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Marcus Loew (/ l oʊ /; May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927) was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loew's Theatres and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio (MGM).
Marcus Loew. Producer: The Saphead. His film resume belies the fact that he was the most important man in motion pictures at the time of his death. Born as Max Loew in New York City to a poverty-stricken Viennese waiter, his life could've easily gone the the way of many boys of the east side slums, except that he was hyper-enterprising.
Founder of the Loew's theater chain. Purchased Metro Pictures in 1920. He was the "Metro" in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer when the three studios merged to form MGM in 1924. Grandfather of Marcus Loew II. Despite his seemingly scant IMDB filmography, he was the most powerful man in the film industry.
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May 29, 2018 · One of the pioneers in the motion picture industry, Marcus Loew (1870-1927) fashioned one of the nation's largest theater chains and then went on to found the young industry's premier studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Sep 22, 2011 · As a pioneer of the mass-entertainment industry of the early twentieth century, Marcus Loew (born May 7, 1870 in New York City; died September 5, 1927 in Glen Cove, Long Island) engaged in everything from penny arcades to nickelodeons, vaudeville, and silent film.
Sep 7, 2017 · Many of the most spectacular of these “movie palaces” were built by New York City businessman Marcus Loew. From the early 1900s through the 1930s he financed and constructed several architecturally interesting and historically important movie theaters throughout the five boroughs.
Marcus Loew (born May 7, 1870, New York City—died Sept. 5, 1927, New York City) was an American motion-picture executive and pioneer motion-picture theatre owner whose consolidation and expansion of his business interests helped establish Hollywood as the centre of the film industry.
Loew, a pioneer in the development of nickelodeons (by 1919, he owned 100 with assets of $25 million), built a vertically integrated movie production operation. He created Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as a Loew’s subsidiary in 1924, which became one of the “Big Five” in the movie industry.
In 1920, in order to guarantee a regular supply of films for his theaters, Loew bought Metro Pictures; in 1924, Metro merged with the Goldwyn company and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to form MGM, of which Loew's, Inc., was the parent company.
Feb 29, 2004 · But its origins lie outside McGlory's Cafe, at Hester Street and the Bowery, where in 1876 Marcus Loew began his working life at age 6, selling newspapers.
