In lieu of one more movie owed under her contract, MGM bought her out for $ 100, 000.

In 1997, King World Productions bought the worldwide format rights to Hollywood Squares from MGM, successor-in-interest to the series ' previous production companies Orion and Filmways.

As with United Artists when they were bought out by MGM, Columbia and Tri-Star were allowed to keep their own logos, and to continue making movies under their own names.

The film passed on to Turner Entertainment after Ted Turner's short-lived acquisition of MGM, and then to Warner Bros. when Time Warner bought out Turner.

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.

The BBC bought the studios in 1955, though productions bearing the Ealing name continued to be made at the MGM studio at Elstree Studios for two years.

Both the single and the album were Francis ' last original releases ever on MGM Records before Polydor – which bought the label in 1976 – put MGM into defunction in 1982.

In part this was due to the continuing turmoil at MGM / UA ; bought by Ted Turner in 1986, he could not get financial backing to complete the deal and, seventy-four days later, re-sold UA and the MGM trademark to Kerkorian, and sold the MGM studio lot to Lorimar ( now the location of Sony Pictures Studios ), while keeping almost all of the MGM / UA library for himself ( with the exception of the United Artists library ).

As a result of the MGM split from Turner, United Artists and what was left of MGM / UA ( at the time called MGM Entertainment Co .) was subsequently reorganized, and became MGM / UA Communications Co. after Kerkorian bought back the MGM trademark.

Parretti had bought a smaller company and renamed it Pathé Communications anticipating a successful buy of the original French company, but failed in that attempt, so instead merged MGM / UA with his former company, resulting into MGM / Pathé Communications Co. Having bought MGM / UA by overstating his own financial condition, within a year Parretti had defaulted to his primary bank, Crédit Lyonnais, which foreclosed on the studio in 1992, also resulting in the sale or closure of MGM / UA's string of US theaters.

He achieved his breakthrough as a dancer on film when MGM loaned him out to Columbia to work with Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl ( 1944 ), where he created a memorable routine dancing to his own reflection.

Unlike the case of Gone with the Wind, which Selznick sold to MGM in 1944, It is assumed that The Prisoner of Zenda was bought by MGM themselves because they planned to produce a would-be 1952 remake of the film and wished to better the original film ( a similar situation occurred when MGM filmed a version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1941, having also bought the 1931 version from Paramount ).

The 1943 Woody cartoon The Dizzy Acrobat was nominated for the 1944 Academy Award for Best Short Subject ( Cartoons ), which it lost to the MGM Tom and Jerry cartoon The Yankee Doodle Mouse.

" In 1944, MGM discontinued Our Gang, releasing the final short in the series Dancing Romeo.

She performed as herself in several features, notably I Dood It ( MGM 1943 ), Broadway Rhythm ( MGM 1944 ), with Lena Horne and in the otherwise all-white cast The Heat's On ( Columbia 1943 ), Something to Shout About ( Columbia 1943 ), and Rhapsody in Blue ( Warner Bros 1945 ).

Over the next two decades, he worked as a character actor for MGM, Columbia, and 20th Century Fox, in such films as Lady Be Good ( 1941 ), Coney Island ( 1943 ), Cover Girl ( 1944 ), and Summer Stock ( 1950 ).

He moved to MGM starting in 1944, writing for musical films such as The Harvey Girls and The Barkleys of Broadway, many starring Fred Astaire.

By the 1940s, he'd moved out of short films altogether ( though MGM continued the Our Gang shorts until 1944 ).

In 1944, the studio was purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) although it did not take possession until 1947.

Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM.

It was published in the United States in 1942 and produced as a movie in 1944 by MGM starring Spencer Tracy.

Having been with RCA Victor since his debut during 1944, Arnold left the company in 1973 for MGM Records, for which he recorded four albums, which included several top 40 successes.

Thomas in fact became the only Our Gang cast member to appear in all 52 MGM Our Gang shorts, and was also the only holdover from the Hal Roach era to remain in the series until its end in 1944.

A film version starring Spencer Tracy and produced by MGM premiered in 1944 ; a publicity stunt, in which MGM organized a pretend " manhunt " for a Tracy look-alike in seven cities for the public to take part in, accompanied the normal film promotions.

He is best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, " The Boy Next Door ," " The Trolley Song ," and " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

" New York, New York " is a song from the 1944 musical On the Town and the 1949 MGM musical film of the same name.

The PRC production Hitler's Madman, directed by Douglas Sirk, was picked up by MGM for distribution, and one of PRC's music composers, Leo Erdody, was nominated for an Academy Award for his musical score for PRC's Minstrel Man in 1944.

Louis B. Mayer helped the Jewish Benedek escape and brought him to Hollywood where he directed his first film for MGM in 1944 as a stand-in.

Through friends in the Los Angeles area, Ted made contact with MGM producer Sam Zimbalist, and the movie was launched in 1944.

*" Tootie " Smith, played by child actress Margaret O ' Brien, was the name of the youngest child in the 1944 MGM musical, Meet Me in St. Louis.

* Through the merger with Viacom, they gained U. S. rights to the majority of the Cannon Films library ( except Lifeforce, where some of said rights are owned by Sony via its initial US theatrical distribution by TriStar, once posting it on the website Crackle ), owned for other media by MGM ( who also posted Lifeforce on Hulu and Netflix ).

* Paramount has TV and digital rights to some films in the Nelson Entertainment catalog, also as a result of the Viacom merger, including the Bill & Ted films – all other rights, including Nelson's later films and the copyright to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, reside with MGM ( several other Nelson films are owned by Paramount for TV and digital distribution through the Spelling merger, as Worldvision at one point had rights to some Nelson films as well );

* Paramount also has TV / digital rights to Dead Man Walking, originally from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment ; MGM owns other ancillary rights.

Devlin and Emmerich gave the rights to the franchise to MGM when they were working on their 1996 film Independence Day ( the rights to the Stargate film are currently owned by StudioCanal, with Lions Gate Entertainment handling most distribution in terms of international theatrical and worldwide home video releases ); however, MGM retains the domestic television rights.

However these cartoons were not a success and in 1937 MGM fired Harman and Ising and purchased their studio to create MGM cartoons, thus obtaining the rights to Bosko.

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.

In 1931, during the Great Depression, he sold the film rights to his life story to MGM for $ 1, 500 ($ today ).

However, this is merely a rumor, as Harlow died in June 1937, several months before MGM had even purchased the rights to Oz.

* In 2011, MGM and Screen Gems gained rights to make a new film version with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's hand at the screenplay, and directed by Kimberly Peirce, known for her work on Boys Don't Cry.

To do so, the French group buys exclusive rights from Warner Bros. for first runs of all new films, previously held by TPS Star ( a subsidiary of the Canal + group ), as well as all films in its catalogue and rights to the film catalogues of Gaumont, HBO and MGM.

MGM had purchased the rights to Robbins ' short story, Spurs, in the 1920s at Browning's urging.