Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures. The logo was created by artist Lionel S. Reiss, who served as art director at Paramount Pictures.
Leo the Lion (MGM)
1928 poster promoting a traveling tour of Jackie
Coffee, one of the three lions used for Technicolor test logos on early MGM color productions from 1932 to 1935
Bill, a lost lion, appeared in the logo in only two films, due to being very rare, though a small number of frames existed, and is one of the three lions used for Technicolor test logos on early MGM color productions from 1927 to 1928
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company that operated from 1916 to 1924 when it was merged with two other production companies to form the major studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was founded on November 19, 1916, by Samuel Goldfish, an executive at Lasky's Feature Play Company, and Broadway producer brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using an amalgamation of both last names to name the company.
Studio's 1917 opening logo, featuring a lion