Louis B. Mayer
July 12, 1884 (140 years old) in Dymer, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyshhorod Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 Hollywood. Mayer was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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- 2025 ·Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywoodas Self (archive footage)
- 2022 ·Rat Packas Self (archive footage)
- 2019 ·Sid & Judyas Self (archive photos)
- 2019 ·Hollywood, la vie rêvée de Lana Turneras Self (archive footage)
- 2014 ·And the Oscar Goes To...as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 ·1939: Hollywood's Greatest Yearas Self (archive footage)
- 2007 ·Girl 27as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 ·Facing the Pastas Self (archive footage)
- 2004 ·So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGMas Self (archive footage)
- 2004 ·Judy Garland: By Myselfas Self (archive footage)
- 2004 ·Checking Out: Grand Hotelas Self (archive footage)
- 2003 ·Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguineas
- 1988 ·James Stewart: A Wonderful Lifeas Self (archive footage)
- 1986 ·Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clownas Self (archive footage)
- 1982 ·Showbiz Goes to Waras (archive footage)
- 1972 ·Hollywood: The Dream Factoryas Self (archive footage)
- 1961 ·Hollywood: The Selznick Yearsas Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1937 ·The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Conventionas Himself
- 1925 ·1925 Studio Touras Self
- Future ·Iconic Couples of Hollywood : Barbara Stanwyck & Robert Tayloras Himself
- 1952 ·Actors and Sinas Louis B. Mayer (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
- 1938 ·Another Romance of Celluloidas Self (uncredited)
- 1922 ·Seeing Starsas Self