[Explaining his disillusionment with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he made his first films} Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool. ... I was encouraged to emulate Robert Taylor, who came to the studio every day...
Peter Lawford
For seventeen years it was Mr. Mayer [MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer] who guided me, and I never turned down a picture that he personally asked me to do.
Robert Taylor
For seventeen years it was Mr. Mayer [MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer] who guided me, and I never turned down a picture that he personally asked me to do.
Robert Taylor
There was a quality about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that was so special....it was just the most exciting studio in the world. They looked after their people so perfectly. And then to go to a place (20th Century Fox) where you don`t know anybody and they don`t k...
Ann Rutherford
[Differentiating between Knots Landing and Desperate Housewives]: The Teri Hatcher character, (Susan Mayer), who is the moral center if you will that would be like a Karen, my character. Then, there`s the bad girl, Nicolette Sheridan, (Edie Britt), who is...
Michele Lee
What do we need another galoot for? We`ve already got Wallace Beery -- Louis B. Mayer, upon finding out that Irving Thalberg had hired Tracy to join MGM.
Spencer Tracy
[on MGM chief Louis B. Mayer] Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.
Bob Hope
[on MGM chief Louis B. Mayer] Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.
Bob Hope
Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
Lew Wasserman
Subsequently, a fellow from Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios saw the play and they asked me to do a screen test and then I was signed to a contract.
Dean Stockwell
I remember when I first walked into Mayer`s cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
Esther Williams
I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn`t treat you like Daddy at all.
Jackie Cooper
I didn`t get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they`d given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
Jim Jarmusch
[Explaining his disillusionment with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he made his first films} Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool. ... I was encouraged to emulate Robert Taylor, who came to the studio every day...
Peter Lawford
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