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Lion of Hollywood The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer Scott Eyman Simon & Schuster: 596 pp., $35
Dec. 25, 2005
Mary Mayer Schroeder, 93, one of the first female motion picture publicists.
Feb. 18, 2000
Entertainment & Arts
Six decades ago, Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer mogul Louis B.
March 30, 1987
Gerald Mayer, a scion of the MGM magnate Louis B.
Sept. 26, 2001
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When I was a kid, times were hard in this country, but I remember, once a year, around income tax time, the papers would print a Page 1 story about the biggest wage earners in society.
Jan. 7, 1996
Samuel Marx, the story editor who became guru to some of America’s leading writers when they came to Hollywood to write for films that they often felt were beneath them, has died of congestive heart failure, his family said.
March 6, 1992
Irene Mayer Selznick, a Broadway producer who was the daughter of movie magnate Louis B.
Oct. 11, 1990
Edith Mayer Goetz, 82, wife of the late movie producer William Goetz and daughter of the late film mogul Louis B.
June 4, 1988
California
Ruth Seltzer of Studio City will receive the annual Buddy Award on Aug. 12 at the Ida Mayer Cummings Auxiliary’s “Buddy Rogers Summer Party.”
July 17, 1987
Jack Cummings, who worked his way up from a job as an MGM office boy to become producer of some of Hollywood’s more successful musicals during a 30-year career, died Friday.
April 30, 1989