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Louis B. Mayer
American movie producer, born Eliezer (Lazar) Mayer on July
4, 1885 in Minsk. Mayer began (1907) as the operator of a small rundown motion
picture theater in Haverhill, Massachusetts gradually gaining control of all the
theaters in the city. Within a few years he owned the largest theater chain in
New England. In 1916 he moved to Los Angeles and formed his own producing
company merging his Louis B. Mayer Corp. with Metro Pictures Corp in 1924. The
company mereged again with the with Goldwyn Pictures Corp and was called
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Mayer, one of Hollywood's most powerful film tycoons, was a
great judge of talent and popular taste. He helped to develop the star system,
and oversaw such productions as Ben Hur (1926), Grand Hotel
(1932), the Andy Hardy series, and Ninotchka (1939). He was the
founder of the Acadenmy Awars in 1927. Mayer annual salary (plus
bonuses) during the depression was over a million dollars, made him the highest
paid person in the United States. Mayer wasa staunch conservative and very
active in politics. He served as the Republican Committee State Chairman
in California. In 1951 he entered into a power struggle with Dore
Schary for MGM and was ousted. Mayer tried to stage a boardroom coup but
failed and largely retired from public life.
Louis B. Mayer died on October 29, 1957of kidney
failure. He is interred in the Home of Peace Cemetery in Los
Angeles, California. His last words were, "Nothing matters."
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