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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

COMPANY

Formed by the 1924 merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Productions. Best known for the James Bond franchise. Filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010.

Official Website:
http://www.mgm.com/

Industry:
Media

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mike Curb
Politician
24-Dec-1944   Lt. Governor of California, 1979-83
Howard Dietz
Songwriter
8-Sep-1896 30-Jul-1983 MGM songwriter, publicity chief
Arthur Freed
Film/TV Producer
9-Sep-1894 12-Apr-1973 MGM producer, big budget musicals
Jules Haimovitz
Business
c. 1949   Dick Clark Productions
Kirk Kerkorian
Business
6-Jun-1917   Las Vegas baron
Sherry Lansing
Business
31-Jul-1944   Former Paramount executive
Louis B. Mayer
Film/TV Producer
4-Jul-1885 29-Oct-1957 The final M in MGM
Dore Schary
Film/TV Producer
31-Aug-1905 7-Jul-1980 President of MGM, 1951-56
David O. Selznick
Film/TV Producer
10-May-1902 22-Jun-1965 Producer of A Star Is Born
Daniel J. Taylor
Business
c. 1956   President of MGM, 2005-06
Irving Thalberg
Film/TV Producer
30-May-1899 14-Sep-1936 De-facto boss of MGM Studios
Ted Turner
Business
19-Nov-1938   Founder of Cable News Network

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Kelvin Davis
Business
c. 1965   Texas Pacific Group
Lawrence S. Smith
Business
c. 1947   CFO of Comcast, 1999-2002

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Willie D. Davis
Football
24-Jul-1934   Businessman, former football player
Michael J. Dominguez
Business
c. 1970   Providence Equity Partners
Alexis Herman
Government
16-Jul-1947   US Secretary of Labor, 1997-2001
Carrie Wheeler
Business
c. 1970   Texas Pacific Group

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Business
20-Jun-1929   CEO of Seagram's until 1994
Alexander Haig
Government
2-Dec-1924 20-Feb-2010 US Secretary of State, 1981-82
J. Howard McGrath
Government
28-Nov-1903 2-Sep-1966 US Attorney General, 1949-52

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Harold Adamson
Songwriter
10-Dec-1906 17-Aug-1980 Time on My Hands
June Allyson
Actor
7-Oct-1917 8-Jul-2006 Two Girls and a Sailor
Richard Anderson
Actor
8-Aug-1926   Oscar Goldman on The 6 Million Dollar Man
Pier Angeli
Actor
19-Jun-1932 10-Sep-1971 Tomorrow Is Too Late
Fred Astaire
Dancer
10-May-1899 22-Jun-1987 Broadway ballroom dancer
Tex Avery
Cartoonist
26-Feb-1908 26-Aug-1980 Creator of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck
Lucille Ball
Actor
6-Aug-1911 26-Apr-1989 I Love Lucy
Ethel Barrymore
Actor
15-Aug-1879 18-Jun-1959 None But the Lonely Heart
John Barrymore
Actor
15-Feb-1882 29-May-1942 Romeo and Juliet
Lionel Barrymore
Actor
28-Apr-1878 15-Nov-1954 Young Dr. Kildare
Wallace Beery
Actor
1-Apr-1885 15-Apr-1949 Grand Hotel
Busby Berkeley
Film Director
29-Nov-1895 14-Mar-1976 Strike Up the Band
Tod Browning
Film Director
12-Jul-1882 6-Oct-1962 Freaks
Mae Busch
Actor
18-Jun-1891 19-Apr-1946 The Ever-Popular Mae Busch
Lon Chaney
Actor
1-Apr-1883 26-Aug-1930 The Phantom of the Opera
Cyd Charisse
Dancer
8-Mar-1922 17-Jun-2008 Vamp dancer in Singin' in the Rain
Maurice Chevalier
Actor
12-Sep-1888 1-Jan-1972 Love Me Tonight
Joan Crawford
Actor
23-Mar-1905 10-May-1977 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Laraine Day
Actor
13-Oct-1920 10-Nov-2007 Foreign Correspondent
Marie Dressler
Actor
2-Nov-1868 28-Jul-1934 Min and Bill
Linda Evans
Actor
18-Nov-1942   Dynasty
William Faulkner
Author
25-Sep-1897 6-Jul-1962 Novels set in the American South
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author
24-Sep-1896 21-Dec-1940 The Great Gatsby
Anne Francis
Actor
16-Sep-1930 2-Jan-2011 Forbidden Planet
Clark Gable
Actor
1-Feb-1901 16-Nov-1960 Gone With the Wind
Greta Garbo
Actor
18-Sep-1905 15-Apr-1990 Vanted to be alone
Ava Gardner
Actor
24-Dec-1922 25-Jan-1990 The Barefoot Contessa
Judy Garland
Singer
10-Jun-1922 22-Jun-1969 Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
Greer Garson
Actor
29-Sep-1904 6-Apr-1996 Mrs. Miniver
John Gilbert
Actor
10-Jul-1899 9-Jan-1936 La Boheme
Lillian Gish
Actor
14-Oct-1893 27-Feb-1993 Silent film actress, director
Edmund Goulding
Film Director
20-Mar-1891 24-Dec-1959 Grand Hotel
Cary Grant
Actor
18-Jan-1904 29-Nov-1986 North by Northwest
Jean Harlow
Actor
3-Mar-1911 7-Jun-1937 Bombshell
Katharine Hepburn
Actor
12-May-1907 29-Jun-2003 The Philadelphia Story
Aldous Huxley
Author
26-Jul-1894 22-Nov-1963 Brave New World
Jackie "Butch" Jenkins
Actor
29-Aug-1937 14-Aug-2001 MGM child star
Buster Keaton
Actor
4-Oct-1895 1-Feb-1966 The General
Betty Lou Keim
Actor
27-Sep-1938 27-Jan-2010 Fran McCord on The Deputy
Gene Kelly
Actor
23-Aug-1912 2-Feb-1996 Singin' in the Rain
Deborah Kerr
Actor
30-Sep-1921 16-Oct-2007 From Here to Eternity
Hedy Lamarr
Actor
9-Nov-1913 19-Jan-2000 Actress, invented frequency hopping
Angela Lansbury
Actor
16-Oct-1925   Murder She Wrote
Janet Leigh
Actor
6-Jul-1927 4-Oct-2004 Psycho
Myrna Loy
Actor
2-Aug-1905 14-Dec-1993 The Thin Man
Jeanette MacDonald
Actor
18-Jun-1903 14-Jan-1965 The Merry Widow
Chico Marx
Actor
22-Mar-1887 11-Oct-1961 An Italian con-man of a Marx Brother
Groucho Marx
Comic
2-Oct-1890 19-Aug-1977 You Bet Your Life
Harpo Marx
Actor
23-Nov-1888 28-Sep-1964 Silent harp-playing Marx Brother
Zeppo Marx
Actor
25-Feb-1901 30-Nov-1979 Straight man of the Marx Brothers
Jayne Meadows
Actor
27-Sep-1920   City Slickers
Ann Miller
Dancer
12-Apr-1923 22-Jan-2004 Kiss Me Kate
Vincente Minnelli
Film Director
28-Feb-1903 25-Jul-1986 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Robert Montgomery
Actor
21-May-1904 27-Sep-1981 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Karen Morley
Actor
12-Dec-1909 8-Mar-2003 Gabriel Over the White House
Maureen O'Sullivan
Actor
17-May-1911 28-Jun-1998 A Day at the Races
Joe Pasternak
Film/TV Producer
19-Sep-1901 13-Sep-1991 Destry Rides Again
George Peppard
Actor
1-Oct-1928 8-May-1994 The A Team
William Powell
Actor
29-Jul-1892 5-Mar-1984 My Man Godfrey
Paula Prentiss
Actor
4-Mar-1938   What's New, Pussycat?
Fred Quimby
Film/TV Producer
31-Jul-1886 16-Sep-1965 Producer of Tom and Jerry
Nancy Reagan
First Lady
6-Jul-1921   Wife of US President Reagan
Debbie Reynolds
Actor
1-Apr-1932   Dancer, actress
Mickey Rooney
Actor
23-Sep-1920   Actor in Andy Hardy comedies, musicals
Rosalind Russell
Actor
4-Jun-1907 28-Nov-1976 Auntie Mame
Sara Shane
Actor
18-May-1926   The King and Four Queens
Norma Shearer
Actor
10-Aug-1902 12-Jun-1983 The Divorcee
Sidney Sheldon
Author
11-Feb-1917 30-Jan-2007 Annie Get Your Gun
Frank Sinatra
Singer
12-Dec-1915 14-May-1998 It's Frank's world, we just live in it
Jimmy Stewart
Actor
20-May-1908 2-Jul-1997 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Dean Stockwell
Actor
5-Mar-1936   Blue Velvet
Russ Tamblyn
Actor
30-Dec-1934   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Elizabeth Taylor
Actor
27-Feb-1932 23-Mar-2011 Cleopatra
Rod Taylor
Actor
11-Jan-1930   The Time Machine
Shirley Temple
Actor
23-Apr-1928   Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Spencer Tracy
Actor
5-Apr-1900 10-Jun-1967 Two consecutive Best Actor Oscars
Lana Turner
Actor
8-Feb-1920 29-Jun-1995 The Postman Always Rings Twice
King Vidor
Film Director
8-Feb-1894 1-Nov-1982 Northwest Passage
Johnny Weissmuller
Actor
2-Jun-1904 20-Jan-1984 Gold Medalist became Tarzan
Michael Wilding
Actor
23-Jul-1912 8-Jul-1979 Torch Song
Guy Williams
Actor
14-Jan-1924 7-May-1989 Prof. John Robinson on Lost in Space
P. G. Wodehouse
Author
15-Oct-1881 14-Feb-1975 Jeeves novels

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Joseph Barbera
Cartoonist
24-Mar-1911 18-Dec-2006 Hanna-Barbera cartoons
Carter T. Barron
Business
30-Jan-1905 16-Nov-1950 Washington advocate for the arts
Frances Gifford
Actor
7-Dec-1919 15-Jan-1994 Jungle Girl
William Hanna
Cartoonist
14-Jul-1910 22-Mar-2001 Half of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon sweatshop
Ub Iwerks
Cartoonist
24-Mar-1901 7-Jul-1971 First to animate Mickey Mouse
Baby Marie Osborne
Actor
5-Nov-1911 11-Nov-2010 Silent-era child star
Alan J. Pakula
Film Director
7-Apr-1928 19-Nov-1998 All the President's Men
Andy Rooney
Journalist
14-Jan-1919 4-Nov-2011 60 Minutes' resident crank

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ayn Rand
Author
2-Feb-1905 6-Mar-1982 Atlas Shrugged


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