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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM ), [1] is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution. Founded on April 17, 1924, and based in Beverly Hills, California, [2] it is owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon .
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At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the industry's most prestigious studio, Columbia was nicknamed "Siberia", as Louis B. Mayer would use the loan-out to Columbia as a way to punish his less-obedient signings. In the 1930s, Columbia signed Jean Arthur to a long-term contract, and after The Whole Town's Talking (1935), Arthur became a major comedy star.
Dec 14, 2023 · September 17, 2023. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and global distribution of film and TV content across all platforms.
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production studio that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group,[1] a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony.[2] On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joe Brandt founded the studio as Cohn-Brandt ...
Feb 17, 2015 · 1. MGM. Movie studio publicist Howard Dietz designed the lion logo for Goldwyn Picture Corporation in 1917; he based it on the mascot of his alma mater, Columbia University. When Goldwyn Pictures ...
Walt Disney and the four Warner brothers had entered the market a short time before CBC officially changed its name to Columbia in January 1924. A few months later, three successful production-distribution-exhibition companies merged to become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which hit the ground running with releases featuring established stars and directors.