Moviegoers nowadays might not know much of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios’ history outside of its iconic mascot, a lion who introduced each film with it’s iconic roar. It was an introduction that was ...

"To the director who can stylize his direction there is an ever-increasing opportunity substantially to improve the box-office value of the material and the cast with which he is working," wrote the ...

Producer Irving Thalberg was called the Boy Wonder of Hollywood. By age 20 he ran Universal Pictures, and at age 24 he co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His status was so large, in fact, that F. Scott ...

One of the early champions of test screenings was Irving Thalberg. One film transformed by that method is recalled in this excerpt from “Anita Loos Rediscovered,” a biography interwoven with fiction ...

At the peak of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences knew the name of the studio on the silver screen signaled something wonderful was about to begin. “If they would go to a ...