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6 de jul. de 2005 · For Eyman, the story of Louis B. Mayer is a story not just of one remarkably driven man but of an industry filled with similarly driven men (and the occasional woman), for whom making movies was a ...
Louis Burt Mayer, nacido Eliezer Meir, inmortalizado a la posteridad como Louis B. Mayer o simplemente L.B., fue un empresario, ejecutivo y productor de cine estadounidense-canadiense, que ejerció como «director de producción» y «presidente» del mítico imperio industrial cinematográfico MGM, del cual fue además miembro fundador.
23 de jun. de 2008 · Scott Eyman. Simon and Schuster, Jun 23, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 608 pages. Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age. An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an ...
Louis B. Mayer. Mayer was born Lazar Meir in the Ukraine and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after his parents fled Russian oppression in 1886. He had a brutal childhood, raised in poverty and suffering physical and emotional abuse from his nearly-illiterate peddler father. In the early 1890s, he changed his name to Louis and ...
9 de nov. de 2011 · Louis B. Mayer was one of the first Hollywood movie moguls, and arguably the most powerful. After running a successful chain of movie theatres, Mayer founded his own production company in 1917. In 1924, it merged with two other companies to become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Mayer served as head of MGM until 1951, presiding over the biggest and ...
29 de may. de 2018 · Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) was one of Hollywood's original "moguls," a movie house pioneer who helped found one of the film industry's most prominent studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 1924 until 1951, Mayer ruled over a vast film empire, producing a string of classic hits and discovering countless stars.
Search for: 'Louis B. Mayer' in Oxford Reference ». 1885–1957)Russian-born US film executive who became one of Hollywood's most powerful film magnates.Born in Minsk, Mayer emigrated as a child with his family to Canada, where he began his working life as a scrap-metal dealer. His entry into the motion picture business came in 1907, when he ...
