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Vor 4 Tagen · 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 ...
29. Mai 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. Mayer never strayed from a promise he made early in his career to create what he called ...
Louis Burt Mayer, vlastním jménem Lazar Meir nebo Eliezer Meir (12. července 1884 – 29. října 1957, Los Angeles, USA), byl americký filmový producent, obecně uváděn jako tvůrce "hvězdného systému" v Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Byl znám jako Louis B. Mayer a často jednoduše jako „LB“.
Louis B. Mayer war zunächst Inhaber einer Kinokette, bis er 1916 gemeinsam mit Richard A. Rowland die Metro Pictures Corporation gründete. Mayer verließ das Unternehmen und gründete 1917 oder 1918 in Los Angeles seine eigene Produktionsfirma, die Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Der erste Star des Studios war Anita Stewart, die Mayer von Vitagraph ...
Louis B. Mayer Facts. 1. Mayer Might I. Mayer was a self-made man in every sense of the word. As actress Ann Rutherford put it, "If anybody on earth ever created himself, Louis B. Mayer did." For one thing, Louis Mayer wasn't even his real name: He was born Lazar Meir in July 1884 in the former Russian Empire.
9. Nov. 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 most prestigious studio of Hollywood’s golden ...
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 exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood.
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