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	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer died on October 29, 1957 and was interred in the Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.
		As a studio boss, <b>Louisb> B. Mayer built MGM into the most financially successful motion picture studio in the world and the only one to pay dividends throughout the Great Depression of the 1930s.
		Mayer ultimately sold his collection of thoroughbred horses (which he supposedly paid more attention to than his MGM responsibilities), worked to control costs and searched for "a new Thalberg," hiring writer and producer Dore Schary as production chief.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_B._Mayer (754 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer
		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer was the stereotypical Hollywood studio mogul -- a short, feisty, cigar-chomping czar who ruled his kingdom with an iron fist.
		Mayer was born in a small town in the Minsk district of Russia, although the exact date is not certain.
		Mayer was often personally involved in the private lives of his employees, usually to make sure their public reputation matched the studio's image for wholesomeness and decency.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /mayer.html (1140 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: <b>Louisb> B. Mayer
		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer is remembered as a temperamental tyrant who was loved by some who worked for him, hated by others.
		Mayer thought of himself as a father figure to his stars, and he could be generous and protective.
		Mayer would not accept this and his longtime feud with the MGM East Coast office grew as the studios' bottom line began to shrink.
	www.findarticles.com /g1epc/bio/2419200806/p1/article.jhtml (628 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer, Movie-Maker from Saint John: Culture - Theatre: Heritage Resources Saint John
		Mayer knelt while stuffing scraps into a burlap sack the tailor began lamenting the minor aberrations of one of his own sons.
		Mayer caught on fast to the schemes and tricky maneuvers of his rivals, created the star system, borrowed, loaned, and traded big name actors as casually as a little boy down at Long Wharf swapping baseball cards.
		<b>Louisb> in later years recalled that it was at the Opera House he had seen his first movie.
	www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca /~Heritage/Theatre/LouisMayer.htm (720 words)

	MSN Encarta - Mayer, <b>Louisb> B(urt)
		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer (1885-1957), American motion picture executive, for 25 years the most powerful producer in Hollywood.
		In 1907 Mayer moved to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 1912.
		The last-named are prototypical of Mayer's favorite projects; they were family oriented, uplifting, patriotic, and bittersweet.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575338/Mayer_Louis_B(urt).html (164 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer
		Under Mayer's leadership, MGM had developed in the 30s into the Tiffany of Hollywood studios, with "more stars than there are in the heavens." A ruthless, quick-tempered, paternalistically tyrannical executive, Mayer ruled MGM as one big family, rewarding obedience, punishing insubordination, and regarding opposition as personal betrayal.
		In the 30s and 40s, Mayer was the most powerful magnate in Hollywood and his annual salary (plus bonuses), amounting to more than a million and a quarter dollars, was the highest paid any person in the United States.
		After being dethroned as MGM's boss in 1951, Mayer acted as advisor to the Cinerama corporation.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/mayer_l.htm (603 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer, Saint John, N.B.
		That's because <b>Louisb> B. Mayer, the Hollywood magnate who was born in Russia but raised in the Port City, is one of the charismatic figures explored in the film.
		Aside from being the grandson of <b>Louisb> B. Mayer, Selznick is also the son of David O. Selznick, a leader in the next generation of movie moguls and the, director of Gone With the Wind.
		The Telegraph reported that <b>Louisb> B. Mayer donated money for the construction of the chapel, but did not attend the event because of "pressure of business and poor health."
	new-brunswick.net /Saint_John/fame/mayer.html (1097 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer
		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer (4 de julio de 1885 - 29 de octubre de 1957) fue un productor de cine estadounidense.
		Mayer, M.G.M. and the Secret Hollywood.In this major biography of Hollywood mogul <b>Louisb> B.
		En 1917 fundó su propia companía de cine, <b>Louisb> B. Mayer Pictures, la cual eventualmente formó parte de Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
	enciclopedia.cc /Louis_B._Mayer (290 words)

	Product Reviews - Lion of Hollywood : The Life and Legend of <b>Louisb> B. Mayer - HDTVEdge.com - Get the HDTV Edge with the Latest News, Reviews and Hot Deals
		To read about <b>Louisb> B. Mayer and the amazing people he drew in around him, is to read about the minds behind the images that so profoundly affected all of us growing up in America in the last century--whether we realized it or not.
		While <b>Louisb> B. Mayer and his empire had its fair share of blemishes, the star power and creative output was extrordinary by any measure.
		While Eyman is fair in his depiction of the struggle between Mayer and Thalberg, Eyman found it necessary to choose sides in the Mayer Schary conflict in the last part of the book, possibly to "correct" the view of Mayer the Monster and Schary the savior in earlier Mayer bios.
	www.hdtvedge.com /reviews-0743204816.html (2485 words)

	The boss who built MGM's dream factory csmonitor.com
		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer is one of those larger-than-life Hollywood legends - à la Marilyn Monroe or Jimmy Dean - so familiar we think we know him.
		Mayer once objected to a scene in which Andy Hardy refuses his mother's cooking: "What kind of unnatural son would do that to his mother?" This is interesting because, in Eyman's view, the only woman LB ever truly loved was his mother.
		Rather, according to celebrity biographer Scott Eyman, the popular image of Mayer is an unfair cartoon - a vulgar bully who defined America's dream factory for the world but crushed the careers of those who crossed him, from starlets to fellow producers.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0531/p16s01-bogn.html (587 words)

	Lion Of Hollywood: The Life And Legend Of <b>Louisb> B. Mayer The A.V. Club
		Mayer, MGM, and Mayer's right-hand man Irving Thalberg became identified with the genius and the limitations of the studio system.
		Some hail Mayer as a brilliant executive who ruled benevolently over Hollywood's golden age; others deride him as a grasping, power-mad egomaniac who preached the gospel of God, family, and home in public, but presided over a sordid palace of sin.
		The emergence of television spelled that system's end, and after being deposed as the all-powerful monarch of MGM, Mayer was reduced to a comic-book Lear raging against a world he once ruled.
	avclub.com /content/node/25680 (495 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts features We're in the money
		<b>Louisb> B Mayer with child actor Jackie Cooper in 1933.
		His boss, <b>Louisb> B Mayer (head of the entire west-coast operation), would make more still by an agreement that gave him just over 10% of the studio profits.
		And whereas the younger Mayer had worked once in garbage collection, by 1927 he was the highest-paid man in the country and a friend to the president.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,,1666926,00.html (1655 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Mayer, <b>Louisb> B. motion-picture executive <b>Louisb> Burt Mayer ranked as the most powerful studio head in Hollywood from the late 1910s to the late 1940s.
		U.S. motion-picture executive <b>Louisb> Burt Mayer ranked as the most powerful studio head in Hollywood from the late 1910s to the late 1940s.
		film industry association founded in 1927 in Hollywood by studio executive <b>Louisb> B. Mayer and movie personalities; annual presentation of Academy awards, known as Oscars, to films and the actors, directors, writers, technicians, and others involved in making motion pictures; members include actors, directors, writers, cinematographers, producers, film editors, sound...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312398 (759 words)

	The Waldorf Conference: The Meeting That Began the Blacklist
		For four consecutive years <b>Louisb> B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in America, a reward he firmly believed sprang from his ability to give the public what they wanted by reflecting American ideals on the movie screen.
		Mayer, saw himself as the benign paterfamilias but could be a terror, both physical and verbal, in private.
		Mayer is acknowledged to have been a better actor than any he ever put under contract.
	www.waldorfconference.com /mayer.html (680 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - <b>Louisb> B. Mayer
		Loew also bought up controlling interests in the Goldwyn company and in <b>Louisb> B. Mayer Pictures; the result was MGM, and Mayer was appointed vice-president.
		It was Mayer who set the tone of the studio and he quickly became a grandfather figure to all.
		The conservative Mayer was also politically active and served as the California state chairman of the Republican party for many years.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/109560/bio.jhtml (436 words)

	TIME 100: Builders & Titans - <b>Louisb> B. Mayer
		A major step up for Mayer was entertainment tycoon Marcus Loew's reaching out to him as commanding officer of a new company merging Metro and Goldwyn, with Mayer soon adding his big M to the mix.
		While the other early moguls were simply trying to make the best movies they could, young Mayer was an ideologue intent on using the power of the new medium to exert what he considered the proper moral influence on the American public.
		Motherhood, the Stars and Stripes and God were equal parts of a lifelong strategy that would establish Metro Goldwyn Mayer as the industry's dominant film factory, from the silent era through the talkies revolution.
	www.time.com /time/time100/profile/mayer.html (557 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer Library
		Founded in 1969, the <b>Louisb> B. Mayer Library is designed and devoted to serve the research needs of the staff of the American Film Institute and the faculty and students of the AFI's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies.
		The library is also available on a non-circulating basis to visiting scholars, researchers, and advanced graduate students, as well as members of the entertainment industry.
		These materials do not circulate to any user and in most cases cannot be photocopied or mechanically reproduced (audio, video, photographed or input into a computer) in any manner of format.
	www.afi.com /about/library.aspx (731 words)

	The religion of <b>Louisb> B. Mayer, movie producer
		<b>Louisb> Mayer comically attempted to live like a 19th-century aristocrat, forcing his daughter to have riding lessons every day.
		Whilst <b>Louisb> Mayer would have been trying everything to get a photograph of himself shaking hands with Prince Charles during his three-day visit (or escape) to LA, today's breed of super-mogul couldn't care less.
		Wherever they came from, the United States, Canada or Europe, they all looked the way <b>Louisb> B. Mayer, a Jew born in Russia and reared in Canada, imagined American women should look: fair-cheeked and vaguely Anglo-Saxon, with roots that seemed to extend all the way back to the Mayflower.
	www.adherents.com /people/pm/Louis_Mayer.html (793 words)

	Merchant of Dreams: <b>Louisb> B. Mayer, M.G.M., and the Secret Hollywood
		Its more believable that he had long conversations with Howard Strickling, since Strickling was head of MGMs publicity department during the reign of <b>Louisb> B Mayer, and the one responsible for the covering up of the secret lives of the stars.
		Hollywood East: <b>Louisb> B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio System
		Ted Healy died from injuries suffered in a bar brawl, kidney failure, and alcoholism, not from a heart attack brought on by Mayer.
	www.wkonline.com /a/Merchant_of_Dreams_1556113455.htm (707 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer
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		Mayer grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0562454 (201 words)

	World of Quotes - <b>Louisb> B Mayer Quotes.
		World of Quotes - <b>Louisb> B Mayer Quotes.
		1 Quotes for '<b>Louisb> B Mayer' in the Database.
		:: Author » Letter "L" » <b>Louisb> B Mayer
	www.worldofquotes.com /author/Louis-B-Mayer/1/index.html (48 words)

	executive Irving Thalberg to <b>Louisb> B. Mayer about film rights to "Gone With the Wind". Cerf/Navasky "The Experts Sp - ART MGM Fortunes
		Source: MGM executive Irving Thalberg to <b>Louisb> B. Mayer about film rights to "Gone With the Wind".
		Google Image Search - MGM executive Irving Thalberg to <b>Louisb> B. Mayer about film rights to "Gone With the Wind".
		executive Irving Thalberg to <b>Louisb> B. Mayer about film rights to "Gone With the Wind".
	fortunes.quotationsbook.com /fortunes/view/312/ART (240 words)

	Ridley Scott Plans "Citizen Kane" Movie - Feb 19, 1997 - E! Online News
		Still, Parsons launched a campaign to ban the film and have it destroyed, appealing to <b>Louisb> B. Mayer, head of MGM, for help.
		The New York Times reported that Mayer offered RKO president George J. Schaefer $800,000 to destroy all the prints and negatives of Citizen Kane.
		With Hearst papers attacking the film on all sides, and all the other studios refusing to let their theaters screen it, Schaefer stood behind Kane.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,691,00.html (413 words)

	<b>Louisb> B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences May 11 in History
		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences May 11 in History
		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1927/may_11_1927_86657.html (48 words)

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		<b>Louisb> B. Mayer, Movie-Maker from Saint John Lots of Hollywood stories are told about <b>Louisb> B. Mayer, but usually the first reel is missing.
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	rotteneggs.com /r/show/se/1051636.html (360 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Margaret Booth : Biography
		In 1921 she was hired as an assistant film editor by independent producer <b>Louisb> B. Mayer.
		The sister of Broadway and film actor Elmer Booth, Margaret Booth entered films as a patcher, or film joiner, for D.W. Griffith.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/72603/bio.jhtml (236 words)

	Motion picture sound recording (The American Film Institute/ <b>Louisb> B. Mayer oral history collection, pt. 1)
		Motion picture sound recording (The American Film Institute/ <b>Louisb> B. Mayer oral history collection, pt.
		Book / Motion picture sound recording (The American Film Institute/ <b>Louisb> B. Mayer oral history collection, pt.
	www.broadwaymidi.com /broadway/asinsearch_B00070RZ4W/index.html (94 words)

	<b>Louisb> B Mayer Library - Community & Social Services - Los Angeles, CA, 90027-1625 - Citysearch
		<b>Louisb> B Mayer Library - Community & Social Services - Los Angeles, CA, 90027-1625 - Citysearch
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	losangeles.citysearch.com /profile/53370 (159 words)

	Biography: <b>LOUISb> B. MAYER Video
		Biography paints the picture of this self-made, controversial opportunist who built one of the most powerful empires in entertainment history.
		Home -> Artists -> Artists Starting with B -> Biography Videos
	www.fattvideos.com /dvd_video/76164/BIOGRAPHY_LOUIS_B_MAYER (53 words)

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