MGM When the lion roars

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MGM: When the Lion Roars
by Peter Hay
In 1924, when Metro Pictures merged with Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions, MGM leapt into film history to become one of the most famous movie studios ever created. It produced or distributed some of the world's most beloved movies (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard ofOz, Gigi); introduced, promoted, and featured stars of a quality, a tempestuousness, and a vibrancy never to be seen in quite the same way again (Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly); created screen couples with whom audiences fell in love again and again (Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn); developed series (The Thin Man, Andy Hardy, Tarzan), shorts (Our Gang, The Little RascalsJ, animated cartoons (Tom and Jerry); produced some of the world's greatest musicals (An American... Tovább

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MGM: When the Lion Roars
by Peter Hay
In 1924, when Metro Pictures merged with Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions, MGM leapt into film history to become one of the most famous movie studios ever created. It produced or distributed some of the world's most beloved movies (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard ofOz, Gigi); introduced, promoted, and featured stars of a quality, a tempestuousness, and a vibrancy never to be seen in quite the same way again (Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly); created screen couples with whom audiences fell in love again and again (Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy, Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn); developed series (The Thin Man, Andy Hardy, Tarzan), shorts (Our Gang, The Little RascalsJ, animated cartoons (Tom and Jerry); produced some of the world's greatest musicals (An American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain), the most poignant romances (Waterloo Bridge, Camille, The Clock), and the most ambitious spectacles (Ben-Hur, Marie Antoinette, San Francisco, The Good Earth). MGM monopolized the movie magazines, affected fashion and interior design around the world, created makeup and hair trends, sold war bonds and made well over 1,000 films of indescribable value before the star contract system, which had sustained the studio's incredible output, came to an end around 1959.
MGM: When The Lion Roars, illustrated with hundreds of full-color and black-and-white photographs, posters, lobby cards, magazine covers and other memorabilia, is certainly the most ambitious and luxurious exploration of the studio ever published. Written principally by Oxford University Press author Peter Hay, the book takes an inside look at the MGM kingdom: the people who ran It (the legendary Louis B. Mayer and his production genius, Irving Thalberg) and the 25,000 people who worked for MGM (including the brilliant costume designer Adrian; the cultured art director Cedric Gibbons; Jack Dawn, the impresario of makeup; producers David 0. Selznick, Hunt Stromberg, Arthur Freed; directors King Vidor, Woody Van Dyke, Victor Fleming, Vincente Minnelli; writers, songwriters and lyricists, cameramen, still photographers, and sound technicians).

700 illustrations (150 in color/550 in duotone) Vissza