#mgm

In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#beginning #contract #convince #every #every time

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#couple #doing #got #having #i

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did. ↗

— Esther Williams

#gave #i #mgm #really #true

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#empire #fall #fast #last #like

I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM. ↗

— Walter Pidgeon

#i #kept #like #mgm #twenty-one

From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

#god #hands #just #mgm #signed

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river. ↗

— Ann Rutherford

#always #because #brothers #contract #down

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#became #came #chain #chicago #family

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#ballet #because #chaplin #everything #films

We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records. ↗

— Casey Kasum

#away #certain #could #first #gave