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Oct 11, 2023 · He and John’s mother, Margaret Mayer, an English teacher, divorced in 2009. The former couple are also parents of sons Ben and Carl. John is the baby of the family.
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Mayer was a self-made man in every sense of the word. As actress Ann Rutherford put it, "If anybody on earth ever created himself, Louis B. Mayer did." For one thing, Louis Mayer wasn't even his real name: He was born Lazar Meir in July 1884 in the former Russian Empire. If this sounds like humble beginnings, it was—and his childhood was heartbreak...
Mayer was the epitome of the rigid and terrifying Hollywood studio system. He loved making "discoveries"—he was the man behind screen sirens like Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr, and Norma Shearer—and insisted that hemade the stars. As he once famously said, a star is "carefully and cold-bloodedly built up from nothing, from nobody." Flickr
In front of his staff, Mayer presented a calm, paternal presence. Behind closed doors, the truth was much different. Multiple insiders witnessed Mayer's infamous temper tantrums, complete with loud sobbing and furious ranting. Most terrifying of all, these rages would go as quickly as they came, and then Mayer would put his icy mask back on again. ...
When he was a boy, Mayer's family moved from their Soviet hometown to New Brunswick in search of a better life. Sadly, "a better life" isn't what they got. Mayer's parents didn't speak much English, and often couldn't find good work or any work at all. To make ends meet, his mother even worked as a door-to-door chicken sales-woman. Wikimedia Common...
Mayer's family troubles eventually affected the young boy as well. When he was just 12 years old, he had to drop out of school to support his family. He initially helped his dad sell scrap metal, but then branched out into his own business. In the early 1900s, you could see the future studio head walking around town with a cart that read JUNK DEALE...
Mayer thought of himself as a father figure to many of his actors. He often treated them as children, and he'd give them advice and recommend them to doctors. When legendary actor Lionel Barrymore was wheelchair-bound and suffering from arthritis on set, Mayer also visited him every day. But these attentions had a chilling dark side. Getty Images
Mayer was incredibly controlling of his stars, especially when it came to their image. Mickey Rooney, a prominent teen star at the time, was one of his most frequent targets. When the young, wild Rooney got into trouble one day, Mayer reportedly hauled him up by his lapels and warned, "I don't care what you do in private. Just don't do it in public...
Mayer had bigger dreams than scrap metal, and he set out to revolutionize cinema at the time. When he bought and renovated the Gem Theater in Massachusetts, he turned the once-thriving burlesque house into a modern film paradise. Mayer made his theater stand out with perks like frequently changing movies, five-cent seats for kids, and ladies-only s...
Somehow, Mickey Rooney still had good things to say about Mayer at the end of it all, but not everyone felt the same. Elizabeth Taylorfamously clashed with Mayer constantly, and dubbed him a "monster" for the way he tried to rule every detail of her life. And we're not even through with Mayer's horrific behavior. Getty Images
Some of the worst allegations against Mayer come from his most famous starlet, Judy Garland. According to Garland, Mayer frequently groped her and made her sit on his lap. At other times, Mayer would "innocently" place his hand on her left breast to show her how to "sing from the heart." The worst part? She was only a teenager at the time. Wikimedi...
Oct 16, 1977 · Margaret Hoffman (Mayer) earned her living as an English teacher. She joined her career with up-bringing of three sons (John Mayer is her middle kid) and caring about her husband, who was 20 years older than her.
Mayer had two daughters from his first marriage to Margaret Shenberg (1883–1955), which ended in divorce in 1947. The elder of these, Edith (Edie) Mayer (1905–1988), whom he would later become estranged from and disinherit, married producer William Goetz (who served as vice president for Twentieth-Century Fox and later became president of ...
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May 26, 2009 · Margaret Mayer filed for divorce from Richard Mayer on Feb. 11, and the divorced was settled yesterday without dispute. Margaret Mayer's attorney, Mark R Soboslai of Westport,...
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Dec 11, 2014 · HOUSTON, Texas – Margaret Mayer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after faiing to stop and render aid in a cyclist’s death last year. Mayer had been found guilty on Wednesday of...
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