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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.
Rob Zombie
Art
Time
Nothing
Done
By The Time
Committee
Gate
Lions
Movie
Universal
MGM
Else
Got
Just
Say
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.
Davy Jones
Experience
Three
About
Days
Grand
Peter
Vegas
Weeks
MGM
Actually
Did
Quite
Seven
Shows
Were
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.
George Sidney
Family
You
People
Day
Big Family
Missed
Studio System
MGM
Because
Big
Had
Kind
Mean
Miss
Studio
System
Worked
Working
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
Zadie Smith
There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.
Dean Devlin
Success
Television
Through
Finished
Canal
Financed
France
Sold
Stargate
Television Series
MGM
After
Based
Decided
Film
Involved
Made
Movie
Series
Studio
At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.
Andre Previn
You
Talent
Next
Whatever
Ambitious
Gamble
Musically
Next Year
Paid
Settle
MGM
Get
Going
Had
Knew
Might
Too
Wanted
Were
Working
Year
Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'
Debbie Reynolds
You
Day
Welcome
Looking
Clark
Clark Gable
Enormous
Gates
Hello
Introduced
Iron
Leaving
Studio
Walked
MGM
About
Everything
First
He
Just
Kid
Said
Through
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
Garrett Hedlund
Me
Go
Never
Back
Address
Asking
If I Could
Locate
Pictures
Studios
Universal
Video
Wrote
MGM
Could
Growing
Growing Up
Movie
Them
Up
Watch
Whatever
Would
Write
My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.
Marti Noxon
Life
Dad
Dream
Inside
Documentary
Factory
MGM
About
Had
Just
Made
Wanted
Whole
I saw Bob Arum out in America, I saw him walking through the lobby in the MGM Grand. I basically went over and said: 'You're running out of opponents for Crawford and I'm the guy to beat him. I'm here.' I saw Terence Crawford, he said he was ready for it, so everybody is on the same page. Everyone wants to make the fight.
Kell Brook
You
Fight
Walking
America
Basically
Beat
Bob
Everybody
Everyone
Grand
Guy
He
Here
Him
Lobby
Make
MGM
Opponents
Out
Over
Page
Ready
Running
Said
Same
Same Page
Saw
Through
Wants
I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
Esther Williams
True
Really
Did
Gave
MGM
I came from the theatre, which had given me opportunities in television as well as a film adaptation of my second play 'Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got The Will?' for MGM.
Del Shores
Me
Will
Well
Theatre
Adaptation
Daddy
Opportunities
MGM
Came
Film
Given
Got
Had
I Came
Play
Second
Television
Which
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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.
Casey Kasem
First
Return
Show
Away
Avenue
Certain
Gave
Hour
Madison
Madison Avenue
Minutes
Number
Per
Received
Records
Sell
Sponsors
MGM
Could
Looking out the window and seeing the MGM and Floyd Mayweather takes me back to when I was a kid. Those were the places you'd hear about, the ones that staged big fights and top fighters. You always want to one day fight there yourself.
Kell Brook
Me
You
Yourself
Window
About
Always
Back
Big
Day
Fight
Fighters
Fights
Floyd
Floyd Mayweather
Hear
Kid
Looking
MGM
One Day
Out
Places
Seeing
Staged
Takes
Those
Top
Want
Were
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland
Age
Born
I Was Born
Twelve
MGM
Lot
My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.
Lindsay Mendez
Love
Parents
Fans
Big
Fell
Grease
Intrigued
Musical
Usual
MGM
Different
Thought
Were
As a rule, Michael Balcon was at great pains to ensure Ealing remained very British. There was no point our trying to be MGM, and we didn't see a lot of American stars.
Douglas Slocombe
Great
Stars
See
American
Ensure
No Point
Pains
Remained
MGM
British
Lot
Michael
Our
Point
Rule
Trying
Very
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
Joseph Barbera
Like
Fall
Fast
Days
Empire
Motion
Roman
Roman Empire
MGM
Last
Were
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.
Bob Balaban
Family
Head
Out
Years
Chain
Chicago
Movie Theaters
Paramount
Theaters
MGM
Around
Became
Came
Movie
Other
Production
Started
Them
Then
Were
My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'
Jojo Moyes
Me
You
Look
Think
Card
Guild
Invited
Novel
Possessions
Proudest
Script
MGM
After
America
Before
Being
Film
Given
Hollywood
I Think
Last
Made
Whenever
Which
Write
Writer
Writers
I worked with so many comedians who became big names - so many, I can't even remember some of their names. John Byner, Totie Fields, Joan Rivers. Shecky Green at the MGM. When I started my career, my first hotel in Las Vegas was at the old Flamingo. My opening act was Bill Cosby.
Trini Lopez
I first saw 'West Side Story' on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it, bought the album, and memorised the whole thing.
Russ Tamblyn
Love
New
Army
Story
Caught
Contract
West Side
West Side Story
MGM
Album
Been
Bought
Fell
First
Having
Musical
New York
Saw
Side
Stage
Thing
West
While
Whole
York
Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
D. B. Sweeney
Who
Places
Needs
Any
MGM
Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.
Michael Korda
Childhood
Nobody
Emerge
Could
MGM
Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.
Ann Rutherford
People
River
Always
Down
Contract
Selling
Spanking
Stayed
Warner
Warner Brothers
MGM
After
Because
Brothers
Looked
Most
Somebody
Studio
Them
Were
Why
I had an opportunity to meet Elvis, only once. It was at the MGM Grand. It was certainly not at the height of his career. No, it wasn't at the height of his career, but it was still a thrill to see him and meet him anyway. You know?
Lesley Gore
You
Opportunity
Know
Only
Anyway
Elvis
Grand
Height
Thrill
MGM
Career
Certainly
Had
Him
His
Meet
Once
See
Still
Actually, my true name is Rosa Dolores Alverio. And then I became Rosita Moreno when a stepfather stepped in. And when I got to MGM studios, which was my first film contract, they just thought that Rosita wasn't a good name, and they changed it to Rita. And yes, it was their idea.
Rita Moreno
Good
Name
True
Just
Became
Changed
Contract
Film
Rita
Rosa
Stepfather
Stepped
Studios
Yes
MGM
Actually
First
Got
Idea
Then
Thought
Which
From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.
Judy Garland
Me
Childhood
Time
Struggle
Anything Else
Between
Constant
Eat
Else
How Much
Remember
Thirteen
Vividly
Whether
I Remember
MGM
About
Anything
How
More
Much
Than
All the Warner actors were real actors. They started in theater and led very straightforward lives - you never saw entourages around. The MGM girls were the glamour girls, and they always had the makeup and hair people with them and all that.
Lauren Bacall
You
People
Hair
Never
Actor
Girl
Glamour
Led
Lives
Makeup
Saw
Started
Straightforward
Theater
Warner
MGM
Always
Around
Had
Real
Them
Very
Were
We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.
Dean Devlin
Success
Who
Surprise
Well
Financiers
Frightened
Sold
Spawned
Stargate
TV Shows
MGM
Before
Came
Did
Film
Hit
Independent
Might
Movie
Original
Out
Shows
TV
Were
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