It took until January 1926 to add the de facto studio boss Louis B. Mayer’s handle, and thus was born Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, almost immediately nicknamed MGM. But one name was still missing. Indeed, it ...

Moviegoers nowadays might not know much of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ... of co-founder Louis B. Mayer, and Irving Thalberg, who served as its head of production following MGM’s inception.