The movie was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which uses a lion as its mascot.

* Slats, the original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie Studio lion

Although some personnel from the original series were involved ( like composer Gerald Fried and director of photography Fred Koenekamp ), the movie was not produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer but by Michael Sloan Productions in association with Viacom Productions-Sloan, Vaughn and McCallum are pictured in the Michael Sloan Productions logo at the end of the movie.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

In 1933 Hawks signed a three-picture deal at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and his first film was there Today We Live in 1933, starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper.

It was in this state of mind that Peckinpah agreed to make Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

It was produced by Arena Productions using the studio facilities of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

It was made into a film, Topper, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Hal Roach in 1937 starring Roland Young and Billie Burke ; the cast included Cary Grant as George Kerby and Constance Bennett as Marion Kerby.

Years later this international version was released to tape by Embassy Home Entertainment ( Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer now holds the video rights in the US ).

was sold to United Artists ( UA ), which held them until 1981, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought UA.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer did not have a movie project ready for Gable, and the studio was paying him his contracted salary of $ 2, 000 per week whether he worked or not.

Eye of the Devil was released shortly after, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer attempted to build interest in Tate with its press release describing her as " one of the screen's most exciting new personalities ".

The Show Off ( 1934 ), for which he was loaned to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, proved popular, but his subsequent outings continued to be unsuccessful.

In the 1930s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the most respected movie production studio in Hollywood.

After his death, Dore Schary, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, said, " There can be no question that he was the best and most protean actor of our screen.

Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925.

Though the film was not a box office success, Nielsen caught the eye of producer Nicholas Nayfack who offered him an audition for a role in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet, resulting in Nielsen being signed to a long-term contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ).

The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical.

By the time Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed in 1924 and she was cast in the studio's first official production, He Who Gets Slapped, she had become one of MGM's biggest box-office attractions.

He was the film sales executive in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry.

When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ) gave her a small but significant part in the film Three Little Words ( 1950 ), then signed her to a seven-year contract.

In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).

When RKO was unable to get Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Franchot Tone on loan from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film and Gunga Din was delayed, Hawks wanted to work on another film and began looking for new project.

In later years, Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, would say this was the premiere film for his movie theater in Haverhill, Massachusetts and a major boost for him in the movie business.

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer headed by Arthur Freed made the transition from old-fashioned musical films, whose formula had become repetitive, to something new.

* In 1947, the studio acquired Frank Capra's production company, Liberty Films, which produced only 2 films in the 1940s: It's a Wonderful Life, released originally by RKO Radio Pictures, and State of the Union, released originally by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( the latter made under Paramount ownership ).

It was the first film the Marx Brothers made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after their departure from Paramount Pictures, and the first after Zeppo left the act.

Following his admission before the committee, Columbia Pictures dropped him, and a romantic comedy he made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was shelved for three years.

" 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.

Cinemax ( through HBO ) also shows sub-runs ( runs of films that have already received broadcast network / syndicated television releases ) of theatrical films from Paramount Pictures ( usually those released prior to 1997 ), Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group ( including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax ), Sony Pictures Entertainment ( including Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures ), Twentieth Century Fox ( select films from all five studios are shared with Starz and Encore ), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DreamWorks Pictures ( those made prior to the 2010 shift of film distribution rights from Paramount to Touchstone Pictures ), and Lionsgate Entertainment.

Potts made her debut on the big screen in 1978 in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy film Corvette Summer, with Mark Hamill.

Young Bess is a 1953 Technicolor biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about the early life of Elizabeth I, from her turbulent childhood to the eve of her accession to the throne of England.

There was also a short-lived Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Records of 1928, which produced recordings of music featured in MGM movies, not sold to the general public but made to be played in movie theater lobbies.

Oz was one of only two films Haley made for MGM ( the other was Pick a Star, a 1937 Hal Roach production distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ).

The Great Caruso is a 1951 biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mario Lanza in the title role.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman ( 1951 ) is a British drama film made by Romulus Films and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States.

After several months, Mitchell eventually made two films for Warner Brothers, including Raoul Walsh's Colorado Territory, before following Curtiz to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

All were made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer except Mr. Music ( Paramount ) and Three for the Show ( Columbia ).

It was advertised as their final film, and it was the last of five films made under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

King of Kings ( 1961 ) is an American motion picture epic made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Macbeth marked the fourth time that a post-silent era Hollywood studio produced a film based on a Shakespeare play: United Artists had produced The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, Warner Brothers made A Midsummer's Night Dream in 1935, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced Romeo and Juliet in 1936.

In 1968 she made her debut on the big screen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer western movie Day of the Evil Gun.

With 93 photos, the book tells readers how the film was made and describes the Golden Era of moviemaking in the 1930s and ' 40s at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

It was made by AIP ( its predecessor was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which later bought AIP's successors Orion Pictures ).

The film was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin and Mervyn LeRoy.