According to activist writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM, the film's chief marketer, capitalized on the idea.

MGM capitalized on Tracy's popularity, casting him in four movies for 1940.

According to writer Naomi Klein, ironic enjoyment of the film initially arose among those with the video before MGM capitalized on the idea.

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

Escape from New York was released on DVD twice by MGM ( USA ), and once by Momentum Pictures ( UK ).

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.

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.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

At least once, in the midst of his reign at MGM, he was arrested on vice charges, but studio executives managed to get the charges dropped and all records of it expunged, and the incident never was publicized by the press.

But in 1925 when Thalberg hesitated to follow through on his promise, Hawks broke his contract at MGM.

But because of studio interference on both films, Hawks walked out on his MGM contract without completing either film himself.

Tod Browning made the once controversial Freaks ( 1932 ) for MGM, based on " Spurs ", a short story by Tod Robbins, about a band of circus freaks.

Some multi-track recordings were made on optical sound film, which led to new advances used primarily by MGM ( as early as 1937 ) and Twentieth Century Fox ( as early as 1941 ).

Cagney worked with MGM on the Western film Tribute to a Bad Man, a role that had originally been written for Spencer Tracy.

Unlike the strip, which focused most of all on the gruesomely amusing antics of Hans and Fritz, the MGM cartoons often centered around the Captain.

They also worked on a the MGM MUMPS implementation.

The Popeye cartoons passed on to United Artists in 1958 after its purchase of a. a. p., then to MGM in 1981 after they purchased UA.

* 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 ).

However, the singers did not get along well with Spector personally and their contract was sold on to Verve / MGM Records in 1965.

In 1966, before they went their separate ways, and to capitulize on their previous hits, Verve / MGM issued a " Greatest Hits " comp, of which has been modified twice, in 1983 with 10 tracks, then again in 1990 with 2 more tracks.

The family lived about four blocks from the Uptown Theater on Western Avenue in Los Angeles, the flagship theater for MGM and Fox.

They formed a small studio in Nice and made several films on location in North Africa, Spain, and Italy for MGM and others.

Amongst those who worked for Ingram at MGM on the Riviera during this period was the young Michael Powell, who later went on to direct ( with Emeric Pressburger ) The Red Shoes and other classics.

In his book " Easy the Hard Way ", Joe Pasternak, head of one of the other musical units within MGM, singled out Kelly for his patience and willingness to spend as much time as necessary to enable the ailing Garland to complete her part.

His first wife, Betsy Blair, was suspected of being a Communist sympathizer and when MGM, who had offered Blair a part in Marty ( 1955 ), were considering withdrawing her under pressure from the American Legion, Kelly successfully threatened MGM with a pullout from It's Always Fair Weather unless his wife was restored to the part.

" Her combination of attractive appearance – centered around her large eyes – and somewhat distant and understated manner made her hard at first for MGM to cast and publicize.

" MGM released Davis from her contract in 1952 ; she sought a broader range of parts, but also married Reagan, keeping her professional name as Davis, and had her first child that year.

In addition, Davis downplayed her Hollywood goals: MGM promotional material in 1949 said that her " greatest ambition " was to have a " successful happy marriage "; decades later, in 1975, she would say, " I was never really a career woman but one only because I hadn't found the man I wanted to marry.

Booth's sister, Margaret Booth later a famous MGM editor, never forgave Browning for the loss of her brother.

The same year, Jack Warner also signed newly released MGM actress Joan Crawford, a former top star who found her career fading.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers ( 1946 ).

Duhan made the offhand comment, " Somebody should send her info to MGM ", and the Tarrs did so immediately.

" She was offered a standard contract by MGM, and left school for Hollywood in 1941 with her sister Bappie accompanying her.

Soon after her arrival in Los Angeles, Gardner met fellow MGM contract player Mickey Rooney ; they married on January 10, 1942, in Ballard, California ; she was 19 years old and he was 21.

MGM publicity head Pete Smith recognized her ability but felt that her name sounded fake ; it also, he told studio head Louis B. Mayer, sounded like " Le Sewer ".

Her strategy worked, and MGM cast her in the film where she first made an impression on audiences, Edmund Goulding's Sally, Irene and Mary ( 1925 ).

Crawford in Rain ( 1932 film ) | Rain ( 1932 ) With the early sound film, Our Blushing Brides ( 1930 ), another financial success, MGM began to develop a more sophisticated image of Crawford, rather than continuing to promote her flapper girl persona of the silent era.

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

Unlike many of her MGM contemporaries, Shearer's fame declined steeply after retirement.

The trouble caused by the picture fractured Tracy's relationship with MGM.

The MGM moguls were careful to protect their contract stars from controversy, and Tracy wished to conceal his relationship with Hepburn from his wife, so it was hidden from the public.

On November 2, 2006, MGM announced that actor Tom Cruise and his long-time production partner Paula Wagner were resurrecting UA ( this announcement came after the duo were released from a fourteen-year production relationship at Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures earlier that year ).

An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets.

Lucas took Willow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), which was headed by Alan Ladd, Jr. Ladd and Lucas shared a relationship as far back as the mid-1970s, when Ladd, running 20th Century Fox, greenlighted Lucas ' idea for Star Wars.

Despite their rocky off-screen relationship, they continued to generate box-office revenue for the studio, and MGM paired them in two more silents Love ( 1927 ), a modern adaptation of Anna Karenina, and A Woman of Affairs ( 1928 ).

The NJCCC gave MGM a choice of ending their relationship with Ho by selling their interest in the MGM Grand Macau, or facing revocation of their New Jersey casino license.

This embarrassment, coupled with the underperformance of much of Roach's new feature product ( save for Laurel & Hardy films and the odd non-L & H hit such as 1937's Topper ), lead to the end of Roach's relationship with MGM.

In 1933, Haines was arrested in a YMCA with a sailor he had picked up in Los Angeles ' Pershing Square .. Louis B. Mayer, the studio head at MGM, delivered an ultimatum to Haines: choose between a sham marriage ( also known as a " lavender marriage ") or his relationship with Shields.

The destruction of the career of MGM actor William Haines, who refused to end his relationship with his male partner Jimmy Shields and enter into a marriage at MGM's direction, was said to have prompted a number of marriages of this type.

In early 2000 Half A Cow ended its relationship with Festival Records and now the label is completely independent and distributed through MGM Distribution.

At the end of 1969, the band ended their relationship with Capitol and signed with MGM Records.

Through its relationship with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), GateWorld occasionally offers exclusive news reports such as the recurring appearance of Claudia Black in season nine of Stargate SG-1 and the announcement of the third Stargate live-action television series being in development and the casting of Brian J. Smith in this new show.

His performances at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, produced by Fred Vail, beginning in 1963 helped fuel a revival of " The Wonder of You ," as well as launching his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums: The Very Best of Ray Peterson which featured most of the Dunes singles, and The Other Side of Ray Peterson, which included many of his nightclub songs.