Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios under the leadership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg enjoyed more success than any other ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The ...

A great film historian, Kevin Brownlow ... but they were being used. But his wife, Norma Shearer - who was a big actress - she was uncertain. But finally, they voted no on the sulfa drugs ...

“If they would go to a sneak preview, and the film would would start and it would ... Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer, later to become Thalberg’s wife. Its movies were both critically and ...