The Dream Factory
The Dream Factory is a podcast about the sometimes magical, sometimes terrifying world of MGM studios during Hollywood's golden age. Join host Derek Lajeunesse and fellow movie fans as they reawaken the ghosts of MGM, deep diving into people and the films that defined an era of moviemaking.
The Dream Factory
MGM History (Part 1)
Welcome to the Dream Factory! For our first episodes we are taking a documentary style approach to the history of the first 50 years of MGM. I am joined by movie buff Nate Hallett to explore the history of the people and films that were the backbone of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during Hollywood's Golden Age.
We start before the establishment of the studio in 1924 to the events and people who made the creation possible. We trace early MGM successes and the bumpy transition to the talkies into its heyday of the 1930s, where lavish and glamorous productions thrived under the co-leadership of L.B. Mayer and "boy wonder" Irving Thalberg, Mayer being the administrative head, Thalberg the creative force who brought sophistication and class to the studio as well as cultivating stars and setting in motion key movies series that MGM would become known for...but tragedy would rock the studio in 1936.
After these initial three MGM history episodes, we will take a much more conversational and chatty tone breaking down several key MGM films...we hope you continue to join us for this unique glimpse into a movie company that still has influence today.
Thanks for listening!
Derek
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