Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Beginnings

Metro - Goldwin - Meyer in the 1920s would not make sense without the roar of the MGM Lion. "Without a studio other than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood, the town will still be the center of the world's movies" (Fricke, paragraph 1). MGM fascinated a large audience with its high budget movies and an attractive star list (Hanson paragraph 1). In 1924, three film companies failed, hoping to occupy an important position in the film industry (Fricke, paragraph 3). The merger of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer resulted in the glasses of this movie, MGM became one of the most prosperous film companies in the 1920s (Hanson, paragraph 2).

Theater giant Marcus Lowe curated the merger of Metro Pictures Corp., Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions and founded MGM in April 1924. Foresightable Louis B. Meyer and Irving Talberg are steering, Metro - Goldwyn - Meyer is well known for its abundant art and filming expertise in the studio, well known as "Sky More stars "are gathered. During the 30-year gold period from 1924 to 1954, Culver City's studio controlled the film business and produced the best film nominations for the second consecutive year. The most memorable year at the Academy Awards was 1939 when MGM's "Gone with the Wind" and MGM's "Wizard of Oz" was nominated for the best movie. Gone with the wind regained the best movies of this year and 8 other Oscars.

Meyer was born in Minsk, grew up in New Brunswick, Canada, then changed Boston's little juggling theater into a multi-million dollar movie empire, MGM King-Mer (MGM). In the 1920s, people who produced movies such as carpenters, electricians and painters began to join labor unions, so wage rates were standardized and overtime worked. As the head of the studio, Meyer is not happy. When he began building a large family beach house in Santa Monica he employed only some of the technicians he knew from the studio and got the rest of the labor at a cheap price.

After the "Notre Dame Cathedral" in 1923, he left the Universal Pictures at the age of 24. This is because when I merged with Gold Rain Pictures, I fell in love with Karl Remler's daughter and joined Louis B. Mayer Production. I became a person in charge of production. Metro Pictures Corporation has become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He and Mayer have completely different personality, Mayer is in charge of business management, Thalberg is in charge of "product" from the opposite direction, which is close to the business of making photos, but they create a powerful combination . Their ten-year partnership made MGM a wonderful Hollywood studio and made it one of the few studios to keep making profits during the Great Depression.