Organization: metro goldwyn mayer

Michael De Luca Profile Picture
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Michael De Luca

American film studio executive.

Former president of production at both New Line Cinema and DreamWorks.

Chairman of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion Picture Group.

Fun Fact:

De Luca has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Picture.

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Michael De Luca

May 10, 2022
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Marcus Loew

American business magnate and pioneer of the motion picture industry.

Formed Loew's Theatres and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film studio.

Fun Fact:

A few months before Loew's death in 1927, Joseph P. Kennedy invited him to take part in a lecture series at Harvard University on the film industry.

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Marcus Loew

May 1, 2022
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Louis B. Mayer

Co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, an American media company.

Fun Fact:

Mayer became the first Hollywood executive in America to earn a million-dollar salary. He was also the most famous of the studio moguls during the Golden Age of Hollywood. His daughter Edith married William Goetz, another Jewish film mogul who became Vice President of 20th Century Fox.

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Louis B. Mayer

May 1, 2022
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Samuel Goldwyn

Polish-American film producer.

Founding contributor and executive of several Hollywood studios.

Fun Fact:

Goldwyn's namesake film making enterprise, Goldwyn Pictures, was acquired by Marcus Loew in 1924 and merged into Metro Pictures, becoming Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer. Despite it carrying his namesake, Goldwyn never participated in ownership, management, or production at MGM.

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Samuel Goldwyn

May 1, 2022
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