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citizenscreen · 2 months

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Mogul/film executive Nicholas M. Schenck (November 14, 1880 - March 4, 1969)

#nicholas schenck #old hollywood #louis b. mayer

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pedroam-bang · 1 year

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Mank (2020)

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norashelley · 11 months

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Louis B. Mayer with Jeanette MacDonald, 1946

#louis b. mayer #jeanette macdonald #old hollywood #classic film #classic actress #vintage hollywood #sorry to post him but jeanette's just too cute here

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dadsinsuits · 11 months

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Louis B. Mayer

#suitdaddy #suiteddaddy #suit and tie #suited daddy #daddy #men in suits #silverfox #suitfetish #suited men #suited grandpa #suitedman #suit daddy #suited man #buisness suit #suitedmen #americans #jewish daddy #Louis B. Mayer

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oldshowbiz · 1 year

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1949.

Louis B. Mayer attended Danny Thomas’ engagement at Ciro’s.

#Ciros #sunset blvd #The Comedy Store #danny thomas #louis b. mayer

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lifes-commotion · 9 months

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dedicated-to-carole · 1 year

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#carole lombard #clark gable #louis b. mayer

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dweemeister · 17 days

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October 30, 2015

By Karina Longworth

(Slate) — In 1932, a schoolteacher named Mary MacDonald was hired by MGM to teach French to a young actress named Jean Parker, who was about to be loaned out to RKO to star alongside Katharine Hepburn in Little Women. Louis B. Mayer was so impressed with her work that in 1935, he created a position for her as the teacher in residence, presiding over a two-room schoolhouse on the lot. Eventually, MGM was signing so many new child performers that MacDonald had to demand more space in which to teach them. When MacDonald told the Mayer administration that she couldn’t take another pupil until she got more fresh air, they gave her an entire bungalow.

Child stars appealed to Mayer for a number of reasons. Mayer liked to think of himself as the patriarch of a massive, happy family, a picture completed by the idea, if not the reality, of a handful of lovable youngsters running around. He also believed that you could make the most money by reaching the most people. He wanted entire families to be able to share the experience of going to the movies, and so he sought to depict multigenerational family experiences, and you needed kids for that. Child actors needed more management, and more resources to develop, but that just meant they were dependent, rather than independent—at least, in theory. Two of the biggest stars who passed through Mary MacDonald’s school would test that theory.

Mickey Rooney would remember Mayer as a visionary who wanted to use his studio to produce movies that would change if not the world then at least America by presenting an idealized image of how things could be... But Judy Garland wasn’t so savvy, or maybe she was so desperately in need of even illusory emotional support that she didn’t care that her publicity department consigliere was paid to spy on and manipulate her.

#MGM #Mickey Rooney #Judy Garland #Louis B. Mayer #Deanna Durbin #Norma Shearer #Mary MacDonald #Clark Gable #Lana Turner #Ava Gardner #Girl Crazy #Thoroughbreds Don't Cry #Love Finds Andy Hardy #Andy Hardy #Slate #MGM100

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emmynominees · 1 month

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harold gould as louis b. mayer in moviola: the silent lovers and the scarlett o'hara war

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or movie

#harold gould #louis b. mayer #moviola #the silent lovers #the scarlett o'hara war #supporting actor in a limited series or movie #1980

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bargainsleuthbooks · 6 months

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Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance (Screen Classics) by Paula Broussard & Lisa Royere #ARCReview #BookReview #NetGalley #UniversityPressofKentucky #Biography #Musicals #Hollywood #Broadway

I love musicals, and one of my favorite dancers who seems lost to history is #EleanorPowell. A new #Biography finally gives her her due. #BorntoDance #universitypress #ARC Review #NetGalley #BookReview #MGMMusicals #FredAstaire #BargainSleuth

When considering the best dancers in Hollywood’s history, some obvious names come to mind—Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Bill Robinson. Yet often overlooked is one of the most gifted and creative dancers of all time, Eleanor Powell. Powell’s effervescent style, unmatched technical prowess in tap, and free-flowing musicality led MGM to build top-rate musicals around her unique talents, including…

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citizenscreen · 2 months

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Louis B. Mayer and Tony Martin enjoying the buffet table at a party in 1950. (Pictorial Parade)

#louis b. mayer #tony martin #old hollywood

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pedroam-bang · 8 months

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Mank (2020)

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dadsinsuits · 1 year

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Louis B. Mayer

#suitdaddy #suiteddaddy #suit and tie #suited daddy #daddy #men in suits #silverfox #suited men #suited grandpa #suitedman #suit daddy #suited man #buisness suit #suitfetish #suitedmen #americans #jewish daddy #Louis B. Mayer

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oldshowbiz · 10 months

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September 1935.

Louis B. Mayer was awarded the “Mussolini Cup” for MGM’s Anna Karenina, named the “Best Foreign Film” by the Italian government.

#mussolini #louis b. mayer

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memolands · 2 years

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Greta Garbo - The female legend of classic Hollywood cinema rests in Stockholm

Greta Garbo – The female legend of classic Hollywood cinema rests in Stockholm

A Swedish-American actress was known for her many film portrayals of tragic characters. Garbo launched her career with a secondary role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gösta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who brought her to Hollywood in 1925. Skogskyrkogården is a cemetery located in the Gamla Enskede district south…

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#actress #film #Greta Garbo #Louis B. Mayer #Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer #Skogskyrkogården

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chaplinfortheages · 4 months

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Old Hollywood Fistfight Alexandria Hotel Los Angeles The photo was taken inside the lobby of the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The image also happens to be based on a real-life fistfight between future MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer and Charles Chaplin, who briefly took swings at each other inside the lobby in 1920. Mayer won the tussle. Photo (and the true story) appears in the new book Haunted by History Vol. 1. Photographer: Craig Owens

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#charlie chaplin #louis b mayer #old hollywood

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