From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir in the Russian Empire; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...

As Kenneth Turan’s subtitle suggests, Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) and Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) were the entire equation when it came to turning motion pictures into profitable and prestigious ...

The grandest studio of Hollywood’s golden age was formed on April 17, 1924, as Metro-Goldwyn productions, using the names of just two of three merged companies. It took until January 1926 to add the ...

“The reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to be sure he was dead.” Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and ...

At the peak of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences knew the name of the studio on the silver screen signaled something wonderful was about to begin. “If they would go to a ...