Louis B. Mayer
Canadian-American film producer (1884-1957) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 73
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.
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2004Canada's Walk of FameAward1957Died29 October 19571952
Actors and SinFilm, Louis B. Mayer (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)1951Academy Honorary AwardAward1940
I Take This WomanFilm, Producer1937The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 ConventionFilm, Himself1926Vårt kronprinspar i HollywoodFilm1924
GreedFilm, Producer1922
Rose o' the SeaFilm, Producer1920
Harriet and the PiperFilm, Producer1916
Lovely MaryFilm, Producer1884Born30 June 1884
Actors and SinFilm, Louis B. Mayer (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)1951Academy Honorary AwardAward1940I Take This WomanFilm, Producer1937The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 ConventionFilm, Himself1926Vårt kronprinspar i HollywoodFilm1924GreedFilm, Producer1922Rose o' the SeaFilm, Producer1920Harriet and the PiperFilm, Producer1916Lovely MaryFilm, Producer1884Born30 June 1884People around Louis
Norma Shearer Louis produced Lady of the Night and The Snob
Samuel Goldwyn Professional partner
John Gilbert Louis produced Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1926)
Ramón Novarro Louis produced Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1927)
Renée Adorée Louis produced Man and Maid (1925)
Conrad Nagel Louis produced The Snob (1924)
Eleanor Boardman Louis produced Wine of Youth and Redemption
Mary Miles Minter Louis produced Barbara Frietchie (1915)
Anita Stewart Louis produced Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
John Barrymore Louis produced Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1927)
Mildred Harris Louis produced The Woman in His House (1920)
Lewis Stone Louis produced Confessions of a Queen (1925)
Claire Windsor Louis produced One Clear Call (1922)
Dale Fuller Louis produced Greed (1924)
Marcus Loew Professional partner
Mitchell Lewis Louis produced Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1927)
Huntley Gordon Louis produced The Wanters (1923)
Barbara La Marr Louis produced Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
Thomas Holding Louis produced Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919)
ZaSu Pitts Louis produced Greed and Wine of Youth
Claire McDowell Louis produced Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1927)
William Haines Louis produced Wine of Youth and The Smart Set
Eulalie Jensen Louis produced Wine of Youth (1924)
Frank Currier Louis produced Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1927)
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Filmography 40
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Television 1
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Lionel Barrymore's 61st birthday in 1939, standing: Mickey Rooney, Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable, Louis B. Mayer, William Powell, Robert Taylor, seated: Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, and Rosalind Russell![Mayer with Joan Crawford at the premiere of Torch Song, 1953."To me," she once stated, "L.B. Mayer was my father, my father confessor, the best friend I ever had."[64]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Louis_B_Mayer_and_Joan_Crawford.jpg/1280px-Louis_B_Mayer_and_Joan_Crawford.jpg)
Mayer with Joan Crawford at the premiere of Torch Song, 1953."To me," she once stated, "L.B. Mayer was my father, my father confessor, the best friend I ever had."[64]
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Love Finds Andy Hardy, 1938
Greer Garson, 1940sAwards
About this person
Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1884 to 1957 · aged 73
