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MGM stars included at various times " King of Hollywood " Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Gary Cooper, Mary Pickford, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, Gloria Stuart, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, John Barrymore, Audrey Hepburn and Buster Keaton.
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At MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.
" MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies ," she said.
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.
After appearing in Puss Gets the Boot, Tom and Jerry quickly became the stars of MGM cartoons.
During the 1930s Beery was one of Hollywood's Top 10 box office stars, and at one point his contract with MGM stipulated that he be paid $ 1 more than any other contract player at the studio, making him the highest paid actor in the world.
Joan Crawford's first role was a Thalberg production at MGM and she became one of their leading stars for the next thirty years.
When Thalberg returned to work in 1933, it was as one of the studio's unit producers, albeit one who had first choice on projects and MGM resources, including its stars, due to his closeness to Nicholas Schenck, who was then president of MGM corporate parent Loew's Inc. Schenck, who was the true power and ultimate arbiter at the studio, usually backed up Thalberg.
The funeral attracted thousands of spectators who came to view the arrival of countless stars from MGM and other studios, including Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, among the stars.
After appearing on stage, Young was signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM )— a movie studio that, at the time, was known for holding contracts with a large number of stars — and, in spite of having a " tier B " status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, and Helen Twelvetrees.
Lawrence returned to the screen in 1936, when MGM began giving small parts to old stars for seventy-five dollars a week.
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.
She was one of the more popular ingenues at MGM throughout the 1930s and appeared in a number of other productions with various stars.
The film started out smaller but then MGM increased the budget to hire stars such as Lord Olivier.
* 1943 gathering of MGM stars
Still young, her star continued to rise while the popularity of other female stars at MGM, such as Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, waned.
", he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had " more stars than there are in the heavens ".
Berkeley had several well-publicized run-ins with MGM stars such as Judy Garland.
Several stars, including Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy, Errol Flynn, Alex Trebek, and MGM mogul, Louis B. Mayer, have owned horses that raced at the park.
The Andy Hardy series served as a platform for MGM to introduce new performers, some of whom became stars themselves.
MGM was searching for a suitable youngster to play the adopted son of Tarzan in its next jungle movie with stars Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O ' Sullivan.
In real life, Williams and Reed were close friends and had been so since the early 1940s when they were rising MGM contract stars.
A highlight of the film is Morgan's reenactment of the current MGM hit film Boom Town, with Morgan's character, Frank Merriweather, supposedly imitating the voices of the stars of that film.
Throughout the decade, Hurrell photographed every star contracted to MGM, and his striking black-and-white images were used extensively in the marketing of these stars.
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This led to a long-term MGM contract and a sequence of films, which included the musical The Glass Slipper ( 1955 ) and the drama Man with a Cloak ( 1956 ), with Joseph Cotten and Barbara Stanwyck.
After Ted Turner failed in an attempt to buy MGM / UA Entertainment Co. in 1986, he settled for ownership of the library, which included the a. a. p.
Titles included in this library are S. O. B., the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( WB also owns the 1946 MGM version through Turner ), The Sea Wolves, and Escape to Victory ( a. k. a. Victory ).
While MGM had included five films in his contract, no more were made.
In 1992, the MGM library, which included Warner Brothers properties including the early Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies libraries and also the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, became the core of Cartoon Network.
This included almost all the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television library with the exception of those owned by United Artists ( i. e. James Bond franchise ), although some UA material were included such as the a. a. p.
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.
Strausbaugh estimates that roughly one-third of late 1940s MGM cartoons " included a blackface, coon, or mammy figure.
This included the US distribution rights to Network, but international distribution remained with MGM ( with theatrical distribution by UIP ), which retained UA's library from 1952 on.
Noted historical anniversaries covered in the 2009 Proms included the 75th anniversary of the MGM film musical, and the 10th year of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
Their hit " Amen ," ( Top 10 ), an updated version of an old gospel tune, was included in the soundtrack of the 1963 MGM film Lilies of the Field, which starred Sidney Poitier.
But MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer, not included in the deal, fought back.
When the pre-May 1986 MGM library was bought by Turner Entertainment, both productions were included in the roster as well.
During the mid-60s, Taylor worked mostly for MGM, where his credits included Sunday in New York ( 1963 ), Fate Is the Hunter ( 1964 ), 36 Hours ( 1965 ), Young Cassidy ( 1965 ), The Liquidator ( 1965 ) and The Glass Bottom Boat ( 1966 ).
In 1986, when Ted Turner acquired MGM's library ( which by then had included Warner Bros .' pre-1950, MGM's pre-1986, and a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures catalogs ), he vowed to continue the preservation work MGM had started.
As in many early MGM soundtrack albums, only eight selections from the film are included.
Other MGM subsidiaries and distributed labels included: Kama Sutra ( from 1965 until Kama Sutra's sister label Buddah Records took over distribution in 1969 ), Ava, Heritage, Metro ( for budget albums ), Hickory, MGM South, L & R, and Lionel.
The original uncut version was included on the Criterion Collection laserdisc and DVD of the film ( both out of print ), the 2005 trilogy box set and the 2007 anniversary edition ; the latter two were released by MGM and were unrated.
A year later he reconvened with the Strawberry team, who had by then charted with their own debut 10cc album, to record The Tra-La Days Are Over for MGM Records, which started the second phase of his career and included his original version of the hit song " Love Will Keep Us Together " ( also a US No. 1 hit two years later for The Captain & Tennille ).
Though the Turner sale included all of MGM's rights to most of its pre-1986 films, MGM retained its overall rights to the Fame franchise as the TV series was still in production in 1986.
Large format anamorphic processes included Ultra Panavision and MGM Camera 65 ( which was renamed Ultra Panavision 70 in the early 60s ).
Some of these surrealist advertisements noted by Seattle Magazine included the Running of the MFRs ( Mountain Fresh Rainiers )( a parody of Running of the Bulls featuring bottles with legs ), frogs that croaked " Rainier Beer " ( a motif appropriated many years later by Budweiser ), Mickey Rooney appeared in several TV ads, most notably a parody of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald's " Indian Love Call " from the 1936 MGM film " Rose Marie ".
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.
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