Louis B. Mayer

Louis Burt Mayer was an American film producer and cofounder of MetroGoldwynMayer studios in 1924. Mayer was skilled at developing star actors, including child actors, then placing them in consistently slick productions, such as musicals or comedies, for which MGM became famous. Under Mayers management, MGM became the most prestigious film studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors and stars in Hollywood.

Mayer was born Lazar Meir to a Jewish family in Minsk, then in the Russian Empire and now in Belarus. Probably his date of birth was July 12, 1884. His parents were Jacob Meir and Sarah Meltzer, and he had two sistersYetta, born in 1878, and Ida, born in 1883. Mayer first moved with his family to Rhode Island, where they lived from 1887 to 1892 and where his two brothers were bornRubin, in April 1888, and Jeremiah, in April 1891. Then, they moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada where Mayer attended school.

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