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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 leading writers ...
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Louis B. Mayer. Mayer was born Lazar Meir in the Ukraine and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after his parents fled Russian oppression in 1886. He had a brutal childhood, raised in poverty and suffering physical and emotional abuse from his nearly-illiterate peddler father. In the early 1890s, he changed his name to Louis and ...
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Louis B. Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in California, witness in the trial today at the Los Angeles Federal Bldg. President Calvin Coolidge with Russian born film producer Louis B. Mayer on the MGM lot in Los Angeles, 19th February 1930.
Apr 30, 2024 · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. Louis B. Mayer (born July 12, 1884, Dymer, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine)—died October 29, 1957, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a Russian-born American businessman who, for nearly 30 years, was the most powerful motion-picture executive in Hollywood.
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Louis B. Mayer. Producer: The Great Secret. Mayer was born Lazar Meir in the Ukraine and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after his parents fled Russian oppression in 1886.
Sep 18, 2015 · Slate. You Must Remember This. The secret history of Hollywood. Sept. 18 2015 8:26 AM. The Boy Genius and the “Jewish Hitler” Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer, the tumultuous pair at the...
