Louis B. Mayer

Known for: Production
Born: July 12, 1884, Dymer, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyshhorod Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine]
Died: October 29, 1957
Movies: 44

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Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir in the Russian Empire; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM). Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors and stars in Hollywood. Mayer was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Best-Known Movies

7.3

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925

6.2

1925 Studio Tour

1925

4.9

Seeing Stars

1922

7.4

Sid & Judy

2019

6.6

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

2006

7.5

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009

5.8

I Take This Woman

1940

8.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995

7.5

So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM

2004

7.4

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

Filmography

2025	Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood	Self (archive footage)
2022	Rat Pack	Self (archive footage)
2019	Sid & Judy	Self (archive photos)
2009	1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year	Self (archive footage)
2006	Stardust: The Bette Davis Story	Self (archive footage)
2004	So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM	Self (archive footage)
2004	Judy Garland: By Myself	Self (archive footage)
2004	Checking Out: Grand Hotel	Self (archive footage)
2003	Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine
1995	The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies	Self (archive footage)
1987	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)
1986	Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown	Self (archive footage)
1982	Showbiz Goes to War	(archive footage)
1972	Hollywood: The Dream Factory	Self (archive footage)
1952	Actors and Sin	Louis B. Mayer (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
1938	Another Romance of Celluloid	Self (uncredited)
1937	The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention	Himself
1926	Vårt kronprinspar i Hollywood
1925	1925 Studio Tour	Self
1922	Seeing Stars	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

1940	I Take This Woman	Producer
1928	Detectives	Producer
1925	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Producer
1925	Man and Maid	Producer
1924	Wine of Youth	Producer
1924	Thy Name Is Woman	Producer
1923	Strangers of the Night	Producer
1922	Rose o' the Sea	Producer
1922	The Woman He Married	Producer
1921	Playthings of Destiny	Producer
1921	Habit	Producer
1920	Harriet and the Piper	Producer
1920	The Inferior Sex	Producer
1920	The Fighting Shepherdess	Producer
1919	Human Desire	Producer
1919	Her Kingdom of Dreams	Producer
1919	Mary Regan	Producer
1919	A Midnight Romance	Producer
1918	Virtuous Wives	Producer
1917	The Great Secret	Producer
1916	Lovely Mary	Producer
1916	Dimples	Producer
1915	Barbara Frietchie	Producer
1915	Always in the Way	Producer

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