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Aug 24, 2011 · Film King Louis B. Mayer Was The Gem At MGM. The 23-year-old Boston scrap metal dealer was depressed. His family had immigrated from the Ukraine and settled in St. John, New Brunswick, when he was ...
Jul 10, 2005 · LION OF HOLLYWOOD The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer. By Scott Eyman. Illustrated. 596 pp. Simon & Schuster. $35. THE film critic Otis Ferguson once said, "Hollywood is a state of mind -- but ...
Louis B. Mayer was born Lazar Meir in Dymer, a town in the Ukraine some 25 miles north of Kiev, on July 12, 1884. In later years, he would change his birthday to July 4 to emphasize his patriotism and distance himself from his foreign roots.
Jun 23, 2008 · Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age.An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood.
Los Angeles, Califórnia. Louis Burt Mayer, nascido Lazar Meir (Dymer, 12 de julho de 1884 — Los Angeles, 29 de outubro de 1957) foi um produtor de cinema estadunidense nascido na Ucrânia, conhecido como um dos fundadores do famoso estúdio de Hollywood Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Ele é geralmente citado como o criador do "sistema estrelar"- um ...
Louis Burt Mayer was a Belarus-born American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the “star system” within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B. Mayer and often simply as “L.B.”, he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had “more stars than there are in ...
Mar 5, 2022 · By 1918, under the shingle Louis B. Mayer Productions, he had followed the smart money out to Hollywood and was off and running. MGM’s Louis B. Mayer in his office in a 1940s era image.
