Mayer biography
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Louis B. Mayer
Canadian-American film producer (1884–1957)
Not to be confused with the jurist Louis B. Meyer.
Louis Burt Mayer (; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884[3] – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American[1] film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood.
Mayer was born in the village of Dymer, in what is now Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and grew up poor in Saint John, New Brunswick. He quit school at 12 to support his family and later moved to Boston and purchased and renovated a small vaudeville theatre in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He renovated and expanded several other theatres in the Boston area catering to audiences of higher social classes. After expanding and moving to Los Angeles, he teamed with film producer Irving Thalberg and they developed hundreds of films. Mayer handled the business of running the studio, such as setting budgets and approving new productions, while Thalberg, still in his twenties, supervised all MGM productions.
Mayer claimed to believe in "wholesome entertainment" and went to g
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John Mayer
American musician (born 1977)
This article is about the American singer. For other people named John Mayer, see John Mayer (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with John Mayall or John Moyer.
Musical artist
John Clayton Mayer[1] (MAY-ər; born October 16, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.[2] He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but he left for Atlanta in 1997 with fellow guitarist Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play at local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a minor following. He performed at the 2000 South by Southwest festival, and was subsequently signed by Aware Records, an imprint of Columbia Records through which he released his debut extended play (EP), Inside Wants Out (1999). His first two studio albums—Room for Squares (2001) and Heavier Things (2003)—were both met with critical and commercial success; the former spawned the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland", which won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, while the latter peaked atop the Billboard 200.
By 2005, Mayer had moved away from the acoustic music that characterized his early records, and further delved into the blu
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John Mayer
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