Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Organization
Administrative History
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 571 Collections and/or Records:
Script development--synopsis, 1949-1950
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 15 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1949-1950
Script development--synopsis and scenarios, 1938-1940
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 10 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1938-1940
Script development--synopsis and scenarios, 1940-1941
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 11 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1940-1941
Script development--synopsis and scenarios, 1942-1943
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 12 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1942-1943
Script development--synopsis and scenarios, 1945-1946
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 13 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1945-1946
Script development--synopsis and scenarios, 1934-1948
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 14 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1934-1948
Script development--synopsis, scenarios, and drafts
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 9 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The 10 boxes comprising this series document DeMille's nearly four years at MGM, 1928 to 1931. The records are grouped under general correspondence, arranged chronologically, but alphabetically within each year by name, organization, or activity. The second group, Motion Picture Production Files, contains a limited number of treatments, scenarios, script drafts, casting information, and preview cards relating to Dynamite, Madam Satan, and the third version of The Squaw Man.
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Dates:
1928-1929
Script development--synopsis, scenarios, and drafts
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 9 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The 10 boxes comprising this series document DeMille's nearly four years at MGM, 1928 to 1931. The records are grouped under general correspondence, arranged chronologically, but alphabetically within each year by name, organization, or activity. The second group, Motion Picture Production Files, contains a limited number of treatments, scenarios, script drafts, casting information, and preview cards relating to Dynamite, Madam Satan, and the third version of The Squaw Man.
See also:...
Dates:
1930-1931
Script development--treatments, drafts, and scripts, 1933-1934
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In 1932 DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures after an eight-year absence. There he set up his own production entity know to those on his Paramount lot as the DeMille Unit. This series is the largest single group of material in the DeMille Archives, numbering 450 boxes. It is organized into two main groups: General Correspondence and Motion Picture Production Files.General Correspondence is arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year by individual,...
Dates:
1933-1934
Scripts, 1914-1956
Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 17
Scope and Contents
This series contains 8 boxes of photocopied shooting scripts from the originals used by DeMille. (The originals are archived at the University of Southern California.) They are arranged chronologically, as DeMille maintained them. One of the final installments of the collection consisted of drawers full of originals scripts kept apart from the main collection. Because of their belated arrival, they were not interfiled in the production files. These 30 boxes of scripts contain story...
Dates:
1914-1956
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