The Fall of MGM - How A Hollywood Giant Was Sold For Scraps

Video Description

A look back at the 100-year history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and the successes and failures that defined their time in Hollywood. How did MGM define the early days of Hollywood? What behind the scenes drama shaped them into the studio we know them to be? And how did things go so wrong over the course of a century that the MGM we know was broken into pieces over and over again? It's the story of a Hollywood giant that was sold for scraps. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCialJ2te1CSh8DLU8SK5D_w/join Music: Official Matt Draper Channel Theme by Mono Memory Support Mono Memory: Follow/listen on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2SemMoK JOIN Mono Memory on YT - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ee... Bandcamp Sub - https://monomemory.bandcamp.com/music The Outliers by Droid Bishop Soul and Mind and Book Bag by E's Jammy Jams Pennies from Heaven by Louis Prima Busy City by Track Tribe Gone with the Wind Theme by Max Steiner Stan Wrong Song by Brad Breeck and Cooper Babes Mono No Aware and At Night by Hello Meteor America Online by The Midnight Supernal by Forhill and oDDling In the End by Traxx Sources: MGM: When The Lion Roars by Peter Hay, August 8, 1997 Fade Out: The Calamitous Final Days of MGM by Peter Bart, 1990 https://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2020/1/20/mgm-stories-archive https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/mgm-history-studio-founding-1235880683/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias https://simpleflying.com/mgm-grand-air/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-08-fi-2987-story.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/03/17/amazon-closes-mgm-deal---but-heres-why-you-still-wont-find-wizard-of-oz-or-gone-with-the-wind-on-there/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121021101544/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/11/03/mgm-bankruptcy/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000023/quotes/ https://www.biography.com/actors/judy-garland-pills-diet-wizard-of-oz https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/frank-yablans-dead-at-79-752713/ https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/20/books/books-of-the-times-what-went-wrong-at-m-g-m-by-a-participant.html https://profectusmag.com/american-original-kirk-kerkorian/ https://variety.com/2015/voices/columns/kirk-kerkorian-mgm-never-a-good-fit-1201525500/