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.
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"
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"
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
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."
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.
The Royal party traveling with Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden watches a movie being made at the MGM Studio, with the Crown Princess Louise of Sweden (3rd from left in a white dress and hat), MGM vice-president Louis B. Mayer (5th form left with a handkerchief in his suit pocket and wearing glasses), and Lois Frances Booth, wife of Prince Erik Count of Rosenberg (wearing a large white hat, 3rd from right). Reported with other photographs in "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.
Louis B. Mayer (center) hosts Crown Princess Louise of Sweden (left) and Lois Frances Booth, wife of Prince Erik Count of Rosenberg during a tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio. Reported with other photographs in "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.
The Royal party traveling with Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden walking at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studio with the prince (right), Louis B. Mayer (2nd from right), the Crown Princess Louise of Sweden (left), and other unidentified people with the group. Reported with other photographs in "Motion-Picture Industry Acts as Host to Future King and Queen During Day of Entertainment..." Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1926: A1.