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Mgm
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Author : Steven Bingen
language : en
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Release Date : 2011-02-25
Mgm written by Steven Bingen and has been published by Santa Monica Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-25 with Performing Arts categories.
M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world’s most famous films. During its Golden Age, the studio employed the likes of Garbo, Astaire, and Gable, and produced innumerable iconic pieces of cinema such as The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, and Ben-Hur. It is estimated that a fifth of all films made in the United States prior to the 1970s were shot at MGM studios, meaning that the gigantic property was responsible for hundreds of iconic sets and stages, often utilizing and transforming minimal spaces and previously used props, to create some of the most recognizable and identifiable landscapes of modern movie culture. All of this happened behind closed doors, the backlot shut off from the public in a veil of secrecy and movie magic. M-G-M: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot highlights this fascinating film treasure by recounting the history, popularity, and success of the MGM company through a tour of its physical property. Featuring the candid, exclusive voices and photographs from the people who worked there, and including hundreds of rare and unpublished photographs (including many from the archives of Warner Bros.), readers are launched aboard a fun and entertaining virtual tour of Hollywood’s most famous and mysterious motion picture studio.
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Author : Tino Balio
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-14
Mgm written by Tino Balio and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-14 with Social Science categories.
The winner of the 2019 Peter C. Rollins Book Award This is the first comprehensive history of MGM from its origins in 1905 to the present. Following a straightforward chronology corresponding to specific periods of film industry history, each chapter describes how successive managements adjusted their production strategies and business practices in response to evolving industrial and market conditions. As the production subsidiary of the Loew’s Inc. theatre chain, MGM spent lavishly on its pictures and injected them with plenty of star power. The practice helped sustain MGM’s preeminent position during the heyday of Hollywood. But MGM was a conservative company and watched as other studios innovated with sound and widescreen, adjusted to television, and welcomed independent producers. By the 1960s, the company, sans its theatre chain, was in decline and was ripe for a takeover. A defining moment occurred in 1969, when Kirk Kerkorian, a Las Vegas entrepreneur, made a successful bid for the company. There followed a tumultuous thirty-six-year period when Kerkorian bought and sold MGM three times. Meanwhile, MGM never regained its former status and has functioned as a second-tier company to this day. Focusing on MGM’s top talent – such as Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, David O. Selznick, and Arthur Freed; directors King Vidor and Vincente Minnelli; and stars of the screen Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, and Mickey Rooney – and award-winning films, this book highlights the studio’s artistic achievements and status within the industry.
The Mgm Effect
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Author : Steven Bingen
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-08-15
The Mgm Effect written by Steven Bingen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s emblem, which has opened thousands of movies since 1924, is the most recognized corporate symbol in the world. Not just in the entertainment industry, it should be noted, but of any industry, anywhere, in the history of human civilization. But MGM has been a competitively insignificant force in the motion picture industry for nearly as long as it once, decades ago, dominated that industry. In fact, the MGM lion now presides not over movies alone, but over thirty world-class resorts, and is, or has been, also a recognized leader in the fields of real estate, theme parks, casinos, golf courses, consumer products, and even airlines, all around the world. But the MGM mystique remains. This book is a look at what made MGM the Mount Rushmore of studios, how it presented itself to the world, and how it influenced everything from set design to merchandising to music and dance, and continues to do so today.
The 50 Mgm Films That Transformed Hollywood
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Author : Steven Bingen
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-11-01
The 50 Mgm Films That Transformed Hollywood written by Steven Bingen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Movies don’t exist in a vacuum. Each MGM movie is a tiny piece of a large, colorful (although often black-and-white) quilt, with threads tying it into all of the rest of that studio’s product, going forward, yes, but also backward, and horizontally, and three-dimensionally across its entire landscape. Not necessarily a “best of” compilation, this book discusses the films that for one reason or another (and not all of them good ones) changed the trajectory of MGM and the film industry in general, from the revolutionary use of “Cinerama” in 1962’s How the West Was Won to Director Alfred Hitchcock’s near-extortion of the profits from the 1959 hit thriller North by Northwest. And there are the studio’s on-screen self-shoutouts to its own past or stars, in films like Party Girl (1958), the That’s Entertainment series, Garbo Talks (1984), Rain Man (1955), and De-Lovely (2004), or the studio’s acquisition of other successful franchises such as James Bond. But fear not—what we consider MGM’s classic films all get their due here, often with a touch of irony or fascinating anecdote. Singin' in the Rain (1952), for example, was in its day neither a financial blockbuster nor critically acclaimed but rather an excuse for the studio to reuse some old songs it already owned. The Wizard of Oz (1939) cost almost as much to make as Gone With the Wind (also 1939) and took ten years to recoup its costs. But still, the MGM mystique endures. Like the popular Netflix series The Movies that Made Us, this is a fascinating look behind the scenes of the greatest—and at times notorious—films ever made.
Billboard
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951-11-17
Billboard written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951-11-17 with categories.
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Best Of Mgm
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Author : Elizabeth M. Montgomery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-10
Best Of Mgm written by Elizabeth M. Montgomery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10 with categories.
From 1924, when the studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced their first hit, He Who Gets Slapped, MGM films have included many of the all time greats: silent favorites such as The Big Parade; horror movies such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; war movies such as 30 Seconds Over Tokyo; musicals such as An American in Paris, Gigi, and Singing in the Rain; as well as blockbusters such as The Wizard of Oz, A Night at the Opera, and Ben Hur, and of course, Gone With the Wind. There have also been such diverse films as Dr. Zhivago, The Sunshine Boys, and Thelma and Louise. Lavishly illustrated with more than 240 stills and posters in color and B&W.
American Chemical Journal
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
American Chemical Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
American Chemical Journal
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Author : Ira Remsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
American Chemical Journal written by Ira Remsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Chemistry categories.
The Mgm Effect
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Author : Steven Bingen
language : en
Publisher: Lyons Press
Release Date : 2021-10
The Mgm Effect written by Steven Bingen and has been published by Lyons Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with categories.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's emblem, which has opened thousands of movies since 1924, is the most recognized corporate symbol in the world. Not just in the entertainment industry, it should be noted, but of any industry, anywhere, in the history of human civilization. But MGM has been a competitively insignificant force in the motion picture industry for nearly as long as it once, decades ago, dominated that industry. In fact, the MGM lion now presides not over movies alone, but over thirty world-class resorts, and is, or has been, also a recognized leader in the fields of real estate, theme parks, casinos, golf courses, consumer products, and even airlines, all around the world. But the MGM mystique remains. This book is a look at what made MGM the Mount Rushmore of studios, how it presented itself to the world, and how it influenced everything from set design to merchandising to music and dance, and continues to do so today.
Mgm Posters
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Author : Frank Miller
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publications Incorporated
Release Date : 1994
Mgm Posters written by Frank Miller and has been published by Turner Publications Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Provides a decade-by-decade visual history of MGM, featuring arresting examples of every film genre and virtually every major star of Hollywood's Golden Age.