MGM
When we watch Hollywood movies, we occasionally see this picture at the beginning of the film, this is mgm pictures that once became the top eight film companies in Hollywood, MGM's existence is the indispensable general of today's Hollywood film boom, just to name a few of its achievements, it is enough to call it a miracle: initiated and established the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and launched the Academy Awards (Oscars); Created one of the best films in the history of cinema, Gone with the Wind; created the screen classic - 007 series.
The company's superstars gathered:
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo's masterpieces la Traviata, The Queen of Sweden and Anna Karenina were voted the fifth greatest actress of a hundred years by the American Film Institute in 1999
Clark Gable
Clark Gable signed mgM debut, representative works "Gone with the Wind", "One Night Wind" and "Free Flower", won the 7th Academy Award for Best Actor for "One Night Wind", won the 12th Academy Award nomination for Best Actor with "Gone with the Wind", and of course, finally spent the "most elegant actor" Robert Donat
Spencer Küsse
Spencer Qusay won the 10th Academy Award for Best Actor in 1937 for "The Rest of the Fury Sea", and the following year won the 11th Academy Award for Best Actor for Orphan paradise, becoming the first person to win the Oscar for Best Actor for two consecutive years, and also the life partner of Hollywood actress Catherine Hepburn, because he was Catholic, so he could not divorce.
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford's masterpieces "Desire for the Sea Demon", "Cocooning Yourself" and "Frightened Suddenly Rise" won the 18th Oscar laurels with "Desire for the Sea Demon", and "Frightened Suddenly" won the 25th Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
Catherine Hepburn
Katherine Hepburn has been nominated for 12 Oscars, won the crown four times, was named the first place in the greatest actress in the AFI century, won the Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, the Best Actress at the Venice International Film Festival, and the Best Actress at the Emmy Awards
Eliza Taylor
Eliza Taylor won the 33rd Academy Award for Best Actress for The in the Green House and the 39th Oscar for Spring Supper.
Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh won the 12th Oscar for "Gone with the Wind", and was the first British actress to win this award, winning the 16th Venice International Film Festival Volpi Cup Best Actress for "Desire StreetCar" in 1951, and winning the Oscar for the second time with this film the following year.
Gloria Carson
Gracia Carson has been nominated for an Oscar for "The Master of The World", "Falling Flowers", "Madame Curie", "Madame Partington", "Yerba Buena in the Empty Valley", "Rising Sun", and won the Oscar for Best Actress for "The House of Loyalty".
Nauma Sheila
Nauma Sheila has been nominated for 6 Oscars for "Their Lusts", "Abandoned Women's Grudges", "Free Souls", "Red Chamber Spring Grudges", "Romeo and Juliet", and "The Absolute Beauty", and won the 3rd Oscar with "Abandoned Women's Grudges".
Robert Donat
Robert Donat's masterpiece "Master of All Worlds" won the 12th Academy Award for Best Actor with this film
decline
After World War II, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that large companies had an illegal monopoly, and made a decision requiring production companies to only control films and abandon the operation of distribution and film business, which was undoubtedly fatal to MGM; secondly, the rise of the television industry, a large number of television into the family, MGM faced greater challenges; the third blow was Meyer's departure, a great hero who created the MGM miracle.
finale
Due to successive losses, in 1970, it was bought by the gambling tycoon Kirk Kirkorion, which also made MGM and the film go further and further, and then experienced two resales and buybacks, which frustrated MGM.
In 2005, Sony bought MGM, and the last independent production company in Hollywood's eight companies disappeared.
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