Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (MGM), also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution. Founded on April 17, 1924 and based in Beverly Hills, California, it is the primary asset of MGM Holdings, which has been owned by Amazon since March 17, 2022.

MGM was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures into one company. It hired a number of well-known actors as contract players—its slogan was "more stars than there are in heaven"—and soon became Hollywood's most prestigious film studio, producing popular musical films and winning many Academy Awards. MGM also owned film studios, movie lots, movie theaters and technical production facilities. Its most prosperous era, from 1926 to 1959, was bracketed by two productions of Ben Hur. It divested itself of the Loews movie theater chain and, in 1956, expanded into television production.

In 1969, businessman and investor Kirk Kerkorian bought 40% of MGM and dramatically changed the operation and direction of the studio. He hired new management, reduced the studio's output to about five films per year, and diversified its products, creating MGM Resorts International and a Las Vegas-based hotel and casino company (which it later divested in the 1980s). In 1980, the studio acquired United Artists. Kerkorian sold MGM to Ted Turner in 1986, who retained the rights to the MGM film library, sold the studio lot in Culver City to Lorimar, and sold the remnants of MGM back to Kerkorian a few months later. After Kerkorian sold and reacquired the company again in the 1990s, he expanded MGM by purchasing Orion Pictures and the Samuel Goldwyn Company, including both of their film libraries. Finally, in 2004, Kerkorian sold MGM to a consortium that included Sony Pictures.

In 2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and reorganization. After reorganization, it emerged from bankruptcy later that year under its creditors' ownership. Two former executives at Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, became co-chairmen and co-CEOs of MGM's new holding company. After Barber's departure in 2018, the studio sought to be acquired by another company to pay its creditors. In May 2021, Amazon acquired MGM for $8.45 billion; the deal closed in March 2022. As of 2023, its major franchises include Rocky and James Bond and one of its most recent television productions is The Handmaid's Tale.

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1928 - 1932

Roles Represented in DAHR: Motion picture production company

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Recordings (Results 76-100 of 554 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor MVE-56951 16-in. 10/24/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 209 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56952 16-in. 10/24/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 208 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56971 16-in. 10/31/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 210 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-56972 16-in. 10/31/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 211 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57812 16-in. 11/27/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 218 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57813 16-in. 11/27/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 219 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57831 16-in. 12/5/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 220 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57832 16-in. 12/5/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 221 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57862 16-in. 12/12/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 223 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57863 16-in. 12/12/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 222 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57864 16-in. 12/13/1929 The duke steps out Thomas Arbella Motion picture soundtrack : Re-recording from film, with announcing and record (cheering) Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57865 16-in. 12/13/1929 The duke steps out Raymond Lange Motion picture soundtrack : Re-recording from film, with dialogue and dubbed recording Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57880 16-in. 12/19/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 224 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57881 16-in. 12/19/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 225 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57898 16-in. 12/26/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 227 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-57899 16-in. 12/26/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 226 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58002 16-in. 11/7/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 212 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58003 16-in. 11/7/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 213 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58014 16-in. 11/13/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 214 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58015 16-in. 11/13/1929 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 215 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58067 16-in. 11/21/1929 Hearst Movietone news. No. 216 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58068 16-in. 11/21/1929 Hearst Movietone news. No. 217 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58410 16-in. 12/27/1929 The duke steps out Fritz Scharf Motion picture soundtrack : Dialogue, with re-recording from film and 2 records (mumbling and cheering) Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58415 16-in. 1/2/1930 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 228 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
Victor MVE-58416 16-in. 1/2/1930 Hearst Metrotone news. No. 229 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion picture soundtrack : Film to wax transfer Motion picture production company  
(Results 76-100 of 554 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer," accessed November 21, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102679.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102679.

"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 21 November 2024.

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