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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 ...
Louis Burt Mayer was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood.
Louis B. Mayer. Producer: The Great Secret. 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 fudged his birth date to ...
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 oct. de 2017 · Louis B. Mayer, desde sus escasos 1’68 metros de estatura, consiguió dominar el palmarés de Hollywood durante tres décadas. Tachado de tirano, logró construir un imperio de celuloide.
MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures into one company. [3] [4] It hired a number of well-known actors as contract players—its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"—and soon became Hollywood's most prestigious filmmaking company, producing popular musical films and winning many Academy Awards .
Louis Burt Mayer was born Eliezer Meir on July 4, 1882, in Minsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus ). His family immigrated to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada when he was very young and Mayer attended school there. In his late teens, Mayer decided to move to Boston, to pursue more career options. On November 28, 1907 in Haverhill, Massachusetts ...
