Irving Thalberg
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Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather product
Thalberg c. 1930s
Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Thalberg (left) with wife Norma Shearer, and Louis B. Mayer, 1932
Sid Grauman, Norma Shearer, and Thalberg, 1932
Louis B. Mayer
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Louis Burt Mayer was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, ac
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…films during his three years with the company. Among the films he produced was The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). In Los Angeles, he partnered with Louis B. Mayer's new studio and, after it merged with two other studios, helped create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). He was made head of production of MGM in 1925, at…
Mayer in 1953
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."
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Love Finds Andy Hardy, 1938