Search results
Louis B. Mayer has been accused of sexual abuse, including having groped a then-teenage Judy Garland. According to Gerald Clarke's book Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland, Mayer "held meetings with the young woman seated on his lap, his hands on her chest".
Jul 6, 2005 · The movie capital was a dreamland, a construction, and for more than 40 years no one manufactured those dreams better than Louis B. Mayer, the legendary force behind Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Mar 5, 2022 · MGM’s Louis B. Mayer in his office in a 1940s era image. In 1923, Mayer poached a skinny, sickly twenty-three-year-old wizard named Irving Thalberg from Carl Laemmle at Universal, an...
Aug 24, 2011 · From that modest undertaking, Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) would emerge two decades later as the most powerful man in Hollywood, calling the shots at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, the studio he built to...
Dec 7, 1998 · Quick to seize his opportunities in the young business of film distribution, Mayer earned a breakthrough $500,000 by putting up $50,000 for a lopsided 90% of the New England ticket sales on the...
Feb 24, 2016 · But if these stars knew their history, they might think twice about attending a show created to manipulate filmmakers. Louis B. Mayer, who died in 1957 at the age of 73, was a prominent studio ...
People also ask
Who is Louis Burt Mayer?
Did Mayer say a movie would never impact motion pictures?
What was Mayer like as a child actor?
What happened to Mayer & Thalberg?
Aug 12, 2020 · Get the inside story from best-selling author Scott Eyman and former New York City Ballet member Steven Caras. Lana Turner, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford were all discovered by Louis B. Mayer...
- 81 min
- 11K
- Kravis Center