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Subject(s)

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—History [Browse]
• Motion pictures—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Motion picture studios—California—Los Angeles [Browse]

Summary note

"Discusses the films that, for one reason or another, changed the trajectory of MGM and the film industry in general"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-330).

Contents

• He who gets slapped (1924)
• Greed (1924)
• The big parade (1925)
• Putting pants on Philip (1927)
• White shadows in the south seas (1928)
• The Broadway melody (1929)
• Hallelujah (1929)
• Freaks (1932)
• Tarzan the ape man (1932)
• Grand hotel (1932)
• Dancing lady (1933)
• The good earth (1937)
• Love finds Andy Hardy (1938)
• The wizard of oz (1939)
• Gone with the wind (1939)
• Puss gets the boot (1940)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Song of Russia (1944)
• Meet me in St Louis (1944)
• The postman always rings twice (1946)
• On the town (1949)
• Battleground (1949)
• The red badge of courage (1951)
• Singin' in the rain (1952)
• The blackboard jungle (1955)
• Forbidden planet (1956)
• Jailhouse rock (1957)
• Cat on a hot tin roof (1958)
• Ben-hur : a tale of the Christ (1925)
• Ben-hur (1959)
• North by northwest (1959)
• How the west was won (1962)
• Dr. No (1963)
• The man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Blow-up (1966)
• How the grinch stole Christmas! (1966)
• The dirty dozen (1967)
• : a space odyssey (1968)
• Shaft (1971)
• Hollywood : the dream factory (1972)
• The phantom of Hollywood (1974)
• That's entertainment! (1974)
• Rocky (1976)
• Coma (1978)
• Heaven's gate (1980)
• Hero at large (1980), or Being there (1979), or The formula (1980)
• Pennies from heaven (1981)
• Running scared (1986)
• Get shorty (1995).

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Other title(s)

Fifty MGM films that transformed Hollywood

ISBN

• 9781493067008 (hardcover)
• 1493067001 (hardcover)

LCCN

2022014216

OCLC

1317835610

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