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Name: Louis Burt Mayer
Variant Name: Eliezer Mayer
Birth Date: July 4, 1885
Death Date: October 29, 1957
Place of Birth: Minsk, Russia
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: film studio executive

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Biography of Louis Burt Mayer
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Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) was one of Hollywood's original "moguls," a movie house pioneer who helped found one of the film industry's most prominent studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 1924 until 1951, Mayer ruled over a vast film empire, producing a...


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Louis B. Mayer (born Eliezer Meir, 1882 – October 29 , 1957 ) was an early film producer, most famous for his stewardship and co-founding of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Sourced Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed) I will...


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Mayer, Louis B. (1885-1957) Summary
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Arguably the most influential motion picture executive of this century, Louis B. Mayer presided over the studio that claimed to have "more stars than there are in heaven," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). In 1938 Mayer was the highest paid...
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Louis Burt Mayer (born Eliezer Meir 1882[1] – 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"...


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The Boston Globe
Louis B. Mayer's Last Big Production
06/04/1988: 894 words, approx. 3 pages
He became famous in a place built on dreams, and yesterday Louis B. Mayer's "fondest dream" -- to foster the fight against cancer -- became a reality in the place he considered his home. With the help of a $5 million grant from...
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Variety
A more likable Mayer emerges.(Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer)(Book Review)
05/02/2005: 627 words, approx. 2 pages
LION OF HOLLYWOOD THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF LOUIS B. MAYER SCOTT EYMAN SIMON & SCHUSTER; 688 PGS.; $35 Louis B. Mayer would make a great character in a movie--but definitely not the kind of high-gloss, reassuring movie in which MGM specialized...
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The New York Observer
No More Wire Hangers! Dunaway\'d5s Mommie Returns
7/2/2006: 1,049 words, approx. 4 pages
When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I am Wilder and go fuck yourself.”) As Joan Crawford in the much-ridiculed Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway...
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The New York Observer
No More Wire Hangers! Dunaway's Mommie Returns
7/2/2006: 1,050 words, approx. 4 pages
When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I am Wilder and go fuck yourself.”) As Joan Crawford in the much-ridiculed Mommie Dearest, Faye...
 


 

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