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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. Mayer was born in the Russian Empire and grew up poor in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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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. 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.
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- July 12, 1884
Nov 17, 2012 · Paperback – November 17, 2012. by Scott Eyman (Author) 4.4 329 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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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.
- Additional Crew, Producer, Actor
- July 12, 1884
- Louis B. Mayer
- October 29, 1957
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.
May 29, 2018 · Literature and the Arts. Film and Television: Biographies. Louis Burt Mayer. Mayer, Louis B. views 2,330,289 updated May 29 2018. MAYER, Louis B. Producer. Nationality: American. Born: Eliezer Mayer in Minsk, Russia, 4 July 1885; family emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada, 1888.