One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil ( 1948 ), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom would be blacklisted in the 1950s.

Eventually many of the young men in this group would become successful at MGM under Thalberg, and Hawks admired his intelligence and sense of story.

Although Hawks signed a new one-year contract with Famous-Players in the fall of 1924, he broke his contract to become a story editor for Thalberg at MGM with the promise that Thalberg would make him a director in a 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.

Wesley Rose, at this time acting as Orbison's agent, moved him from Monument Records to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), for a million dollars and the understanding that Orbison would expand into television and films as Elvis Presley had done.

Antonioni then signed a deal with producer Carlo Ponti that would allow artistic freedom on three films in English to be released by MGM.

Years later, MGM rival Joan Crawford would disparagingly refer to Shearer as " Miss Lotta Miles ".

Thalberg would listen patiently, then invariably advise Norma to keep toeing the line, that MGM knew best, and that the movies she complained about had made her a popular actress.

After failing to dissuade Selznick from the project, Louis B. Mayer, his father-in-law and employer, agreed that MGM would underwrite the production provided his star child contract actor, Jackie Cooper, was cast in the role of the young David.

During pre-production, MGM had announced that Jean Harlow, who was under contract to that studio, would be loaned to 20th Century Fox to star in the role Belle Fawcett.

In François Truffaut's book-length interview, Hitchcock / Truffaut ( 1967 ), Hitchcock said that MGM wanted North by Northwest cut by 15 minutes so the film's length would run under two hours.

The studio's original choice to play " Irene ," the part eventually played by Carole Lombard, was Constance Bennett, and Miriam Hopkins was also considered, but the director, Gregory LaCava, would only agree to Bennett if Universal borrowed William Powell from MGM.

* In March 1938, Anita Loos contacted Aldous Huxley, then recently moved to Hollywood, saying she would put him in touch with MGM for a writing contract.

MGM would later revive the name " United Artists " as a subsidiary division.

However, financial problems at MGM, which would result in its collapse within fifteen months, " couldn't adequately promote or advertise the album.

( SIB Productions, whose logo bore a resemblance to the original Filmation logo, would soon go on to become " Sib-Tower 12 Productions " and produce the first few of Chuck Jones ' Tom and Jerry films for MGM, until becoming MGM Animation / Visual Arts for the remainder of the films ).

Roth hoped Van Halen would contribute the soundtrack ; however, the film deal fell through when MGM Pictures was sold in 1986.

After his stay with MGM, Iwerks ' cartoons were distributed by Celebrity Pictures, and Iwerks would answer to Disney's use of Technicolor and create the Comicolor series, which aired cartoons in two-strip Cinecolor.

MGM, however, demanded the I Love Lucy movie be shelved because they felt it would diminish interest in The Long, Long Trailer.

Even though success finally had seemed to come with " The Majesty of Love ", Francis was informed by MGM Records that her contract would be discontinued after her last solo single.

Thalberg, however, felt differently, and thought the film would have an impact on movie audiences, due to its classic literary source, and would highlight MGM as a major new studio.

* January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of " Dorothy " in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture.

Within days they announced the formation of Orion Pictures, with backing from Warner ( Orion would eventually be a part of MGM along with United Artists, while Warner retained the rights to the pre-1982 Orion library along with acquiring the rights to a few post-1982 Orion films.

After passing a screen test, she moved to California and signed a seven-year contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios ( MGM ) in 1949 ; she later remarked, " Joining Metro was like walking into a dream world.

* 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 );

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.

Fred Foster later argued that Rose's takeover was responsible for the commercial failure of Orbison's work at MGM ; engineer Bill Porter agreed that Orbison's best work could only be achieved with RCA Nashville's A Team.

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

Five years later, Turner Broadcasting System, having failed to buy MGM, settled for ownership of the MGM / UA library.

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.

Despite a contract with MGM to distribute his cartoons, and the introduction of a new character named “ Flip the Frog ”, and later “ Willie Whopper ”, the Iwerks Studio was never a major commercial success and failed to rival either Disney or Fleischer Studios.

Shooting ended eight weeks later, at which time Jackie Cooper's contract with Paramount Pictures was transferred to MGM.

The popular story was first filmed in 1922 by First National Pictures, and was later remade twice by MGM, in 1932 and 1941.

In 1935, he signed with MGM and returned to France later that year.

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 ).

In an ending MGM threw in later for a " happier ending ", Hans is living a millionaire's life in a huge house.

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

Mayweather controlled the later rounds and was ultimately rewarded with a split decision victory in front of a sold-out arena at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

K-tel Entertainment, Lynch-Biller Productions ( later Lynch Entertainment ; now The Tom Lynch Company ), RHI Entertainment, and MGM Television ( aka MGM-Pathé ).

By December 1970 Burke formed eight of his children, including Kyrell " Connie " Burke Groves ; Eleanor A. Burke, who was named after his grandmother who raised him ; Melanie Burke ( born March 1960 ); Gemini Curtis Burke ( born June 3, 1961 ), Solomon Vincent Burke, Jr. ( born 15 October 1961 ); Carolyn Burke ; and John Fitzgerald Kennedy " JFK " Burke into a " kiddie-soul " group, the Sons and Daughters of Solomon, whose entire output consisted of " Think of the Children " ( later known as " Save the Children ") ( K14354 ), recorded on December 10, 1971 ; " Don't Leave Me Now " ( K14233 ) and " A Piece of Clay " ( K14354 ), recorded on 21 December 1970 ; MGM single, " Everybody's Got Fingers " ( written by Solomon Burke, and Melanie Burke and JFK Burke ), recorded on January 16, 1971 ; b / w " Don't Leave Me Now " ( MGM K14233 ), a single " Save the Children " ( 1972 ), and a 1973 album " Kid Power " ( PRD0010, MGS 2994 ), the soundtrack to Kid Power, a cartoon adaptation of Morrie Turner's Wee Pals comic strip that was part of ABC Television's Saturday morning lineup during the 1972 – 73 season, on MGM's Lion subsidiary.

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 ).