Because Garbo was suspicious and mistrustful of the media, and often at odds with MGM executives, she spurned Hollywood's publicity rules.

( It is often erroneously stated — by the MGM publicity department of the 1950s — that Keel's birth name was Harold Leek ).

Shortly after, at another MGM publicity event held in Norfolk, Virginia, naval cadets of the Aviation Cadet Barracks crowned Ms. O ' Hara as " Miss Valentine ".

MGM was reputed to have insured her legs for a million dollars each, but Charisse later revealed that that had been an invention of the MGM publicity machine.

He appears as a recurring character in the mystery novels of John Dandola which involve a sleuthing MGM publicity girl.

Dietz saved copies of every document relating to his career, as well as relating to the publicity campaigns of every MGM film he publicized.

For the event, MGM publicity set up a six story-tall billboard of Williams diving into Times Square with a large sign that said " Come on in!

But in 1932, Hurrell left MGM after differences with their publicity head, and from then on until 1938 ran his own studio at 8706 Sunset Boulevard.

He was also employed at MGM in the publicity department, which allowed him the opportunity to schedule celebrities, in turn renewing public interest in the festival.

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.

Lewton worked as a writer for the New York City MGM publicity office, providing novelizations of popular movies for serialization in magazines, which were sometimes later collected into book form.

In any case, MGM executives were so impressed, they upgraded the production to an A film with full advertising support, top publicity and filming in Technicolor.

MGM mounted an extensive publicity campaign upon its release that was based largely on Tate and her character, Malibu, and life-sized cardboard cutouts of Tate wearing a bikini were placed in cinema foyers throughout the United States.

Many agreed to appear out of friendship with Davies, Hearst, and director Vidor, but the positive publicity value of cooperating with Hearst and MGM also played a factor.

The idea occurred to Astaire years before and was first mentioned by him in the MGM publicity publication Lion's Roar in 1945.

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.

Johnny Green, head of music at MGM at the time, described him as follows :" Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're working with him.

* 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director ; Harry Rapf left the studio and accepted an offer to work at MGM.

Hearst had previously been signed with MGM, but ended the association after a dispute with the company's head producer Irving Thalberg over the treatment of Hearst's long standing mistress, actress Marion Davies, who was struggling for box office success.

* October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, American studio mogul and former head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) ( b. 1885 )

The notion of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) began with Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ).

The situation proved a major obstacle in Gable accepting the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, as MGM head Louis B. Mayer sweetened the deal for a reluctant Gable by giving him money to settle a divorce agreement with Langham and marry Lombard.

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

The success led Irving Thalberg, head of production at MGM, to cast her in a similar role in The Temptress ( 1926 ), based on another Ibáñez novel.

Then the head of the story department at MGM suggested " North by Northwest ," but this was still to be a working title.

In 1938 he was chosen as head of production at MGM, where he was responsible for the decision to make The Wizard of Oz.

Financial backing came from Schenck's younger brother Nicholas Schenck and the father-in-law of Goetz, Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM Studios.

He was made head of production of MGM at the age of twenty four, and after three years MGM became the most successful studio in Hollywood as a result of his supervision.

MGM head Louis B. Mayer learned of Dressler's illness from her doctor and asked that she not be told.

According to LeRoy, it was thanks to him that she made the switch, for he left Warners to work at MGM and was advised by studio head Jack Warner to take her with him, because Warner believed that she wouldn't " amount to anything.

When Ebsen turned down studio head Louis B. Mayer's offer of an exclusive contract with MGM, Mayer warned him that he would never get a job in Hollywood again.

Throughout his time at MGM, Gilbert frequently clashed with studio head Louis B. Mayer over creative, social and financial matters.

Wallace had completed several songs and seventy-five percent of the film had been storyboarded, when, two weeks before voice recording was to begin with Bernadette Peters as Betty, the head of MGM, Alan Ladd, Jr., was replaced by Frank Mancuso, and the project was abandoned.

Bern then began urging close friend Irving Thalberg, production head of MGM, to sign Harlow, noting Harlow's pre-existing popularity and established image.

After rejecting Stroheim's attempts to cut it to less than three hours, MGM removed Greed from his control and gave it to head scriptwriter June Mathis, with orders to cut it down to a manageable length.

Once he signed with MGM, his mother insisted that studio head Louis B. Mayer pay her a salary as her son's personal assistant, which Mayer declined.

In October 1943, Pete Smith assigned Kaaren and Harry Barris the leading roles in an MGM motion picture which was to be called Practical Joker.

These first three shorts were filmed silent, with narration added in post-production, in the manner of the popular Pete Smith shorts, made at MGM from 1931 to 1955.

He provided the voices of various characters for Disney ( Black Pete and the Big Bad Wolf in Three Little Pigs and its spin-offs ), MGM ( Spike the Bulldog and in some occasions even Tom, in Tom and Jerry ), and Warner Bros. ( many characters, most notably the Papa Bear of Chuck Jones ' The Three Bears after Mel Blanc had performed the role in the initial entry ).

In addition to the Millicent Martin studio recording of " In the Summer of His Years " issued in the US by ABC-Paramount, other versions were recorded and released by Connie Francis ( MGM ), Mahalia Jackson ( Columbia ), Kate Smith ( RCA Victor ), Sarah Vaughan ( Vernon ) and The Chad Mitchell Trio ( Mercury ); the Francis recording became a Top 40 hit on the Cash Box pop singles chart in January 1964.

In 1948 Arthur Smith achieved Top 10 US country chart success with his MGM Records recordings of " Guitar Boogie " and " Banjo Boogie ", with the former crossing over to the US pop chart, introducing many people to the potential of the electric guitar.

The LP sleeve was designed by Dick Smith, then a staff artist at MGM / Verve.

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.

*" 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.