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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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Apr 30, 2024 · 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. As the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the largest and most prestigious film studio ...
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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.
Louis B. Mayer Pictures (or Louis B. Mayer Productions) was an American film production company of the silent era which operated from 1918 until 1924. History. Founded by the New England –based theater owner Louis B. Mayer, it functioned as a high-class producer of films for the first-run market.
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.
