MGM's history
MGM stands for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM is an American company and his primary source of revenue is movies and TV shows of all kind. MGM was created in 1924, and has been the result of purchasing Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.
MGM stands for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM is an American company and his primary source of revenue is movies and TV shows of all kind. MGM was created in 1924, and has been the result of purchasing Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.
During the end of the silent films, and World War two, MGM was the wealthiest film company, playing about one new movie a week. During the great depression, it’s been said that MGM was the only movie company unaffected monetarily by the great depression. Its founder Louis B. Mayer died 1957. His death created a lot of problems, and the company suffered from its lost. The company started to lose money for the first time in 34 years.
In 2005, MGM sold his rights to the blue ray discs for 5 billion dollars, and two of them were used to pay MGM's fine. In 2006, MGM announced a comeback in the movie industry, because for many years after Mayer's death, MGM's revenues were mostly from MGM's Grand hotel. One of their big recent movies is most definitely Casino Royale.
MGM's lions
Before becoming "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer", Goldwyn Pictures Corporation’s mascot was a parrot. Since 1924, the lion became Metro's official symbol. There have been 5 different lions used over the years.The first lion's name was "Slats". He was used during 4 years, from 1924 to 1928. Jackie was the lion number two and looked almost exactly like Slats. She was in the beginning of every movie from 1928 to 1956.Tanner was the third lion, used from 1934 to 1956, ands was the new era of films, in the Technicolor films.The fourth lion had an unknown name and was used for about two years.The fifth and last one so far is named Leo (like the lion constellation) and he is still used today.
MGM Grand
I got the privilege of visiting the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas. It’s a beautiful hotel, with an enormous lion's glass cage where visitors can see them all day long. How many hotels can say that they have living lions in it??? This hotel has a total of 9 lions living together. That hotel is also the permanent home of the "Cirque du Soleil's KA", an amazingly well done show.
MGM's lions
Before becoming "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer", Goldwyn Pictures Corporation’s mascot was a parrot. Since 1924, the lion became Metro's official symbol. There have been 5 different lions used over the years.The first lion's name was "Slats". He was used during 4 years, from 1924 to 1928. Jackie was the lion number two and looked almost exactly like Slats. She was in the beginning of every movie from 1928 to 1956.Tanner was the third lion, used from 1934 to 1956, ands was the new era of films, in the Technicolor films.The fourth lion had an unknown name and was used for about two years.The fifth and last one so far is named Leo (like the lion constellation) and he is still used today.
MGM Grand
I got the privilege of visiting the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas. It’s a beautiful hotel, with an enormous lion's glass cage where visitors can see them all day long. How many hotels can say that they have living lions in it??? This hotel has a total of 9 lions living together. That hotel is also the permanent home of the "Cirque du Soleil's KA", an amazingly well done show.
The hotel MGM is situated on the famous Las Vegas Strip and is listed as the second largest hotel all around the world. It has been purchased by Kirk Kerkorian and is one of the few hotels with a floor number thirteen. The hotel has 30 floors, five outdoor pools and a soothing waterfall.The construction was finalized in 1993. To celebrate the last of the construction, MGM had a ceremony and let go of 5000 balloons, each one of them with a gift certificate in it for a free night in the hotel.
The hotel had the wizard of Oz theme back then. There were statues of Dorothy, the scarecrow, Tin man and the Lion. In Las Vegas, big hotels are somewhat called cities. They are calling themselves "the city of entertainment". In the hotel, there was even a yellow brick path road. In 1996, after three years, they changed the style of the hotel: The "Oz Buffet" got his name changed for the "Grand Buffet". Also, the hotel's entrance was a lion's mouth, but superstitious Chinese tourists wouldn't go to the hotel or would choose another entrance because it’s been said that "entering the mouth of a lion is bad luck".
They changed the main entrance to satisfy as much customers as possible. Now the hotel has a more sophisticated look and still has a great success Below is the link to tyhe official MGM Grand Website.
http://www.mgmgrand.com/
http://www.mgmgrand.com/
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The five lions over the years.
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