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MGM Stories | John Gilbert and Greta Garbo
Oct 06, 2015Rising romantic lead John Gilbert signed with MGM in 1924 and the next year he starred in King Vidor’s The Big Parade, the studio’s biggest hit of the silent era. That same year, Louis B. Mayer brough...
MGM Stories | William Haines and Hollywood’s First Openly Gay Marriage
Oct 13, 2015The rare silent star who made a relatively smooth transition to sound films, William “Billy” Haines was one of the top box office stars of the late 1920s-early 1930s. Beginning in 1926, Haines started...
MGM Stories | Jean Harlow
Oct 20, 2015As part of the publicity campaign for his film Hell’s Angels, Howard Hughes made Jean Harlow a star, branding her “The Platinum Blonde.” But after Hell’s Angels, Hughes couldn’t figure out what to do ...
MGM Stories | MGM's children: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
Oct 27, 2015After Irving Thalberg’s death in 1936, Louis B. Mayer doubled down on "family entertainment" at MGM. To support this new wave of content, Mayer started signing younger and younger performers to groom ...
MGM Stories | Eddie Mannix
Nov 03, 2015In the new Hollywood satire from the Coen Brothers, Josh Brolin plays a studio "fixer" named Eddie Mannix. The real Eddie Mannix was a New Jersey-born reputed gangster who rose through the ranks at MG...
MGM Stories | Spencer Tracy
Nov 10, 2015When Spencer Tracy signed with MGM, he was a character actor better known for his problem drinking (and very public extramarital affair with Loretta Young) than for his movie hits. But the studio made...
MGM Stories | David O. Selznick Part One: The Mayers and Gone With the Wind
Nov 17, 2015In 1930, after putting in time at MGM and RKO, Paramount executive David O. Selznick married Irene Mayer, the daughter of L.B. Mayer. Irene’s father would soon thereafter bring Selznick to MGM to fill...
MGM Stories | David O. Selznick Part Two: Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker
Nov 24, 2015In 1941, Selznick signed a young actress named Phylis, who was then married to actor Robert Walker. Selznick renamed Phylis “Jennifer Jones,” and set to work turning her into a star, helping her to ea...
MGM Stories | Lana Turner
Dec 01, 2015The legendary "Sweater Girl" was one of MGM’s prized contract players, the epitome of the mid-century sex goddess on-screen and an unlucky-in-love single mom off-screen who would burn through seven hu...
MGM Stories | Gloria Grahame
Dec 08, 2015Gloria Grahame arrived in Hollywood in 1944, after Louis B. Mayer personally plucked her from the New York stage, and changed her name. But Grahame was the rare actress who Mayer didn’t know how to tu...