Louis B. Mayer (1884 - 1957)

American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios

* July 12, 1884 Dymer, Russian Empire
 as Lazar Meir
 October 29, 1957 Los Angeles, California, USA


Vintage magazines

Photoplay, February 1929
Photoplay, November 1929
Photoplay, June 1930

Photoplay, August 1931

Books on Louis B. Mayer

Scott Eyman Lion of Hollywood Scott Eyman
Lion of Hollywood, The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer
New York, NY, 2005

Samuel Marx
Mayer and Thalberg, The Make-Believe Saints
New York, 1975

Books with substantial mentioning of Louis B. Mayer

Jane Ellen Wayne The Leading Men of MGM Jane Ellen Wayne
The Leading Men of MGM
2006

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 4. Writers and Production Artists
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Kevin Brownlow The Parade's Gone by... Kevin Brownlow
The Parade's Gone by...
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, 1976

Books with an entry on Louis B. Mayer

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Articles on Louis B. Mayer

Vincent L. Barnett, Picturization partners: Elinor Glyn and the Thalberg contract affair, in: Film History, vol. 19, 2007 pp. 319-329

Vincent L. Barnett, Picturization partners: Elinor Glyn and the Thalberg contract affair, in: Film History, vol. 19, 2007 pp. 319-329

Films

1918
Virtuous Wives

1920
The Yellow Typhoon
The Fighting Shepherdess

1923
Strangers of the Night

1924
Greed
Married Flirts

1925
Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ

1940
I Take This Woman

1952
Actor's and Sin

2007
Trumbo

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