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Robert Avrak

Sep 28, 2026

27:26
But did he create it or did he just expand upon it?
27:31
No, he basically created it.
27:33
So what happened was, just to get into the weeds a little bit, there was a man named Marcus Lowe and he was the owner of Lowe's Theater Chain.
27:44
So that was a – those were movie theaters where he showed movies.
27:50
But he wanted to branch out vertically and also – make it not just distribution, but production.
28:00
So he approached Louis B. Mayer about putting something together.
28:05
So basically they cobbled together Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, and that became MGM.
29:48
But, so there's definitely some negative connotations there, but the goal for Mayer was to create this, again, this wholesome, we mentioned the wholesome thing, but he was also very virulently pro-American and he wanted to have a pro-American message in his films.

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