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Mayer family historian. Great-grandniece of Louis B. Mayer. 100 years of MGM! Left social media in 2018. Newly back. Let’s see what happens. (TM attorney in 🇦🇺 so forgive occasional British spelling.) HollywoodEssays.com
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With the 97th Academy Awards just days away, it's crazy to think they nearly didn't survive the 21st Oscars. When Hamlet (1948) won almost every major category, Hollywood's biggest studios were ready to walk away from their night of nights. #oscars #academyawards #ampas #hollywood

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Happy birthday to legendary Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, shown here w/ wife Dagmar Cohn in a remarkable photo by Irving Penn. Somehow it reminds me of this iconic photo of Greta Garbo taken in 1926 w/ another imposing character, Leo the Lion, after my great uncle Louis B. Mayer brought her to MGM

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Here's another from the head shot collection, this one of actress Marie Wilson & signed to Mitzi, "Dear Mitzi, Thanks so much. Love, Marie". I wonder what Marie was thanking my grandmother for? Their paths likely crossed during the making of MGM's Babes in Toyland (1934). How about those eyelashes?

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Of the head shots in the archive, many of which are signed to my grandmother Mitzi Cummings (niece of LB Mayer), this one of Danish explorer Peter Freuchen was the most mystifying until I realised he had starred in MGM's pre-code film Eskimo (1933) based on his book. Seems he adored 5' tall Mitzi?

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

My grandfather Sol Baer Fielding was the most precious person in my life & I miss him terribly. My core values came from him. Here he is w/ actor/singer Harry Belafonte a few yrs after he produced Bright Road ('53) (dir by cousin Gerald Mayer). Maybe they're talking abt another film or just visiting

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I'm sure you've always wondered if Charo ever crossed paths w/ Groucho Marx? Uh, yes, actually. Here they are at a gala event in the 70s for the LA Jewish Home for the Aged (as it was known) w/ Mary Mann, who I think was a writer. My great-grandmother Ida Mayer Cummings began these galas in the 30s.

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I adore this photo of my great uncle Louis B. Mayer with actress Marion Davies and Sid Grauman, owner of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Sid kept theatre hours so when he was once forced to get up early he said, "The birds were singing. How long has that been going on?" Not sure of the year or occasion.

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On this 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we present films honoring the memory of all victims of the Holocaust. SHOAH: FOUR SISTERS contains interviews with four women who, after escaping the concentration camps, tried to find a life after the Holocaust.

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

Hi folks, if you've seen my profile you may have noted I left social media in 2018 & just returned 2 mnths ago. To be honest, I'm struggling with returning. I have this amazing family collection of photos, memorabilia, docs etc but it seems irrelevant in the current times. I'd love to hear your view

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