LOUIS B. MAYER - MERVYN LEROY - 10X8 - VTG - MGM - AA - IRVING THALBERG
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LOUIS B. MAYER / MERVYN LEROYMayer signing LeRoy's MGM ContractVintage, unsigned photograph, 10" x 8", sepia, single weight; with typed snipe on versoCondition: light print; right top corner creaseLouis B. Mayer was an American producer and co-founder, with Samuel Goldwyn and Marcus Loew, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1924. Over the next 25 years, MGM would produce more films and movie stars than any other studio; home to stars like Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford.Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. He was the versatile director of such explosive dramas as Little Caesar (1931) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) and such lush romances as Waterloo Bridge (1940) and Random Harvest (1942). He directed the musical Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933). the biographical Madame Curie (1943), the wartime drama Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), the religious epic Quo Vadis (1951), and the comedy Mister Roberts (1955). As head of production at MGM he was responsible for the decision to make The Wizard of Oz (1939). Received an honorary Academy Award for The House I Live In (1945), a ten-minute short starring Frank Sinatra made to oppose anti-Semitism and racial prejudice after WWII. In 1976 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.Louis B. Mayer, born: 1894, Minsk, Russian
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