Louis B. Mayer

Canadian-American film producer (1884–1957)

Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. 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 born in either Minsk or Dymer, then both part of the Russian Empire and grew up poor in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

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