MGM's special edition of the 1981 film was not released until 2003 because the original negative had disappeared.

Their final film with Healy was MGM's 1934 film, Hollywood Party.

Her last feature film appearance was a cameo as herself in MGM's Main Street to Broadway in 1953.

Kelly's wedding dress, designed by MGM's Academy Award – winning Helen Rose, was worked on for six weeks by three dozen seamstresses.

Shortly after, Gardner, who at the time was a student at Atlantic Christian College, traveled to New York to be interviewed at MGM's New York office by Al Altman, head of MGM's New York talent department.

MGM's first order of business was to provide her a speech coach, as her Carolina drawl was nearly incomprehensible to them.

Producer Irving G. Thalberg was nevertheless enthusiastic about working with the actor, telling journalist Louella Parsons: " Spencer Tracy will become one of MGM's most valuable stars.

On the strength of these three releases, the annual Quigley poll revealed Tracy was MGM's biggest money-making star of 1944.

The studio then cast her in Grand Hotel, which starred the most famous actors of the 1930s and was MGM's most prestigious movie of 1932.

In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the pre-May 1986 MGM library — which included the rights to MGM's cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and Bosko.

She was next signed by 20th Century Fox in 1955 as their answer to MGM's Elizabeth Taylor.

In the studio he was known as " the professor ," in part because with his three-piece suit and wire-rim spectacles, he " looked as though he'd been delivered to the set from MGM's casting department.

By the time Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed in 1924 and she was cast in the studio's first official production, He Who Gets Slapped, she had become one of MGM's biggest box-office attractions.

The set was built in Culver City, where MGM's studios were located.

Battleground was MGM's largest grossing film in five years, taking in a total of over $ 5 million in the U. S. market alone, and was rated by Photoplay as the best picture of the year.

Bakshi contacted Saul Zaentz, who wrote a check to cover MGM's debt and agreed to fund the $ 8 million budget for the first of what was initially planned as a series of three films, and later negotiated down to two.

Although the film was not successful when first released theatrically, it generated more than $ 100 million from video rentals and became one of MGM's top 20 all-time bestsellers.

UA's international operations were merged into MGM's share of Cinema International Corporation ( the joint venture MGM was a partner since 1974 with Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures ), eventually becoming United International Pictures.

This record was matched only by MGM's Tom and Jerry series during the 1940s and 1950s.

Fleming's book The Fixers ( about MGM's legendary " fixers " Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling ), Beery, gangster Pat DiCicco, and Albert R. " Cubby " Broccoli ( who was also DiCicco's cousin and eventual producer of the James Bond films ) allegedly beat comedian Ted Healy to death in the parking lot of the Trocadero nightclub in 1937.

An almost complete print of the original trailer also survives at UCLA -- the first sixty seconds are lost, due to deterioration, but the sound survives complete as it was recorded on Vitaphone disks, rather than MGM's usual usage of Movietone.

While in London, Balk was cast by Walt Disney Productions to star as Dorothy Gale in Return to Oz, the loose sequel to MGM's 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz.

Bartholomew was born in London, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 10 after being selected to play the title role in MGM's David Copperfield ( 1935 ).

The movie was shot in the last months of 1956, first on location in north east New South Wales near Scone, then at MGM's studios in London.

Horne wanted to be considered for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's 1951 version of Show Boat ( having already played the role when a segment of Show Boat was performed in Till the Clouds Roll By ) but lost the part to Ava Gardner, a personal friend in real life, due to the Production Code's ban on interracial relationships in films.

In 1986, when Ted Turner acquired MGM's library ( which by then had included Warner Bros .' pre-1950, MGM's pre-1986, and a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures catalogs ), he vowed to continue the preservation work MGM had started.

Additionally, in 1975, when CBS regained the broadcast rights to MGM's film The Wizard of Oz, it was scheduled opposite Disney as it had been between 1960 and 1968.

However when the executive producer Steven Spielberg went to acquire the rights in 1986, MGM's pre-1986 library ( which Tom and Jerry were a part of ) was being purchased by Turner Entertainment which created a series of legal complications.

" MGM tried to address similar concerns when it purchased the rights to the play, while the Italian Ambassador to the U. S. threatened all of MGM's production would be banned in Italy, but with Italy's Consul in Los Angeles eventually hired as adviser, Rome agreed to cooperate on the production.

In 1928, a few months after Famous Players-Lasky's September 1927 reorganization under the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, Waters left the studio to begin a lengthy sojourn with MGM, where his initial directorial assignments consisted of two Tim McCoy series westerns, The Overland Telegraph and Sioux Blood which, when released in March and April 1929, respectively, were among MGM's last silent features.

Since 2005, when Sony and four partners acquired MGM from Kirk Kerkorian, SPHE held the domestic home entertainment rights to MGM's 4, 000 film and 10, 400 TV episode library, although those releases are still being distributed under the MGM DVD label.

MGM's Johnny Weismuller films, featuring the now standard yell, had been in production for some time when this serial was created, starting with Tarzan the Ape Man ( 1932 ). The original version of the plot involved munitions runners and government agents, focussing more on the super-explosive formula hidden in the idol.

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There she took a series of sensual portraits which convinced her husband that she could play the lead in MGM's racy new film, The Divorcee ( 1930 ).

In 1973, UA took over the sales and distribution of MGM's films in Anglo-America, while Cinema International Corporation took over international distribution rights.

Studio filming was at MGM's Culver City studios, and location shooting took place at the Iverson Ranch in Victorville, at Chatsworth near Los Angeles, and in Monument Valley.

From there, he hired an agent and had several small parts in films from 1933, 1934 and 1935, including a non-speaking part in MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty.

Fred Barton, a robot historian, is credited with saving Robby from ruin and completely restoring him to his original state ; Barton used original duplicate replacement parts made for Forbidden Planet by MGM's prop department.

Despite a poor theatrical and critical consensus, Showgirls enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals and became one of MGM's top 20 all-time bestsellers.

In addition, he often used songs from the scores of MGM's feature films, the most frequent of them being " The Trolley Song " from Meet Me in St. Louis ( 1944 ) and " Sing Before Breakfast " from Broadway Melody of 1936.

The futuristic car carrying the couple who find the dying Farwell is a leftover prop, somewhat modified, from MGM's 1956 film Forbidden Planet.

Because MGM was not able to drop out from CIC ( which distributed MGM's films outside Anglo-America ), which they had previously joined in 1973, UA's international operations were merged with CIC ; the venture eventually changed their name to United International Pictures.

Kane landed his first acting role in 1997 as one of the leads in MGM's television series Fame L. A .; in the series he played a country singer who moved to Los Angeles from Kansas.

Lionel Barrymore and Lew Ayres performed a scene from their soon-to-be-released film, Young Dr. Kildare, on MGM's " Good News of 1939 " program, October 13, 1938.

Norman Wilner of MSN said that 1967's Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again " exist outside the ' official ' continuity, are excluded from this list, just as they ’ re absent from MGM's megabox.

Kerkorian sold MGM's distribution system in 1973, and gradually distanced himself from the daily operation of the studio.

His first noteworthy job in Hollywood was working as a " go-fer " and then as an assistant director during filming MGM's Kelly's Heroes in Yugoslavia in 1969 ; he replaced the film's original assistant director, who suffered from a nervous breakdown and was sent home by the producers.

During 1938 – 39, he served as a senior director on MGM's Captain and the Kids series, based upon the comic strip of the same name ( an alternate version of the Katzenjammer Kids that had resulted from a 1914 lawsuit ).

Another exception occurred in MGM's 1951 screen version of the famed musical Show Boat, in which the role of the cook Queenie ( Frances E. Williams ) has been reduced from a significant supporting role in the stage version to literally a bit part in the film.

In 1959, United Artists released Forest of the Amazons, a cantata by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos adapted from the music he composed for MGM's Green Mansions, with the composer conducting the Symphony of the Air.

The film, compiled by its writer-producer-director, Jack Haley, Jr., under the supervision of executive producer Daniel Melnick, turned the spotlight on MGM's legacy of musical film from the 1920s through the 1950s, featuring performances culled from dozens of the studio's famous films.

Later episodes were shot almost entirely on the sets on MGM's sound stages and backlot and locations within easy reach of the studio at Borehamwood, ( e. g., in " It's Your Funeral ", " A Change of Mind ", " Living in Harmony ", and " The Girl Who Was Death "), and by reusing Portmeirion footage from earlier episodes the production company was able to save a great deal of money that further principal photography at Portmeirion would have cost.

On May 30, 2010, del Toro stepped down from the project due to an extended delay brought on by MGM's financial troubles.