* He is mentioned in the documentary The Man Who Lost The Civil War ( 2003 ), a special feature as part of MGM's release of a Leone DVD anthology in 2003.

Many DVD editions have been transferred this way and the results have frequently been stunning, i. e. Blue Underground's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and MGM's special editions of Sergio Leone's Westerns.

Roach produced the final two-reel Our Gang short, a high-budget musical special entitled Our Gang Follies of 1938, in 1937 as a parody of MGM's Broadway Melody of 1938.

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.

Morton's Fork is cited by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Burroughs v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 683 F. 2d 610 ( 1982 ), where heirs of Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs and Burroughs's rights-holding corporation Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., claimed copyright infringement in MGM's 1981 film Tarzan, the Ape Man.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

** MGM's Technicolor film version of Show Boat, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

** MGM's Technicolor musical film, An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, premieres in New York.

* August 15 – MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

** MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, is released in theaters everywhere.

** MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz makes its NBC debut after being telecast on CBS since 1956.

* December 11 – MGM's The Wizard of Oz is rerun on CBS only a year after its previous telecast, thus beginning the tradition of annual telecasts of the film.

* November 3 – MGM's film The Wizard of Oz makes its TV debut on the CBS network.

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.

Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some of MGM's most popular performers in a lavish two-hour revue.

The Wizard of Oz has been adapted to other media numerous times, most famously in the MGM's 1939 film starring Judy Garland.

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 ).

A notable flop at the box office, the film cast doubt on whether or not a live-action fantasy peopled by strange-looking characters could be successfully presented on the screen, until MGM's The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) erased such doubts, at least in the minds of some critics.

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.

In 1935 McDaniel had prominent roles with her performance as a slovenly maid in RKO Pictures ' Alice Adams, a comic part as Jean Harlow's maid / traveling companion in MGM's China Seas, the latter her first film with Clark Gable, and as Isabella the maid in Murder by Television, with Béla Lugosi.

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.

It is the only film in the WB library whose copyright is owned by both WB and Turner Entertainment ( the initial buyer of MGM's pre-1986 library ).

The experimental spaceship shown is the saucer-shaped cruiser seen in MGM's 1956 film Forbidden Planet.

The film is MGM's first All-Talking, All-Color ( Technicolor ) production.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* November 18 – MGM's widescreen, multimillion dollar, Technicolor version of Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time.

* In another twist of irony, UA also owns theatrical distribution rights to the 1978 remake of The Big Sleep ( another ITC production originally released by UA ) by virtue of MGM's distribution rights to ITC's theatrical output.

* Nearly all of MGM's film and television library prior to May 23, 1986 ending with the film Killer Party ( released on May 9, 1986 )

Rip also played Judas Iscariot in MGM's King of Kings released in 1961.

Other examples include MGM's The Wizard of Oz and Walt Disney's Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi, all of which flopped merely due to the fact they were released during World War II which cut off 60 % of Hollywood's international release market.

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 was the fourth and final entry in MGM's loosely-connected Broadway Melody series, which began with the original The Broadway Melody released in 1929, and was followed by Broadway Melody of 1936 and Broadway Melody of 1938.

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.

Both Roach's The Little Rascals package ( now owned by CBS Television Distribution ) and MGM's Our Gang package ( now owned by Turner Entertainment ) have since remained in syndication, with periodic new productions based on the shorts surfacing over the years, including a 1994 Little Rascals feature film released by Universal Pictures.

The film was MGM's first theatrically released animated film since 1996's All Dogs Go to Heaven 2.