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Louis B. Mayer

1884 - 1957

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Louis Burt Mayer (; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood. Mayer was born in the village of Dymer, Russia, and grew up poor in Saint John, New Brunswick. He quit school at 12 to support his family and later moved to Boston and purchased and renovated a small vaudeville theatre in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis B. Mayer is the 13th most popular producer (up from 14th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 195th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Producer.

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Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Louis B. Mayer ranks 13 out of 140. Before him are Dino De Laurentiis, René Angélil, Simon Cowell, Jerry Bruckheimer, Phil Spector, and David O. Selznick. After him are Toshio Suzuki, Joseph M. Schenck, Joel Silver, Gene Roddenberry, Samuel Goldwyn, and Aaron Spelling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Louis B. Mayer ranks 47. Before him are Petru Groza, Hugo Gernsback, Robert J. Flaherty, Eugène Tisserant, Maria Spiridonova, and Zinaida Serebriakova. After him are Johan Laidoner, Empress Teimei, Béla Balázs, Hugo Schmeisser, Princess Helen of Serbia, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Among people deceased in 1957, Louis B. Mayer ranks 56. Before him are Princess Elisabeth Marie of Bavaria, Max Amann, Johnny Torrio, Édouard Herriot, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Arnold van Gennep. After him are Leo Perutz, Sacha Guitry, Qi Baishi, Hermann Buhl, Rudolf Diels, and Giovanni Battista Caproni.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Louis B. Mayer ranks 187 out of 1,365. Before him are Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), Wojciech Kilar (1932), Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), and Catherine Dolgorukov (1847). After him are Valentina Matviyenko (1949), Vassily Ivanchuk (1969), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), Mykola Lysenko (1842), Kirill Moskalenko (1902), and Kunigunda of Halych (1245).

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Among PRODUCERS In Ukraine

Among producers born in Ukraine, Louis B. Mayer ranks 1. After him are Sam Zimbalist (1905), and Elena Andreicheva (2000).

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