When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM.
We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.
We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records.
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.
I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.
And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
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