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    Louis B. Mayer

    Canadian-American film producer

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  1. 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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    • July 12, 1884
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    • October 29, 1957
  2. 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 ...

  3. Apr 30, 2024 · Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American businessman who, for nearly 30 years, was the most powerful motion-picture executive in Hollywood. As head of the prestigious film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he created the star system of the 1920s and ’30s and had under contract the outstanding screen personalities of the day.

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  4. 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.

    • Additional Crew, Producer, Actor
    • October 29, 1957
    • July 12, 1884
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  6. One of the legendary moguls of Hollywood's Golden Age, Louis B. Mayer rose from the immigrant son of a junkman to the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer beginning with the company's inception in 1924 to his ouster in 1951. It was Mayer who helped to establish the studio's reputation as a glamorous...

  7. Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir in the Russian Empire; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM).

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