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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 studios (MGM). 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 ...
Louis Burt Mayer was a Belarus-born American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the “star system” within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B. Mayer and often simply as “L.B.”, he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had “more stars than there are in the heavens”.
Biography. One of the legendary moguls of Hollywood's Golden Age, Louis B. Mayer rose from the immigrant son of a junkman to the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer beginning with the company's inception in 1924 to his ouster in 1951. It was Mayer who helped to establish the studio's reputation as a glamorous dream factory on the strength of lavish ...
Louis B Mayer (1884-1957) Louis B. Mayer was a genius, a brilliant and complex self-made man who rose from an apprenticeship at his father's junk business in Canada to forge MGM and American cinema as we know it today. He did more than anyone else to create the financial and artistic phenomenon that was the Hollywood dream factory.
10 de jul. de 2005 · LION OF HOLLYWOOD The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer. By Scott Eyman. Illustrated. 596 pp. Simon & Schuster. $35. THE film critic Otis Ferguson once said, "Hollywood is a state of mind -- but ...
1 de may. de 2005 · Louis B. Mayer would make a great character in a movie -- but definitely not the kind of high-gloss, reassuring movie in which MGM specialized during his 27-year reign.
Louis B. Mayer. Louis Burt Mayer (oik. Eliezer (Lazar) Meir 4. heinäkuuta 1885 Minsk, Venäjä – 29. lokakuuta 1957 Los Angeles, Kalifornia, Yhdysvallat) oli yhdysvaltalainen, juutalaiseen perheeseen Venäjällä syntynyt, elokuvatuottaja. Mayer oli 1930- ja 1940-luvuilla yksi Hollywoodin vaikutusvaltaisimmista henkilöistä.
