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1925
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4 days ago · In 1918, Mayer moved to Los Angeles and founded Louis B. Mayer Pictures. His company quickly made a name for itself, and in 1924, it merged with Metro Pictures and Goldwyn Pictures to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Mayer was appointed head of the new studio, with Irving Thalberg as head of production. Under Mayer’s leadership, MGM became the ...
3 days ago · Goetz, a son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer, decided to bring "prestige" to the new company. He stopped the studio's low-budget production of B movies, serials and curtailed Universal's horror and "Arabian Nights" cycles.
2 days ago · Film producer Louis B. Mayer engaged Vidor to direct Broadway actress Laurette Taylor in a film version of her famous juvenile role as Peg O'Connell in Peg o' My Heart, written by her husband J. Hartley Manners. Despite viewing screen tests supplied by director D. W. Griffth, Vidor was anxious that the aging Taylor (born 1884) would not be ...
4 days ago · What if Hollywood, a key Democratic financial pillar, cut off Joe Biden's campaign funding? That possibility now looms large after actor George Clooney and other wealthy donors urged the US ...
3 days ago · The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.
1 day ago · $195.1B. $5.1B (2.57%) Real Time Net Worth. as of 7/15/24. #3 in the world today. Photo by Jamel Toppin/The Forbes Collection; About Bernard Arnault & family. Bernard Arnault oversees the...
4 days ago · “When Louis B. Mayer took over MGM Studios in the late 20s, he turned it into a fundraising publicity wing for the GOP, and he raised enormous amounts of money,” Ross said, referring to the...
