deep pockets and powerful connections, Mayer managed to convince the literal Justice Department itself to stall the agreement by looking into supposed shady dealings.
Oct 17, 2017 · Long before Weinstein there was Louis B. Mayer, who co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1924. Mayer, the ground zero of this kind of abuse, had means, motive, opportunity and that...
Oct 16, 2017 · Studio head Louis B. Mayer “terrorized Hollywood’s women long before Harvey Weinstein,” according to a recent headline in the UK’s Telegraph. Mayer would direct a 16-year-old Judy Garland...
Jan 23, 2018 · Judy Garland also reported being groped by Louis B. Mayer on set when she was still a teenager. Stars and studio employees had plenty of other opportunities for sordid behavior.
He was controversial for his treatment of the actors under his management, demanding compliance from female stars by threatening their livelihoods, such as in the case of Judy Garland, whom he forced to go on diets, take drugs, and work punishing schedules. [5]
Oct 10, 2017 · One of the worst offenders was Louis B Mayer, a self-made man who co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – or MGM – studios and reinvented filmmaking in the process. At its peak, MGM employed 6,000...
Nov 14, 2017 · In his 2009 biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, Clarke wrote about how expecting sex from the “female help” was considered an unspoken “perk of power” for Mayer.
Mar 19, 1993 · When a drunken Clark Gable drove around a curve too fast one day in 1933 and struck a pedestrian, killing her instantly, Mayer actually got an MGM executive to take the rap.
Nov 27, 2005 · There remains Kazan the great adulterous womanizer, with his passion for blondes. From the semiautobiographical novel "The Arrangement," Schickel quotes, "Being Greek, blondness is my fetish."
Dec 7, 1998 · He took his responsibility for American values so seriously that when Rooney, a precocious womanizer and partygoer, got out of hand, L.B. was overheard screaming at him, “You’re Andy Hardy ...
