Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957 - 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:: From left to right: film producer Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens in the luncheon room at the Biltmore Hotel where 400 leading Californians had gathered to discuss the campaign to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mr. Mayer spoke at the meeting saying, "this battle is not for greed or power, but for human good without distinction of race or creed" and acknowledged the presence of Rabbi Magnin and Bishop Stevens (among others) as a sign that we live in a "land where men of different faiths combine to aid humanity"
Date:: December 12, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: From left to right: film producer Louis B. Mayer, Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, and Bishop Bertrand Stevens in the luncheon room at the Biltmore Hotel where 400 leading Californians had gathered to discuss the campaign to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mr. Mayer spoke at the meeting saying, "this battle is not for greed or power, but for human good without distinction of race or creed" and acknowledged the presence of Rabbi Magnin and Bishop Stevens (among others) as a sign that we live in a "land where men of different faiths combine to aid humanity"
Date:: December 12, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Prominent figures in the motion picture industry: Frank Lloyd, Joseph M. Schenck, George Jessel, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer and Jesse Lasky seated together at a banquet table
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

Description:: A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Sultan and Wife Visit at Studio," Los Angeles Times, 08 May 1934: A2.
Date:: May 7, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Sultan and Sultana stand between Jeanette and Mayer outside of MGM Studios.
Date:: [circa 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Republican Call Voiced: Arizonan Talks at Rally: Mrs. Hoyal Demands Battle That Will Bring End to New Deal Fallacies," 13 Aug. 1935: A1.
Date:: August 12, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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