Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

NORMA SHEARER – Hollywood Dreams Made Real

source: SanFranciscoSentinel.com

Sign up for our Email Newsletter Happy Birthday, Norma! CRITIC’S CHOICE: Hollywood Dreams Made Real Irving Thalberg and the Rise of M-G-M By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka A recent book by Mark A.Viera, Hollywood Dreams Made Real, tells the story of...

Published Mon, Aug 10

MGM hires adviser to restructure debt: reports

source: Melbourne Herald Sun

 Australia HOLLYWOOD studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has hired investment bank Moelis & Co to help it restructure mammoth debts of about $US3.7 billion ($4.87 billion), several media reports say. The studio behind classics such as the James Bond films and The Wizard ...

Published Fri, May 15

MGM hires help in refinancing $3.7-billion loan

source: My Fox Colorado.com

 CO By Claudia Eller Debt-burdened Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is scrambling to refinance a $3.7-billion loan that could help put it back on a footing with the major Hollywood studios. The once major studio disclosed that it had hired investment banking firm ...

Published Fri, May 15

"Slumdog" child star's Mumbai shanty home torn down

source: Washington Post

 United States LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood studio Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer has hired investment bank Moelis & Co to refinance $3.7 billion debt held by about 140 creditors, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The source said the creditors have ...

Published Thu, May 14

The Last Alcoholic Days of F. Scott Fitzgerald - Journal of American Medical Association

source: Journal of American Medical Association

subscription), IL 6 In 1937, Fitzgerald somehow managed to convince his agent, Harold Ober, to wrangle him a job as a contract writer for the fabled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios. He had flirted with Hollywood before, but this was his first real job in the Dream ...

Published Tue, May 12

On This Day in History: May 11

source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle

 NY Although the show was a failure, Silvers' performance won him a $500-a-week contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After he arrived in Hollywood, MGM allowed his contract to lapse. Silvers made his film debut in The Hit Parade in 1940, then appeared in 23 ...

Published Mon, May 11

Fast & Furious

source: Screen Weekly

Fast & Furious  India Trivia hunters will also be interested to know that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)'s Tarzan Goes To India, a 1962 Hollywood film directed by top-line director John Guillermin, who later made films like The Towering Inferno and The Tracker, featured Khan in ...

Published Thu, May 7

Game show features former Edsonite

source: Edson Leader

  Canada - Ed Moore The studio where Wheel of Fortune is filmed used to be part of the sprawling Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Studios in West Hollywood, which were bought out by Sony Studios. MGM made scores of musicals in the 30s and early-40s, many of which Keeler starred ...

Published Mon, May 4