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Sep 28, 2026
Freedom 250: Government Secrecy, Presidential Succession, & Louis B. Mayer
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27:33Robert AvrakGUEST
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.
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27:50Robert AvrakGUEST
But he wanted to branch out vertically and also – make it not just distribution, but production.
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28:05Robert AvrakGUEST
So basically they cobbled together Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, and that became MGM.

Jake NovakHOST
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.