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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.
Sep 18, 2015 · 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 center of MGM’s box-office...
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. He had a brutal childhood, raised in poverty and suffering physical and emotional abuse from his nearly-illiterate peddler father.
Louis Burt Mayer was a Canadian-American 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, directors, and stars in Hollywood.
May 29, 2018 · Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) was one of Hollywood's original "moguls," a movie house pioneer who helped found one of the film industry's most prominent studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 1924 until 1951, Mayer ruled over a vast film empire, producing a string of classic hits and discovering countless stars.
Nov 9, 2011 · Last Edited May 26, 2023. Louis Burt Mayer (born Eliezer Mayer), studio executive (born 12 July 1884 in Dymer, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]; died 29 October 1957 in Los Angeles, California). Louis B. Mayer was one of the first Hollywood movie moguls, and arguably the most powerful.
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...
