Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1924-) is a motion picture, television, home video, and theatrical production and distribution company.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) was established in 1924 as a merger between Metro Pictures Corp., Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions. MGM experienced a "golden three decades" between 1924 and 1954, in which it produced a Best Picture nominee every year for 20 years straight. In 1939, both Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz were nominated for Best Picture. Gone With the Wind won, along with eight other Oscars, and The Wizard of Oz won two Oscars. MGM has over 175 Oscars across its library.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, via WWW, October 4, 2017 (all above)

Found in 603 Collections and/or Records:

Videotapes, 1914-1963

Series

Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 19

Scope and Contents The videotapes in this series are from 16 mm Prints of the 35 mm nitrate prints preserved at the George Eastman House of Photograph, Rochester, New York. They were recorded on half-inch VHS videotape (NTSC standard) and consist of 34 feature films produced during the silent film years. Each 16 mm component reel is recorded on its own videocassette, which accounts for more ant one videocassette listed for certain features. There are two tapes of location scouting footage fro the unproduced...

Dates: 1914-1963

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1400, Cecil B. DeMille papers

Views on various subjects

Sub-Series

Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 6

Scope and Contents From the Series: Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...

Dates: 1913-1958

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1400, Cecil B. DeMille papers / Personal / Autobiography files--research

William Churchill deMille, 1895-1896

Sub-Series

Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 1 Sub-Series 5

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains genealogical charts, correspondence, and research relating to DeMille's ancestry as compiled by Louis DeBoer, a genealogist retained by DeMille for many years. Also included in this series is correspondence relating specifically to Frederic A. Adams (father-in-law), Constance Adams DeMille (wife), Henry C. DeMille (father), Beatrice Samuel DeMille (mother), William C. deMille (brother), and Cecilia deMille Harper (daughter).

Dates: 1895-1896

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1400, Cecil B. DeMille papers / Family

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