Louis B. Mayer with his 1926 Packard C. 1926 *M.W.*
				
				
						 Caption: Louis B. Mayer with his 1926 Packard C. 1926 *M.W.*
																																				
						Miscellaneous Crew, Producer, Production Manager
						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)
						Source: IMDB
						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 ...