Entertainment & Arts
Irving G.
Aug. 29, 1987
Movies
A documentary airing on TCM explores the legacy of the feisty former MGM chief.
Feb. 1, 2005
I showed up in Irving Thalberg’s office at MGM on the morning of May 24, 1930, to report for duty as a writer.
Sept. 14, 1986
Sept. 14, 1936: Irving Thalberg, the head of production at MGM, died in his Santa Monica home at the age of 37.
Sept. 14, 2006
Archives
I wish to politely disagree with Gottfried Reinhardt’s implication that the seeds of MGM’s demise were planted with the death of Irving Thalberg (“When MGM Ranked at the Head of the Class,” Aug. 17).
Aug. 31, 1986
Much-lauded director Billy Wilder is set to receive another honor, this one from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: the prestigious Irving Thalberg Award, honoring “a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production.”
Feb. 15, 1988
Books
In Billy Wilder’s film “Sunset Boulevard,” the aging Norma Desmond is a Hollywood heroine who always seems incomparable.
May 6, 1990
But Irving Thalberg, MGM’s legendary producer, gets his due in a handsome new coffee-table book.
Oct. 31, 2008
Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Honorary Oscars will go to British film historian Kevin Brownlow, French ‘New Wave’ director Jean-Luc Godard and veteran American actor Eli Wallach.
Aug. 26, 2010
Ironically, Sue Mengers, born in Hamburg, has the pushiness, love of power and even the vulgarity that characterized those immigrant moguls who created the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Dec. 13, 1987