Loew's theater presents `` Where The Boys Are '', an MGM picture produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Henry Levin from a screenplay by George Wells.

One result was the creation by the American company MGM of an English studio MGM-British in Hertfordshire, which produced some very successful films, including A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ), before World War II intervened.

Those " different types " of films he had made-The Great Sinner ( 1949 ) for MGM, Time Out of Mind ( 1947 ) for Universal ( which Siodmak also produced ), The Whistle at Eaton Falls ( 1951 ) for Columbia Pictures-all proved ill suited to his noir sensibilities ( although The Crimson Pirate, despite the difficult production, was a surprising and pleasant departure ).

The film adaptation of Mrs. Miniver was produced by MGM in 1942 with Greer Garson in the leading role and William Wyler directing.

From 1933 to 1936 he produced a series of shorts ( independently distributed, not part of the MGM deal ) in Cinecolor, named ComiColor Cartoons.

* Tom and Jerry ( 1940 – 1958, theatrical short subjects, produced and directed by Hanna and Barbera for MGM cartoon studio )

Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), Carefree ( 1938 ), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ) ( The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 ) was produced later at MGM ).

* Flying High ( 1931 film ), an MGM musical produced by George White

Again produced by Charles Wallace for MGM / UA, it was released in the cinema with the James Bond film Octopussy, and later Wargames.

Hanna and Barbera also produced / directed for MGM cartoon studio half a dozen one-shot theatrical shorts besides Tom and Jerry series, including Gallopin ' Gals ( 1940 ), Officer Pooch ( 1941 ), War Dogs ( 1943 ) and Good Will to Men ( 1955 ).

Jones teamed with Les Goldman to form Sib Tower 12 Productions to work with MGM on the Tom and Jerry series in the mid-1960s ; his shorts were not as popular as the Hanna-Barbera originals but more so than the Gene Deitch shorts produced overseas in the early 1960s.

Jones also produced three animated adaptations of short stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, a full-length MGM feature film entitled The Phantom Tollbooth, and the 1970 TV version of Horton Hears a Who!

In 1991, a short-lived primetime remake was produced by MGM Television and aired on NBC from January 13 to March 22.

* Hearst Metrotone News newsreel series produced by Hearst Corporation from 1914 to 1967 ( distributed by Fox Film Corporation 1929-1934 and by MGM 1934-1967 )

During his twelve years with MGM, until his early death at age 37, he produced four hundred films, most of which bore his imprint, and their production had adapted his innovations.

To try and avoid issues with the code Swanson and Walsh decided to leave out profanity, rename ' Reverend Davidson ' to ' Mr. Davidson ', and claim it was in the sake of morality to produce the picture as Irving Thalberg had produced The Scarlet Letter ( 1926 ) at MGM.

* Some of the pre-May 1986 MGM / UA films made around the early 1980s still remain in the MGM library and were not picked up by Turner Entertainment due to most of these films produced by UA ( ex.

Three Comrades 1938 is a drama film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for MGM.

The film was made by MGM, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Jack Cummings from a screenplay by Marjorie Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig.

The only theatrical short subject cartoon series produced by Hanna Barbera after they left MGM and formed their own studio, Loopy de Loop is cast as a tuque-topped, kind-hearted wolf who speaks with a bad French Canadian accent, and whose kind-hearted attempts to assist almost always ended up by being rejected by those he sought to help-or something slightly worse.

In the 1980s, Hal Roach Studios produced Kids Incorporated in association with old business partner MGM.

There was also a short-lived Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Records of 1928, which produced recordings of music featured in MGM movies, not sold to the general public but made to be played in movie theater lobbies.

was adapted into a half-hour animated TV special by MGM Animation / Visual Arts in 1970, directed by Chuck Jones ( who also directed the television version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas ), produced by Theodor Geisel, and with narration by Hans Conried, who also voiced Horton.

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.

In 1927 Paramount and MGM, Hollywood's two top studios, noting the profits being made by companies like Pathé Exchange and Educational, both re-entered the production and distribution of short subjects after several years.

The MTM logo was a short video sequence parodying the MGM logo, but with a cat meowing instead of a lion roaring.

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.

Only one sequence was cut from the film: three songs by The Brox Sisters, which was recycled into a short subject, Gems of MGM.

Tex Avery also used it in his MGM short Magical Maestro when an opera singer is temporarily changed into the persona, fruit hat and all, via a magician's wand.

He was hired by 20th Century Fox in 1924, and then MGM in 1927 to head its short features department.

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

* Mouse Cleaning ( MGM cartoon short subject, Tom, uncredited voice, 1948 )

Earlier live action films to use the new Technicolor process include the final musical number in the feature The Cat and the Fiddle released by MGM in February 1934, and in short sequences filmed for other movies made during 1934, including The House of Rothschild ( 20th Century Pictures / United Artists ) with George Arliss and Kid Millions ( Samuel Goldwyn / United Artists ) with Eddie Cantor.

The MGM Grand in Reno also showcased jai alai for a very short period ( 1978 – 1980 ).

* Dixieland Droopy ( 1954 ) MGM short film with Droopy

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

In 1965, famed animator Chuck Jones and the MGM Animation / Visual Arts studio adapted The Dot and the Line into a 10-minute animated short film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, narrated by Robert Morley.

The other one is The Bear That Wasn't, released in 1967 as the last-ever MGM animated short.

Chuck Jones would later revisit the gimmick of a cute kitten with an unlikely protector in a MGM Tom and Jerry short, The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse, with Jerry becoming a kitten's friend and protector against a selfish and jealous Tom ( The plot of that cartoon was re-used from Feline Frame-Up ).

By the end of the year, he was working more in Hollywood as a writer-for-hire, operating on short contracts, for studios Universal, MGM, and Columbia.

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

Durbin signed a contract with MGM in 1935 and made her first film appearance in a short subject, Every Sunday ( 1936 ), with another young contract player, Judy Garland.

He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines ' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality.

After a short stint in the Army, he arrived in Hollywood in 1942 and signed a motion picture contract with MGM.