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In 1932, William Faulkner was offered a $500-a-week contract ($8,500 today) to write scripts at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer but didn't have enough money to send a telegram to answer yes.
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The Lion's roar from the Metro-Goldwyn logo is actually made from tiger vocalizations, as "lions don't make that kind of ferocious noise and the logo needed to be ferocious and majestic"
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Because of the attention from the Rockefeller Grant Tennessee Williams was hired by Metro Goldwyn Mayer in Hollywood for a six-month contract earning him a $250 per week paycheck.
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Samuel Goldwyn (film producer whose company became Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) was originally named Samuel Goldfish. He changed his name in 1916 after cofounding Goldwyn Pictures.
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Sam Goldwyn (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM), when told he couldn't make a film about lesbians, he said "that's all right, we'll just make them into Armenians." To this day, such malapropisms can be called "Goldwynisms"
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Warner Brothers (Apr. 4, 1923), Walt Disney Company (Oct. 6, 1923), Columbia Pictures (Jan. 10, 1924) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (April 17, 1924), were all founded in just over a year.
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Rod Serling Fought To Break His $250,000 (over 2 million today) Contract With Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer To Allow Him To Work On The Twilight Zone With Unprecedented Control Over Censorship and Sponsor Interference
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The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Logo (the one we all know with the roaring lion) has a long and interesting history from 1917-2015--from silent films, to color, to the present day with 3D cinema.
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Tony Goldwyn (Fitz from Scandal) is Hollywood royalty. He's the grandson of Samuel Goldwyn, producer of the first feature film made in Hollywood in the early 1900's and the 'Goldwyn' of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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The Academy Awards were created by Louis B Mayer, father of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, so that the five branches of the film industry would produce what Mayer wanted them to produce.
