After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

After passing a screen test, she moved to California and signed a seven-year contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios ( MGM ) in 1949 ; she later remarked, " Joining Metro was like walking into a dream world.

After Ted Turner failed in an attempt to buy MGM / UA Entertainment Co. in 1986, he settled for ownership of the library, which included the a. a. p.

After a failed attempt to acquire CBS, Turner purchased the film studio MGM / UA Entertainment Co. from Kirk Kerkorian in 1986 for $ 1. 5 billion.

The last known print of London After Midnight was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967.

After the television show ended and the band broke up, Dolenz hoped to continue a solo recording career and released several singles on MGM Records ( and its subsidiaries ) in the early 1970s.

After 18 years, Crawford's contract with MGM was terminated by mutual consent on June 29, 1943.

After the film became a huge success in the U. S., MGM began plans to make a film actually titled Red Shoes Run Faster with red-haired dancer Lucille Bremer, but quickly scrapped the idea.

After Thalberg's death, Shearer retained a lawyer to ensure that Thalberg's percentages of films he had worked on were still paid to his estate, which was contested by MGM, even though Thalberg's estate was worth around three million dollars.

After failing to dissuade Selznick from the project, Louis B. Mayer, his father-in-law and employer, agreed that MGM would underwrite the production provided his star child contract actor, Jackie Cooper, was cast in the role of the young David.

After Woodward High School, where he was one of the standouts among his class, Farr attended the Pasadena Playhouse where an MGM talent scout discovered him, offering him a screen-test for Blackboard Jungle.

After this, Zinnemann was all set to direct an adaptation of Man's Fate for MGM.

After Good Times flopped in 1968, Columbia Pictures immediately sold rights to their intended follow-up film Speedway to MGM.

After several disputes with Schlesinger, Avery left Warner Bros. and went to work at MGM.

After his stay with MGM, Iwerks ' cartoons were distributed by Celebrity Pictures, and Iwerks would answer to Disney's use of Technicolor and create the Comicolor series, which aired cartoons in two-strip Cinecolor.

After MGM dropped Iwerks they hired Harman and Ising from Van Beuren Studios and appointed them heads of the studio.

After returning to MGM, Ising also created MGM's first successful animated star, Barney Bear.

After appearing in Puss Gets the Boot, Tom and Jerry quickly became the stars of MGM cartoons.

After receiving critical acclaim for her starring role in the 1942 Damon Runyon film The Big Street ( with Henry Fonda ), Ball came to the attention of MGM, which bought out her contract.

After recording " Never Again " and " Honky Tonkin '" with Sterling Records, he signed a contract with MGM Records.

After Williams's death, Audrey Williams filed a suit in Nashville against MGM Records and Acuff-Rose.

After Leckenby joined the band, the group made a deal with producer Mickie Most and signed with EMI's Columbia label in Europe and MGM Records in the United States.

After leaving MGM in 1945, she enjoyed her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949, with Victor Mature as the Biblical strongman.

After recovering from the illness, Ebsen became embroiled in a contract dispute with MGM that left him idle for long periods.

After appearing on stage, Young was signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM )— a movie studio that, at the time, was known for holding contracts with a large number of stars — and, in spite of having a " tier B " status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, and Helen Twelvetrees.

After his death, Pablo Picasso, fascinated with Jarry, acquired his pistol and wore it on his nocturnal expeditions in Paris, and later bought many of his manuscripts as well as executing a fine drawing of him.

After the mandatory bid, bought additional shares from the public sector, made the NEEP held 78. 038 % ( increased from 67. 1 % of the Sensi ).

After expressing his interest to play in the 2011 fourth edition of the Indian Premier League ( IPL ), and despite not having have played active cricket for four years, Brian Lara still managed to attract the highest reserve price of $ 400, 000 ahead of the IPL players ' auction in early January 2011 ; however, no franchise bought him.

After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern New London, Connecticut ( later Montville ), where she bought much land.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

After the canal was opened, Motala Verkstad focused on producing equipment, locomotives and rolling stock for the newly constructed railways, beginning a tradition of railway engineering that continues to this day in the form of AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning ( ASJA ) that was bought by the aeroplane manufacturer SAAB in Linköping.

After United Fruit bought out Cuyamal, Sam Zemurray, a strong supporter of the Liberal Party, left the country and the Liberals were short on cash by the 1932 general election.

After the Nazis seized power the family moved first to Möhlstrasse in Munich, and in 1934 to Lake Tegern, where they bought a house.

After AOL bought it, it was managed by Ariel Yarnitsky and Avi Shechter.

After he became regent in 1859, Prussia bought its first 312 steel cannon from Krupp, which became the main arms manufacturer for the Prussian military.

After Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914, Krupp bought his villa Blühnbach, in Werfen in the Austrian Alps, and which was a former residence of the Archbishops of Salzburg.

After the project was abandoned, Flare Technology began work on a new project, Flare Two, which was eventually bought by Atari and, after further development, formed the basis for the Atari Jaguar game console.

After it was created, the company bought all 39 pages of advertisement space in the Newsweek magazine, 1984 November / December edition.

After earlier unsuccessful attempts, the Walt Disney Company bought the Muppets in 2004.

After Commodore's bankruptcy in 1994, Commodore Semiconductor Group, MOS's successor, was bought by its former management for about $ 4. 3 million, plus an additional $ 1 million to cover miscellaneous expenses including EPA liens.

After a disappointing fourth season ( 1928 ) owner Mara bought the entire squad of the Detroit Wolverines, principally to acquire star quarterback Benny Friedman, and merged the two teams under the Giants name.

* After its initial release, Paramount bought the worldwide distribution rights to Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now ( on behalf of Coppola's company American Zoetrope ).

After hearing that Chiles planned to sell the team, Bush headed a group of investors that bought the team for $ 89 million.

After a struggle over the company, which saw the Hinckley name dropped, Tandy made another change in 1963, when it bought the ailing RadioShack.

After two seasons, John Kent Cooke was unable to raise sufficient funds to permanently purchase the Redskins, and on May 25, 1999, Daniel Snyder gained unanimous approval ( 31 – 0 ) from league owners and bought the franchise for $ 800 million, a deal that was the most expensive team-purchasing deal in sporting history.

After the three brothers sold, Jack – through his under-the-table deal – joined Semenenko's syndicate and bought back all his stock, 200, 000 shares.

After Amstrad bought the computer business of Sinclair Research, Sir Clive retained the rights to the Pandora project, and it evolved into the Cambridge Computer Z88, launched in 1987.

After most of the land had been bought, the truth of the property's owner was leaked to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper on October 20, 1965.

After Morehead was bought out and retired Waddell merged his company with Russell's, changing the name to ' Waddell & Russell '.

After DiMaggio passed a test on his knee, he was bought on November 21 in exchange for $ 25, 000 and five players, with the Seals keeping him for the 1935 season.