Louis B. Mayer 4 pictures

Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Production Manager
Mayer was born Lazar Mayer in the Ukraine and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after his parents fled Russian oppression in 1886. He had a brutal childhood, raised in poverty and suffering physical and emotional abuse from his nearly-illiterate peddler father. In the early 1890s, he changed his name to Louis and fudged his birth date ...

Born: July 12, 1884
Star sign: Cancer
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Known for: Greed (1924), That's Entertainment! (1974), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), Sowing the Wind (1921)
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