Louis B. Mayer
Business Executive, Producer, and Actor
Our Gang...features exclusively in mid-1935. By 1936, Hal Roach began debating plans to discontinue Our Gang until Louis B. Mayer, head of Roach's distributor MGM, convinced Roach to keep the popular series in production. Roach agreed, and began producing... In this article: Our Gang, Hal Roach, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Little Rascals, Robert F. McGowan, King World, and Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas |
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Norma Shearer
...Roach, out from Hollywood searching for new talent. Early in 1923, after a successful meeting, Roach made Norma an offer on behalf of Louis B. Mayer Pictures, run by mogul Louis B. Mayer. After three years of hardship, Norma found herself...
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Pardon Us
...to The Big House from them to keep costs down. Studio head Louis B. Mayer agreed to the proposition on the proviso that Laurel and Hardy would make a film for his studio in the near future. Infuriated, Roach turned down the offer, hiring...
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History of The Little Rascals - Our Gang
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Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir July 4, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was an early film producer, most famous for his stewardship and co-founding of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years. Known always as Louis B. Mayer and often simply as "L.B.", he believed in "wholesome entertainment" and went to great lengths so that MGM had "more stars than there are in the heavens".
- Name At Birth:
- Lazar Meir
- Birth Date:
- July 04, 1884
- Birthplace:
- Minsk, Belarus, (former part of Russian Empire)
- Death Date:
- October 29, 1957
- Place of Death:
- Los Angeles, California
- Spouse:
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- Lorena Danker (1948-1957)
- Margaret Shenberg (1904-1947)
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