Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957 / Subject: Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Louis B. Mayer, film producer and studio executive at MGM, pitches a baseball in front of a crowd of spectators. Mayer served as studio boss at MGM and produced films with stars like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and Katharine Hepburn.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of United States Vice-President Charles Curtis and Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy from 1929-1933 Ernest Lee Jahncke being received by the Reception Committee at Los Angeles for the 10th Olympic Games. The committee consisted of [not limited to] Col. William May Garland, Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter and Motion Picture producer Louis B. Mayer. They all wear badges on their lapels that read, "Reception."
Date:: July 29, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Michael Balcon hopes to return to England and produce films as good as those with American backgrounds, if not better. Representative lawyer of M.G.M. and Fox Paul Koretz observes that Hollywood became famous for motion pictures while Vienna, Austria, became famous for its' composers.
Date:: March 15, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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