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With the top drivers already signed to other teams, Mayer turned to James Hunt, a driver who biographer Gerald Donaldson reflected on as having " a dubious reputation ".
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.
In March 1976, community leaders Robert Christopher Evans, Dick Gaikowski, Peter Moore, and Tom Mayer bought the Roxie, remodeled it, and turned it into an art and independent film center.
Ward was originally offered both the role of Megan Donner on CSI: Miami and Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but turned both down.
During the campaign, Mayer turned multiple studio lots in Los Angeles into propaganda machines, churning out fake newsreels to be played before feature-length films in the state.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he was turned down for employment by one company after another until Oscar Mayer hired him as a salesman.

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It was during `` Old Music '' at the St. James Theater that Hollywood's Louis B. Mayer spotted her.
Riefenstahl produced and directed her own work called Das Blaue Licht ( 1932 ), co-written by Carl Mayer and Béla Balázs.
She negotiated with Louis B. Mayer and on 8 December, Walt Disney brought her on a three-hour tour showing her the on-going production of Fantasia.
Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.
In fact, HMS Sandwich never fought at Trafalgar and her depiction is a mistake by Auguste Étienne François Mayer | Auguste Mayer, the painter.
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 ".
The Calderon Brothers, famous filmmakers in Mexico, led her to Hollywood, where she met Cecil B. DeMille, who offered her work in the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.
Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro Goldwyn Mayer ( MGM ), who brought her to Hollywood in 1925.
Accounts differ on the circumstances of her first contract with Louis B. Mayer, at that time vice president and general manager of Metro Goldwyn Mayer ( MGM ).
Editor Sheldon Mayer replaced the name " Suprema " with " Wonder Woman ", and the character made her debut in All Star Comics # 8 ( December 1941 ).
Scripted by Mayer with Harry Birckmayer and Sheila Gaffney, the storyline follows the misadventures of free-spirited Mary ( Parker Posey ) on her self-destructive path of drugs and parties.
Fanny Mayer, the wife of the hotel director, a visiting nurse, and the countess undressed Elisabeth and removed her shoes, when Sztaray noticed a few small drops of blood and a small wound.
When they then removed her from the stretcher to the bed she was clearly dead ; Frau Mayer believed the two audible breaths she heard the Empress take as she was brought into the room were her last.
Two doctors, Dr. Golay and Dr. Mayer arrived, along with a priest, who was too late to grant her absolution.
Mayer incised the artery of her left arm to ascertain death, and found no blood.
Although Mayer did not want her in the role, which he felt was too minor for a new star, Thalberg felt that " only she could play " the part, notes biographer Charles Higham.
Rainer recalls that Louis B. Mayer did not approve of the film being produced or her part in it: " He was horrified at Irving Thalberg's insistence for me to play O-lan, the poor uncomely little Chinese peasant.
MGM head Louis B. Mayer learned of Dressler's illness from her doctor and asked that she not be told.

Mayer and into
Critics have explored the connection between the creation of Thomas ' mythological pasts into his works such as " The Orchards ", which Ann Elizabeth Mayer believes reflects the Welsh myths of the Mabinogion.
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.
On 10 March 2003, the Police were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and performed " Roxanne ", " Message In a Bottle ", and " Every Breath You Take " live, as a group ( the last song was performed alongside Steven Tyler, Gwen Stefani, and John Mayer ).
The French-American nutritionist Jean Mayer became president of Tufts in the late 1970s and, through a series of rapid acquisitions, transformed the school into an internationally renowned research university.
Louis B. Mayer came of age just as the popularity of the nickelodeon was beginning to rise ; he renovated the Gem Theater in Haverhill, Massachusetts, converting it into a nickelodeon that he opened in 1907 as the Orpheum Theater, announcing that it would be " the home of refined entertainment devoted to Miles Brothers moving pictures and illustrated songs ".
In describing the “ transformation of the U. S. financial services industry ” from 1975-2000 ( i. e., from after the “ revolution in banking ” described by Mayer in 1974 to the effective date of the GLBA ), Arthur Wilmarth described how during the 1990s, despite remaining bank holding companies, J. P. Morgan & Co. and Bankers Trust “ built financial profiles similar to securities firms with a heavy emphasis on trading and investments .” In 1993, Helen Garten described the transformation of the same companies into “ wholesale banks ” similar to European “ universal banks .”
Grimaldi's popularity changed the balance of the evening's entertainment, with the first, relatively serious, section soon dwindling to what Mayer calls " little more than a pretext for determining the characters who were to be transformed into those of the harlequinade.
His father however insisted that Mayer go into business.
Early in their married life, whilst living in the United States, Mayer came across the children's concerts organised by Walter Damrosch, and he was inspired by these to found the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children in 1923 ( which later grew into the organisation ' Youth and Music ', founded 1954, and affiliated to Jeunesses Musicales ).
Aged 23, he met Laurie Mayer who had just moved into his squat in an abandoned primary school in Paddington.
In 1873 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house.
Baron Mayer gave the house at Ascott to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild, who transformed it over the following decades into the substantial, but informal, country house it is today.
Ten hours into the negotiation, Mayer jumped in his van and started to drive off, threatening to become " a moving time bomb in downtown Washington.
Lord Rosebery was married to Hannah de Rothschild, the wealthy daughter and heiress of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, through which marriage the Mentmore Towers estate in Buckinghamshire came into the Primrose family.
A few artists, including Genesis, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jo Mango, King Crimson, John Mayer, Laura Barrett, and Vampire Weekend have also incorporated the kalimba into Western pop and rock music styles.
MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer reportedly tried to coerce Novarro into a " lavender marriage ", which he refused .< ref name =" glbtq ">
" Jane Mayer, author of the Dark Side, quotes Zelikow as predicting that " America's descent into torture will in time be viewed like the Japanese internments ," in that "( f ) ear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.
Nörremberg did, however, give Mayer a number of valuable suggestions on how the idea could be examined experimentally ; for example, if kinetic energy transforms into heat energy, water should be warmed by vibration.
Frank Farian's assistant Hans-Jörg Mayer ( aka Reyam ) had discovered a popular Tunisian folkloric song, " Sidi Mansour " while on holiday, and rewrote the song into a disco track.
Eventually, after playing with a great variety of artists, Mayer moved away from jazz and into Drum ' n ' Bass.

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