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Nov 27, 2005 · There remains Kazan the great adulterous womanizer, with his passion for blondes. ... about a confrontation with the notorious studio head Louis B. Mayer during Kazan's shooting of "The Sea of ...
Louis B. Mayer. Louis Burt Mayer ( / ˈmeɪ.ər /; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884 [3] – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American [1] film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of ...
May 29, 2005 · The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer. By Scott Eyman. Simon & Schuster. 596 pp. $35. ... in which the Mayer figure is drawn as a philistine moneyman and womanizer. Scott Eyman, distinguished ...
Dec 25, 2005 · By the early 1890s, the family had settled in Saint John, New Brunswick, and Lazar’s name had become Louis. Louis B. Mayer would have a brutal childhood, suffering physical and emotional abuse ...
Jul 6, 2005 · In his wonderfully readable biography of Mayer, "Lion of Hollywood," Scott Eyman paints a vivid portrait of Mayer and the studio he ran with blood, bile and singular common sense. "Put on a little ...
May 23, 2012 · After four years of marriage, Lamarr escaped Austria and fled to Paris, where she obtained a divorce and eventually met Louis B. Mayer, the American film producer with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. With ...
Jun 17, 2021 · In a new documentary, she tries to recover her story. When Rita Moreno was sixteen, her mother brought her to the Waldorf-Astoria to meet Louis B. Mayer, the all-powerful head of M-G-M. They were ...