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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 ...
Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, A Night at the Opera, Mutiny on the Bounty, Camille and The Good Earth.
The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in 14 motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.Five of the Marx Brothers' fourteen feature films were selected by the American Film Institute (AFI) as among the top 100 comedy films, with two of them, Duck Soup (1933) and A Night at the Opera (1935), in the top fifteen.
Dec 7, 1998 · December 7, 1998 12:00 AM EST. D an Quayle would have loved Louis B. Mayer, a man for whom the words family values had real meaning. Motherhood, the Stars and Stripes and God were equal parts of a ...
- Budd Schulberg
Sep 15, 2015 · This episode will trace the rise of MGM through the 1920s and early-mid 30s, covering Mayer’s long-evolving working relationship with Thalberg, the creation of the MGM “star factory” identity and unique power within the community of Hollywood, and the in-fighting which would end with Mayer poised to seize his crown as the most powerful man in Hollywood.
Feb 16, 2022 · In 1932, when the M-G-M producer Paul Bern was found shot dead in his home in Benedict Canyon, Howard Strickling, Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg were called in before the police.
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Mar 25, 1994 · The fact that the two had much in common — both were Jewish, unreligious, and politically conservative — made their differences more galling to Mayer, who, like much of Hollywood, felt ...
