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Louis B. Mayer

Born: 1884-07-12 • Dymer, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyshhorod Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine]

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Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir in the Russian Empire; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM). Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors and stars in Hollywood. Mayer was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Filmography
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood poster
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
2025 • Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack poster
Rat Pack
2022 • Self (archive footage)
Sid & Judy poster
Sid & Judy
2019 • Self (archive photos)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year poster
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009 • Self (archive footage)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM poster
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
2004 • Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland: By Myself poster
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004 • Self (archive footage)
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004 • Self (archive footage)
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Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine
2003
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life poster
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 • Self (archive footage)
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown poster
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1986 • Self (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War poster
Showbiz Goes to War
1982 • (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory poster
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 • Self (archive footage)
Actors and Sin poster
Actors and Sin
1952 • Louis B. Mayer (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
Another Romance of Celluloid poster
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938 • Self (uncredited)
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The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention
1937 • Himself
1925 Studio Tour poster
1925 Studio Tour
1925 • Self
Seeing Stars poster
Seeing Stars
1922 • Self