Job Film producer * Studio executive
Years active 1915-1950
Top Roles Himself, Himself
Top GenresSilent Films, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Film Adaptation, Mystery
Top TopicsBook-Based, Money, Ancient World
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Louis B. Mayer Overview:

Producer, Louis B. Mayer, was born Ezemiel Mayer on Jul 12, 1884 in Dymer, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Mayer died at the age of 73 on Oct 29, 1957 in Los Angeles, CA and was laid to rest in Home of Peace Memorial Park Cemetery in East Los Angeles, CA.

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. In addition, Mayer was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame . However he won one Honorary Award in 1950 for distinguished service to the motion picture industry.

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Honorary Award Oscar 1950
WINNER

For distinguished service to the motion picture industry
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Louis B. Mayer on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame

1637 Vine Street


Ceremony Date: Feb 8, 1960
Category: Motion Pictures
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Louis B. Mayer Facts
Father of Irene Mayer Selznick.
Mayer, according to Peter Hays' 1991 book "When the Lion Roars," idealized his mother. He was her favorite son, and she was the main influence on his life. She died in 1913, and Mayer kept a picture of her over his bed the rest of his life. With his mother an icon in his eyes, Mayer revered the concept of motherhood. When director Erich von Stroheim expressed the opinion to Mayer that all women were whores, Mayer asked him if he thought of his own mother that way, and then punched him in the face. Mayer told screenwriter Frances Marion, at their first meeting, that she should never write anything that would embarrass Mayer's own wife and two daughters. He told her, "I worship good women, honorable men and saintly mothers."
Was the father-in-law of producer/studio boss William Goetz (1903-69), married to Mayer's daughter Edith (Mrs. William Goetz). As one of the initial investors in Darryl F. Zanuck's fledgling Twentieth Century Pictures (which would soon merge with ailing Fox), Mayer insisted that his son-in-law be hired so as to get him out of MGM. Goetz served as executive vice president of Twentieth Century-Fox, heading the studio during Darryl F. Zanuck's leave of absence to serve in the military in 1942. Zanuck, fearful of his underling's ambitions, forced him out of the company upon his return in 1943. Ironically both Mayer and Zanuck felt that Goetz was decidedly unimaginative and a mediocre film executive. That same year Goetz formed International Pictures, which merged with Universal in 1946. Goetz would go on to become one of the most successful movie moguls in the post-TV era.
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Canadian Hall of Fame

Louis B. Mayer


Inducted: 2004
Canadian Walk of Fame
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Inducted: 2008
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Inducted: 2000
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