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.
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
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution. Founded on April 17, 1924, and based in Beverly Hills, California, since 2022 it is owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon.
Clark Gable
Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in Min and Bill (1930)
Spencer Tracy in Fury (1936)
The MGM sign being dismantled once Lorimar took control of the Culver City lot in 1986
