Tag: Metro Goldywn Mayer
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey Written by Andrew Anselmo Starring Keir Duella, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester Written by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick Directed by Stanley Kubrick Running Time 141 minutes MPAA Rating G Selig Film Rating Full Price As I watched yesterday, for the second time in as many days, I was able [...]
How The West Was Won – 1962
Here is the Cinerama trailer for the MGM epic film "How The West Was Won". This film stars Carroll Baker, Walter Brennan, Lee J. Cobb, Andy Devine, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Harry Morgan, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, and Richard Widmark. Spencer Tracy narrated [...]
Hollywood actor Jackie Cooper dead at 88
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Jackie Cooper, who survived a tumultuous childhood as an Oscar-nominated star to enjoy a varied career as a TV executive, director and "Superman" sidekick, died near Los Angeles, his attorney said on Wednesday. He was 88. Cooper succumbed to complications of old age at a convalescent home in the coastal [...]
MGM Turns 87
On April 16, 1924 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In honor of MGM's 87th birthday here is a clip of the MGM logo from one of the first films under the MGM banner. This clip is from the 1924 film "He Who Gets Slapped".
Local History on Louis B. Mayer (MGM) on Around Town with Larry Seaman
Local History on Louis B. Mayer (MGM) on Around Town with Larry Seaman.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Lion: Slats
Slats was the first lion used for the newly-formed studio. He was born at Dublin Zoo, Ireland on March 20, 1919. Slats was used on all black-and-white MGM films between 1924 and 1928. The original logo was designed by Howard Dietz and used by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation studio from 1916 to 1924. The first [...]
Norma Shearer – By George Hurrell 1934
Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in the world from the mid-1920s until her retirement in 1942. Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but after her 1930 film The Divorcee, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated [...]
