Thalberg then began a strategy of pairing Tracy with the studio's top actresses: Whipsaw ( 1935 ) co-starred Myrna Loy and was a commercial success.

Thalberg began using two stars in a film, rather than one, as had been the tradition by all studios.

" Thalberg was impressed and began grooming the new starlet the following day :" the studio arranged to fix her teeth, made sure she lost weight, and gave her an English tutor.

Among the reasons was Thalberg ’ s unique system of developing a script during story conferences with writers before filming began, and later giving " sneak previews " after which audience feedback was received from written questionnaires.

A few years after he joined MGM, Thalberg began dating actress Norma Shearer, and they married in 1927.

In October 1939, American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald began writing The Last Tycoon, a fictionalized biography of Thalberg, naming the protagonist Monroe Stahr to represent Thalberg.

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

In the summer of 1936 filming began on Maytime, co-starring Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan and Paul Lukas, produced by Irving Thalberg.

She began to study with Kalkbrenner at the age of 6 and also had lessons from Sigismond Thalberg.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

Privately, Thalberg was very impressed by Shearer.

Shearer's marriage to Thalberg gave her a degree of power in Hollywood that was resented by rivals such as Crawford, who complained that Shearer would always be offered the best roles and best conditions: " How can I compete with Norma when she's sleeping with the boss.

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

The film offers rare color glimpses of the wartime MGM studio, including the Thalberg Building, the frontgate, the backlot, the commissary, and one of the scoring stages, as well as an on-screen performance by real members of the MGM studio orchestra.

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

Category: Films produced by Irving Thalberg

In 1999 Jewison's work was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when he was given the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement.

Irving G. Thalberg of Metro Goldwyn Mayer ( MGM ), Sol Wurtzel of Fox, and E. H. Allen of Paramount responded by collaborating on a list they called the " Don ’ ts and Be Carefuls " based on items that were challenged by local censor boards, and which consisted of eleven subjects best avoided, and twenty-six to be handled very carefully.

Among those whose stardom was guided by Thalberg were Lon Chaney, Ramon Novarro, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Luise Rainer, Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, and Norma Shearer, who would become his wife.

Soon after he returned, Thalberg gave him his recommendations and Laemmle was impressed by his ability to understand and explain ongoing problems.

Thalberg had him come to his office, which he did still wearing his film costume as a Russian Imperial Guard, and escorted by members of his production team.

Stroheim, surrounded by his assistants, then confronted Thalberg: " If you were not my superior, I would smash you in the face.

Thalberg again called von Stroheim to his office, handed him a long letter written and signed by himself, describing the problems, and summarily fired von Stroheim as of that moment.

After nearly three years with Universal, Thalberg had supervised over a hundred movies, reorganized the studio to give more control to the managers, and had " stopped the defection " of many of their leading stars by offering them better, higher-paying contracts.

Thalberg was supported by most of the studio in these kinds of creative decisions.

Of those which failed, Hallelujah in 1929 was also a gamble by Thalberg.

Less than a year after he and Mayer took charge of the newly-created MGM studios, and still only twenty-five years old, Thalberg suffered a serious heart attack due to overwork.

Leading producers from the other studios also expressed their feelings in published tributes to Thalberg:

After several roles there and at other movie studios, she was chosen by Irving Thalberg to appear as Jane Parker in Tarzan the Ape Man, opposite co-star Johnny Weissmuller.

After having her second child with Thalberg, Shearer considered retiring from films, but Thalberg was convinced he could continue to find good roles for her and encouraged her to continue acting.

Thalberg claimed that " credit you give yourself is not worth having ".

The first project Thalberg handed Loos was Jean Harlow's Red-Headed Woman since F. Scott Fitzgerald was having no luck adapting Katherine Brush's book.

Shearer had two children with Thalberg, Irving Junior ( 1930 – 1988 ) and Katherine ( 1935 – 2006 ).

George S. Kaufman, co-author of Dinner at Eight, various Marx Brothers films, and two George Gershwin plays, came from New York to meet with Thalberg.

" Mayer's company subsequently merged with two others to become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), with the 24 year-old Thalberg made part-owner and accorded the same position as vice president in charge of production.

Thalberg gave Gilbert two projects that were character studies, giving Gilbert an excellent showcase for his versatility.

Thalberg invited Liszt for dinner, and the two great pianists dined together on the 28th with Prince Moritz Dietrichstein, who told Liszt, that he was delighted to have " Castor and Pollux " together in his home.

The concerts were reviewed in the Revue et Gazette musicale by Henri Blanchard who two years before, in his review of Liszt's concert on April 20, 1840, had nominated Thalberg as Cesar, Octavian or Napoleon of the piano.

Thalberg et Liszt "' in the Revue et Gazette musicale of April 23, 1837, Fétis claimed that Thalberg had created a new piano-style by uniting two different schools.

Mayer's company folded into Metro Goldwyn with two notable additions: Mayer Pictures ' contracts with key directors such as Fred Niblo and John M. Stahl, and up-and-coming actress Norma Shearer, later married to Thalberg.

These included Franz Liszt, with whom he played arrangements of two of Liszt's symphonic poems ( Les Préludes, and Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo ) for 2 pianos, Hector Berlioz, Gioachino Rossini, Charles Gounod, Felix Mendelssohn, Sigismond Thalberg and Charles-Marie Widor.