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 605 Collections and/or Records:
Legal
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 8 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
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In late 1924, DeMille purchased the Thomas Ince Studio in Culver City and renamed the facility DeMille Studio. This series of 35 boxes documents the nearly four-year lifespan of the organization and contains two main parts: the first deals with general financial and business correspondence and story properties from 1925 to 1928, and is arranged alphabetically ; the second part is comprised of film production files from the same period including 13 boxes of material on The Road to Yesterday,...
Dates:
1926-1958
Lux Radio Theatre, 1936-1963
Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 14
Scope and Contents
The 77 boxes in this series contain annotated radio scripts, correspondence, and listener response during the nine years that DeMille was master of ceremonies (1936-1945). There is also a box of file cards containing listener-generated story suggestions. Titles are arranged chronologically, followed by the actors--and in parentheses the names of any special guests for that evening's broadcast. See also: Cecil B. DeMille Productions, Personal, and Scrapbooks.
Dates:
1936-1963
Madam Satan, 1929-1930
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 9 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 2
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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:
1929-1930
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1928-1931
Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 9
Scope and Contents
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:
1928-1931
Miscellaneous
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 6 Sub-Series 4
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These files are listed chronologically from 1868 to 1936 and are comprised of plays written by Henry C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille, William deMille, and David Belasco. Some are holographs, some are typescripts, and some are professionally printed and published. Many are annotated. Also in this series of 11 boxes is correspondence and material relating to the theater business of the family. See also: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company/ Famous Players-Lasky Film Corporation.
Dates:
1868-1936
Miscellaneous, 1942-1945
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 27
Scope and Contents
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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:
1942-1945
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1952-1957
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 16 Sub-Series 26 Sub-Series Sub-Sub-Sub-Sub- 3
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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:
1952-1957
Motion Picture Associates: Cumulative Profit and Loss Statements/Participation Statement, Schedule of Income Billings, 1935-1980
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 11 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
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Cecil B. DeMille Pictures was initially formed in the 1920s when DeMille operated his own studio. Another organization, utilizing the same name appeared in the records in 1933, but was not fully operational until 1937. DeMille Pictures was dissolved as an active company in 1952, although minutes of meetings carry the company name up to 1970. These files, consisting of 4 boxes, contain articles of incorporation and minutes of meetings. Also included are Cumulative Profit and Loss...
Dates:
1935-1980
Motion picture cost and gross statements, 1933-1959
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 5 Sub-Series 4
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:
1933-1959
Motion picture production files, 1932-1959
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 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:
1932-1959
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- Archival Object 601
- Collection 4
- Subject
- Letters 603
- Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography 602
- Scrapbooks 572
- Drawings 571
- Feature films 571
- 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 + ∧ less
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