For the past 100 years, he’s appeared in the MGM logo and roared at the beginning of (almost) every MGM movie. Of course, I’m talking about Leo the Lion. Originally Goldwyn’s logo, Leo took over as MGM’s onscreen representative (while Louis B. Mayer ran the shop in Culver ...
It goes that the lion was originally meant to be standing proud and silent, but roared when two burglars rushed into the warehouse. The burglars in question were Boris Regina and Karl Maninovsky. Supposedly, Regina and Maninovsky would regularly rob banks and stash their loot at a warehouse ...
Perhaps the studio’s biggest star was hired on April 17, 1924, as part of themergerbetween Marcus Loew’s Metro Pictures, Sam Goldwyn’s Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. For the past 100 years, he’s appeared in the MGM logo and roared at the beginning of (almost) ever...