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1. slate.com › articles › artsMGM founders Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer: You Must ...

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   Sep 18, 2015 · Mayer—called “L.B.” or “Louie B” by his friends and epithets like “Jewish Hitler” by his enemies—was the self-styled bad cop in the executive partnership: He handled the money ...

2. nypost.com › 2017/07/27 › the-spectacular-rise-andThe spectacular rise and tragic fall of the real-life ‘Last ...

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   Jul 28, 2017 · Thalberg admired good writers like Fitzgerald, and he tolerated their demons. From left, Buster Keaton, Harry Rapf, Irving Thalberg, Nick Schenk, Louis B. Mayer, Eddie Mannix, Hunt Stromberg, in ...

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   Later that evening, after Thalberg had left, Mayer told the studio's attorney, Edwin Loeb, to let Thalberg know that if he wanted to work for Mayer, he would be treated like a son. [ 31 ] : 46 Although their personalities were in many ways opposite, Mayer being more outspoken and nearly twice the younger man's age, Thalberg was hired as vice president in charge of production at Louis B. Mayer ...

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   Jul 27, 2017 · Although those two real-life men helped found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer together, which would go on to become one of the biggest movie studios of Hollywood's Golden Age, Thalberg and Mayer also had a ...

5. www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org › entries › irvingIrving Thalberg - Immigrant Entrepreneurship

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   Jun 8, 2011 · Irving Grant Thalberg (born May 30, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York; died: September 4, 1936 in Santa Monica, California), the son of German-Jewish immigrants, considered a career as a merchant and a lawyer before using German-Jewish kinship and ethnic networks in mid-1918 to secure an entry-level position in the U.S. film industry.

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   Mar 5, 2022 · In 1923, Mayer poached a skinny, sickly twenty-three-year-old wizard named Irving Thalberg from Carl Laemmle at Universal, an acquisition more important to the company than any star he ever put ...

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   What was the difference between Mayer & Thalberg?

   • Although their personalities were in many ways opposite, Mayer being more outspoken and nearly twice the younger man's age, Thalberg was hired as vice president in charge of production at Louis B. Mayer Productions.

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   What happened to Mayer & Thalberg?

   • Nicholas M. Schenck had stepped down earlier that year. General manager Eddie Mannix, who had taken the operational reins from Thalberg, also retired in 1956. Ida Koverman, Mayer’s long-time executive secretary (she practically ran the joint), died in 1954.

   When MGM Ruled Hollywood: The Rise (and Fall) of Amazon’s Next Prize

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   Who were Mayer & Thalberg?

   • Having inherited few big names from their predecessor companies, Mayer and Thalberg began at once to create and publicize a host of new stars, among them Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, William Haines, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer (who followed Thalberg from Universal).

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   Who was Irving Thalberg?

   • In November 1922, Mayer invited Irving Thalberg to meet with him at his studio. Thalberg was known around town as a boy genius. At age 23, he had already been running production at Universal Studios for years. He was bored there, and frustrated that his bosses were always trying to cut back.

   MGM founders Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer: You Must Remembe…

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   Did Irving Thalberg marry Norma Shearer?

   • In February 1923, Thalberg and Mayer officially joined forces. Thalberg quickly became part of the fabric of the place, wooing and marrying Mayer’s contract ingénue, Norma Shearer. Louis B. Mayer, right, sees Norma Shearer and her new husband, producer Irving Thalberg, off on their European honeymoon, circa 1927.

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   How did Thalberg's death affect the film industry?

   • Some actors were affected, such as Luise Rainer, winner of Hollywood's first back-to-back Oscars, who felt that the death of Thalberg marked the death of her career: "Had it not been that he died, I think I may have stayed much longer in films."

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8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Metro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Wikipedia

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   Website. mgm.com. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), [ 1 ] is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California. [ 2 ] MGM was founded on April 17, 1924 and has been owned by the Amazon MGM Studios ...