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us: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer


  • [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is a motion picture, television, home video, and theatrical production and distribution company. Established in 1924, the company was split in 1980 to form the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company and MGM Grand Hotels, Inc.]

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    • us: MGM
    • us: M-G-M
    • us: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, inc.
    • us: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation
    • us: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation
    • us: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation
    • us: Loew's Incorporated. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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    • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, inc.
  • Sources

    • found: Its Annual statement, 1931-
    • found: Hallelujah [MP] 1929: credits (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents; copyrighted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
    • found: Copyright cat. mot. pic. 1912-1939, 1951 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation; MGM; All of the listed organizational names were interchangeably used as variant forms from 1924-1960 to identify production and/or distribution functions of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organization, a subsidiary of Loew's Incorporated which existed from 1919-1960)
    • found: Int. mot. pic. alm., 1982 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. changed its name to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company, January 31, 1980)
    • found: Slide, A. The American film industry, 1986 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; in 1924, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, Metro Pictures Corporation and independent producer Louis B. Mayer joined to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
    • found: Katz, E. The film encyc., 1979 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); est. 1924 as an amalgamation of Metro Pictures Corporation (formed 1915), Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (formed 1917), and Louis B. Mayer Pictures (formed 1918) under the corporate control of Loew's, Inc.)
    • found: Linkedin, via WWW, 27 October 2010 (MGM, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an independent, privately-held motion picture, television, home video, and theatrical production and distrubution company.)
    • found: Hoovers, via WWW, 27 October 2010 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. -- 10250 Constellation Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90067, United States)
    • found: Fade out, 1990: p. 175 (MGM Film Corporation; est. in split of MGM, hotel holdings formed MGM Grand Hotels, Inc.)
  • General Notes

    • [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is a motion picture, television, home video, and theatrical production and distribution company. Established in 1924, the company was split in 1980 to form the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company and MGM Grand Hotels, Inc.]
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    • 1980-03-26: new
    • 2012-11-02: revised
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