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    has quotations related to Louis B. Mayer. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louis B. Mayer. Louis B. Mayer at IMDb Louis B. Mayer at Find a Grave...
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    Louis B. Mayer Pictures (or Louis B. Mayer Productions) was an American film production company of the silent era which operated from 1918 until 1924....
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  • Louis Mayer may refer to: Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957), American film producer Louis Mayer (painter) (1791–1843), German landscape painter Louis Mayer (lawyer)...
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  • Louis B. Mayer: King of Hollywood (1999) is a documentary film directed by F. Whitman Trecartin that takes a look at life of filmmaker Louis B. Mayer...
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  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in...
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    younger of two sisters born to film producer Louis B. Mayer and his first wife, Margaret Shenberg Mayer. Her sister, Edith (1905–1987), was nicknamed...
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    Hedy Lamarr (category Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players)
    Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood. Lamarr became a film...
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  • Brute (1950) and Panic in the Streets (1950). When Louis B. Mayer left MGM, Mahin went with him. Mayer put Mahin under personal contract, and would loan...
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    Metro Pictures (category Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
    Goldwyn Pictures and shortly Louis B. Mayer Productions then renamed the new entity Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that year with Mayer in charge (who was never an...
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    Mickey Rooney (category Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players)
    "fine actor". MGM head Louis B. Mayer found it necessary to manage Rooney's public image, explains historian Jane Ellen Wayne: Mayer naturally tried to keep...
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    Allan Jones (actor) (category Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players)
    Tosca. According to Merchant of Dreams, Charles Higham's biography of Louis B. Mayer, Eddy, who apparently considered Jones a rival and a potential threat...
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    Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with...
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  • producer David O. Selznick and his wife Irene Mayer Selznick, and the grandson of producers Louis B. Mayer and Lewis J. Selznick. In his career, Daniel...
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    1st Academy Awards (category May 1929 events)
    Artistic Picture. Louis B. Mayer, the founder of the Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation, which would later merge into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), established...
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    O'Brien. In 1933 he returned to MGM where his father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer, was studio CEO. Mayer established a second prestige production unit for Selznick...
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    In March 1930, Goetz married Edith Mayer (1905–1988), daughter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer – who was less than enthusiastic at...
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    Jean Harlow (category Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players)
    involved with Harlow and spoke to Louis B. Mayer about buying her contract with Hughes and signing her to MGM, but Mayer declined. MGM's leading ladies were...
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    Mediawan has acquired 60% of the studio, while Plan B has also taken a stake in Mediawan. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (2020–present) Warner Bros. Pictures (2002–2005)...
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    Lionel Barrymore (category Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players)
    Before the formation of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1924, Barrymore forged a good relationship with Louis B. Mayer early on at Metro Pictures. He made several...
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    theatre producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn) Louis B. Mayer Pictures, 1922–1924 (founded by Louis B. Mayer; brought over Irving Thalberg from Universal as head...
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    Dore Schary (category Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives)
    Moss Hart. He became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and replaced Louis B. Mayer as president of the studio in 1951. Schary was born to a Jewish...
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  • player Leopold Mayer (died 1914), German swimmer Levy Mayer (1858–1922), American lawyer Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957), MGM studio mogul Lucas Mayer (disambiguation)...
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    Donny Douglas on Frasier, Saul Panzer on A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and Louis B. Mayer on The Last Tycoon. He also starred in the films Against All Odds (1984)...
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  • (1900–1998), actor Raymond Massey (1896–1983), actor Louis B. Mayer (1885–1957), co–founder of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Motion Picture Studios Bob Nolan (1908–1980)...
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  • was adapted to a 1947 film. The novel won a $125,000 prize offered by Louis B. Mayer for a novel suitable for filming. In the 19th century in the Channel...
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    Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among...
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    Wallace Beery (category Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players)
    villain in The Eternal Struggle (1923), a Mountie drama, produced by Louis B. Mayer, who eventually became crucial to Beery's career. He was reunited with...
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    20 million albums worldwide. Mayer was born on October 16, 1977, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His father, Richard Mayer (b. 1927), was principal at Central...
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    produced by Stewart and Louis B. Mayer. It was only feature film between First National and Metro Pictures' producer Louis Mayer. Anita Stewart as Marie...
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    him with Rupert Julian. Louis B. Mayer lured Thalberg away from Universal in late 1922 to his own growing studio, Louis B. Mayer Productions, as vice-president...
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