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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.

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

Found in 605 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Churchill DeMille, 1853-1892

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 1 Sub-Series 3
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: 1853-1892
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Family

Henry Wilcoxon, 1958

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 5 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series of 6 boxes contains correspondence, notes and desk calendars (1933-1965), and appointment books of key DeMille employees: Florence Cole (secretary), Gladys Rosson (secretary), Joseph W. Harper (businessman and son-in-law), Henry Wilcoxon (associate producer), Russell A. Treacy (business manager), and Stella Stray (DeMille's first employee, a secretary, hired in 1913).

Dates: 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Personnel

Index to actors in C. B. DeMille motion pictures

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 11
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: 1919-1965
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Personal / Inventories, indexes, lists, correspondence

Index to recordings-discography

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 13
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: 1919-1965
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Personal / Inventories, indexes, lists, correspondence

Inventories, 1919-1937

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 8
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: 1919-1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Personal / Inventories, indexes, lists, correspondence

Inventories, indexes, lists, correspondence, 1919-1965

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 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: 1919-1965
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Personal

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company/Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, 1913-1939

 Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 7
Scope and Contents This series of 20 boxes contains material from 1913, the beginning of DeMille's motion picture career, to 1924. The files are arranged chronologically and within each year alphabetically by film title.Production files often contain treatments, play scripts, tinting guides, scenarios, music scores, contracts, financial statements, story files, story contest submissions, anc censorship notes. The series concludes with the files of story editor Ella King Adams. The films of this...
Dates: 1913-1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers

Joseph W. Harper, 1959-1963

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 5 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series of 6 boxes contains correspondence, notes and desk calendars (1933-1965), and appointment books of key DeMille employees: Florence Cole (secretary), Gladys Rosson (secretary), Joseph W. Harper (businessman and son-in-law), Henry Wilcoxon (associate producer), Russell A. Treacy (business manager), and Stella Stray (DeMille's first employee, a secretary, hired in 1913).

Dates: 1959-1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Personnel

Joseph W. Harper Files, 1926-1963

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 12 Sub-Series 40
Scope and Contents From the Series: Found in ths series of 261 boxes are files relating to the activities of DeMille Productions, beginning in 1916. They include financial records and ledgers from 1916 to 1952. The extensive correspondence fields (1922-1959) are arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year. The original order maintained in these files often includes years other than those indicated by the file heading. Files from preceding years were occasionally brought froward for reference or for...
Dates: 1926-1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Cecil B. DeMille Productions

Land of Liberty, 1915-1939

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 9
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: 1915-1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Cecil B. DeMille papers / Paramount Pictures / Motion picture production files

Additional filters:

Type
Archival Object 601
Collection 4
 
Subject
Letters 603
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography 602
Scrapbooks 572
Drawings 571
Feature films 571
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Paintings 571
Photographic prints 571
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) 571
Speeches, addresses, etc., American 571
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 33
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- History 32
Motion picture industry -- United States -- History 32
Motion picture plays -- History and criticism 32
Motion picture studios -- United States -- History 32
Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery -- United States -- History 32
Motion pictures -- United States -- History 32
Performing Arts 32
Motion pictures -- Production and direction 2
Account books 1
Compact discs 1
Contracts 1
Correspondence 1
Culver City (Calif.) 1
Material Types 1
Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah) 1
Motion picture plays 1
Motion pictures 1
Performing arts 1
Photographs 1
Tax returns 1
Wizard of Oz (Motion picture : 1939) 1
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