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First Name

Louis

Last Name

Mayer

Middle Name

Height

Build

Large

Eye Color

Brown - Dark

Hair Color

Grey

Place of Birth

Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire

Star Sign

Cancer

Date of Death

29 October 1957

Place of Death

Los Angeles, California

Cause of Death

Leukemia

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Jewish

Claim to Fame

Head of MGM Studio

Gender

Male

Nationality

Russian

Wikipedia Text

Louis Burt Mayer (July 12, 1884 � October 29, 1957) born Lazar Meir (Russian: ) was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years. Known always as Louis B. Mayer and often simply as "L.B.", he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had "more stars than there are in the heavens".

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Mayer was born Lazar Mayer in the Ukraine and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after his parents fled Russian oppression in 1886. He had a brutal childhood, raised in poverty and suffering physical and emotional abuse from his nearly-illiterate peddler father. In the early 1890s, he changed his name to Louis and fudged his birth date to reflect the more "patriotic" date of July 4, 1885. He moved to Boston in 1904 and struggled as a scrap-metal dealer until he was able to purchase a burlesque house. Although he made large sums by showing films (he made a sizable fortune off The Birth of a Nation (1915)), his early business ventures favored legitimate theater in New England. As his theater empire expanded, he had acquired and refurbished enough small movie theaters that he was able to move his business to Los Angeles and venture into movie production in 1918. Along with Samuel Goldwyn and Marcus Loew of Metro Pictures, he formed a new company called Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Over the next 25 years, MGM was "the Tiffany of the studios," producing more films and movie stars than any other studio in the world. Mayer became the prime creator of the enduring Hollywood of myth, home to stars like Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, and Jean Harlow. Mayer became the highest-paid man in America, one of the country`s most successful horse breeders, a political force and Hollywood`s leading spokesman. Both he and MGM reached their peaks at the end of World War II, and Mayer was forced out in 1951. He died of leukemia in 1957.

Full Name at Birth

Ezemiel Mayer

Count - Awards

Father

Jacob Mayer

Mother

Sarah Mayer

Brother

Jerry Mayer, Rudolph Mayer

Sister

Yetta Mayer, Ida Mayer

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