Cameraman and a sound technician record the roar of Leo the Lion for MGM's famous movie logo. The footage was first used on MGM's first talking...
Now that the talkies are making all the human stores sound their vowels and constants properly, Leo, the M.G.M. Lion has decided that he had better...
Aviator Marten Jensen, second place winner in the 1927 Dole Trans-Pacific Air Race, pictured with the MGM studios lion, Leo. Marten planned to fly...
Alfred Hitchcock poses in his Mercedes-Benz 190 SL convertible with an illusion of the MGM lion in the passenger seat. "Hitch" was on the studio lot...
French actress Simone France, wearing a white cardigan over a black outfit with black calf-length leggings, poses besides the security booth at the...
Night view of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio's Thalberg Building, Hollywood, California, 1953. It was completed in 1938 and named after producer Irving...
Leo, the lion mascot seen roaring at the start of MGM films, in his travelling enclosure during a world publicity tour. At the wheel is his trainer,...
At MGM studios Judy Carroll puts an auctioneer's tag on the dress worn by Judy Garland in the film "The Wizard of Oz." The vast collection of set...
Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, Marion Davies, Louis B. Mayer, and Clark Gable dine together at a luncheon at the MGM studio on March 30, 1933....
Miss Luise Rainer, noted European stage star, pictured as she arrived in New York on the S.S. Ile de France to fill a contract with...
Culver City, California- Wearing parts of their military uniforms under their raincoats, studio strikers who are veterans parade before MGM Studios...
Musician Taylor Swift performs onstage during the first ever Academy Of Country Music New Artists' Show Party for a Cause, benefiting the ACM...
Aerial view of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio backlot, Culver City, California, early 1950s. Visible are a number of sets from various films,...
Greta Garbo and camera crew on set of MGM's 1934 film The Painted Veil based on the novel by Somerset Marigham and directed by Richard Boleslawski.
Photo shows Spencer Tracy as sports reporter Sam Craig in a scene from the MGM movie "Woman of the Year." Movie released in 1942.
Mickey Rooney passes another milestone as the screen's beloved Andy Hardy, when he becomes a college freshman in "Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble," the...
Consisting of Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley and Ray Bolger in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer all-Technicolor production "The Wizard of Oz." The film,...
The cast of the 1939 MGM production of "The Wizard of Oz" stand together during a scene from the movie. From left to right are: Judy Garland as...
Hollywood, CA- Alec Guinness is visited by actor Paul Newman on the set of M-G-M's, "The Swan. Newman was portraying leading role in, "The Rack" on a...
The authors of two of the most successful plays now running in New York meet on the Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer lot in California. Edmund Goulding co-author...
His name is Robert Taylor and he's a graduate of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's young talent school. He plays his first featured role as a young intern in the...
Madrid, Spain- The stars of MGM's new film, "Dr. Zhivago" link arms as they stroll down a "street" on one of the sets being used in the movie. Left...
Louis B.Mayer and wife, Lorena Danker sitting together at a night club. The couple were married in 1948 and remained together until Mayer's death in...
American singer and actor Robert Goulet signing autographs for a group of young women after arriving in a motorized cart at the gates of the...
Actress and singer Judy Garland uses a personal recording machine in her MGM dressing room circa 1940 in Los Angeles, California.
Vintage souvenir postcard published ca 1961 from series titled Greetings from Hollywood depicting Hollywood landmarks, here a bird's eye view of an...
French actress Simone France, wearing a white cardigan over a black outfit with black calf-length leggings, poses besides the security booth at the...
German actress Luise Rainer and American actor Paul Muni play Chinese peasants in the MGM film 'The Good Earth', 1937.
The cover of 'Screen Romances' magazine, which contains a feature on the MGM film 'The Wizard of Oz', August 1939. The cover depicts actors Judy...
President Calvin Coolidge with Russian born film producer Louis B. Mayer on the MGM lot in Los Angeles, 19th February 1930. Actress Mary Pickford and...
Reginald Owen has a cup of coffee in the MGM comedy, 'Personal Property,' Hollywood, California, 1937.
American actress June Allyson stars in the MGM film 'Two Girls and a Sailor', directed by Richard Thorpe, 1944.
Photo shows Dorothy Jordan, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star in dressing room which she used when she was a member of the Chester Hale Girls at the Capitol...
Kirk Alyn is the young man who won the pretty singer known as Hollywood's "dead pan." Virginia first won fame as one of the stars in "Meet the...
Smart for fall is this suit worn by Kitty Carlisle in her latest MGM production. It is created in black crepe with embroidered and lace edged organdy...
Film Director Dore Schary who became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and eventually president of the studio, photographed in 1959.
Film Director Dore Schary who became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and eventually president of the studio, photographed in 1959.
Actress Betty Onge in a 1920s flapper fashion film still from the MGM movie, 'Singing in the Rain,' Hollywood, California, 1952.
Actress Jean Parker leaping over a hurdle in this MGM studio photograph, Hollywood, California, circa 1935.
Actors Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor as a photographer and an aspiring actress during location shooting for the MGM musical 'I Love Melvin' on...
Jack Haley as the Tin Woodman in MGM's The Wizard of Oz, produced by Mervryn LeRoy and directed by Victor Fleming, 1939.
