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Apr 29, 2024 · MGM Studios, the Irving Thalberg Administration Building, dedicated in 1938. The Culver City studio, founded by Thomas Ince and home of Goldwyn films since 1919, housed 2,500 employees, and in ...
- The Rise of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Ruling 1930s Hollywood: Depression-Era Dominance
- The Mayer Regime
- Struggle, Decline, and Dismemberment
- Further Reading
The creation of MGM was orchestrated by Marcus Loew (1870–1927), who began building a chain of vaudeville and nickelodeon theaters in 1904 and 1905; by 1919, when it became Loew's, Incorporated, it was the leading chain of first-class theaters in the United States, concentrated in the New York area. Loew began to expand beyond film exhibition with ...
MGM's domination of the movie industry in the 1930s was simply staggering, fueled by both the consistent quality of its films and the economic travails of its rivals. Three of the five integrated majors, Fox, Paramount, and RKO, declared bankruptcy, and Warners forestalled that same fate only by siphoning off a sizable portion of its assets. Loew's...
Mayer assumed complete control of MGM after Thalberg's death, managing the studio as well as production through a committee system that swelled rapidly in the late 1930s, adding several levels of bureaucracy to the filmmaking machinery. Where Thalberg had managed production with a "staff" of a half-dozen supervisors, Mayer by 1940–1941 required for...
Mayer's departure scarcely improved MGM's fortunes. Schenck and Schary were both out by the mid-1950s, leading to a quick succession of top executives at both Loew's and MGM. Mayer himself attempted to regain control in 1957, but the effort failed and he died late that year—just before MGM announced the first annual net loss in its history. The stu...
Balio, Tino. United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry. Madison: University of WisconsinPress, 1987. Crowther, Bosley. The Lion's Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1957. Eames, John Douglas. The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty-Seven Roaring Years. Revised ed. New York: Crown, 1979. Eyman,...
Apr 15, 2013 · In 1914, Mitchell Mark and his brother Moe, opened what many consider the first movie palace, the one-million dollar Mark Strand Theater in Times Square, New York City. Mitchell Mark hired Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel to manage the theater and bring in the crowds. Earlier in his life, while working as a tavern barkeep in Forest City, PA, “Roxy ...
Rechristened Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the new MGM went public in 1997 and once again has become a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment industry. Headquartered in Santa Monica and with offices in New York, London, Santiago, and Sydney, MGM's reach extends from hit films like Tomorrow Never Dies, The Birdcage, Get Shorty, Ulee's Gold ...
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER. HISTORY. Like other film industry pioneers, Marcus Loew started with the nickelodeon crazy and built it into an impressive chain of theaters. But by the late 1910s, one of the major problems was having a constant supply of good films for his theaters. Loew had been one of Adolph Zukor's (Famous Players) best customers until ...
At this point, MGM and UA films were now preceded by a joint opening logo featuring the futuristic "MGM/UA" logo appearing as though in a wind tunnel, forming into a metallic symbol, with the MGM/UA Communications Co. text appearing beneath it in red; the text was then replaced by a horizontal red line, which then split to reveal either the MGM Lion or the new UA logo (featuring multiple "UA ...
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Jul 18, 2022 · On July 29, MGM will release their first film since being acquired by Amazon earlier this year. Thirteen Lives, a Ron Howard drama about the 2018 Thai cave rescue, is getting a limited theatrical run before it heads to Amazon Prime on August 5. It’s a sorry state of affairs for a studio that was one of the original “Big Five.”.
