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:
Motion picture production files, 1926-1958
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 8 Sub-Series 2
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
Motion picture production files, 1928-1930
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 9 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
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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:
1928-1930
Motion pictures, 1913-1958
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 2
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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:
1913-1958
Motion Pictures: Cumulative Earnings Statements, 1916-1961
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 12 Sub-Series 45
Scope and Contents
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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:
1916-1961
Non-political, 1927-1958
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 3 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents
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This series of 15 boxes contains speeches, requests for speeches, and related correspondence. Final drafts and notes on individual speeches are available dating from 1927 to 1958. Some were designated "political" or "non-political" in nature and are filed alphabetically by location or organization where the speech was delivered. Some speeches are chronologically.
Dates:
1927-1958
North West Mounted Police, 1938-1940
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 10
Scope and Contents
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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
Others, 1942
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 5 Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents
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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:
1942
Outside studio correspondence
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 16 Sub-Series 26 Sub-Series Sub-Sub-Sub-Sub- 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:
1954-1957
Pail bills, 1954-1958
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 5 Sub-Series 3
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:
1954-1958
Paramount Pictures, 1926-1959
Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 10
Scope and Contents
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:
1926-1959
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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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