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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.
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.
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 Burt Mayer. Mayer, Louis B. views 3,014,066 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. Family: Married 1) Margaret Schenberg, 1904 (marriage dissolved), two daughters; 2) Lorena Danker, 1948.
Sep 18, 2015 · Slate. You Must Remember This. 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...
Mar 19, 1993 · Louis B. Mayer began his business career buying and selling leftover fluff from New England cotton mills, but he soon moved on to higher fluff. By the 1930s the man who had been born Lazar...
Louis B. Mayer. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation. 1924–1951. Industry: Entertainment & Broadcast Media. Era: 1920. Mayer, known as the unchallenged “czar of Hollywood” for over a quarter of century, created one of the largest motion pictures companies in the world.
