A photo mounted on the wall beside text that reads, “Executives - Legendary studio mogul Louis b. mayer cofounded and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) from the company’s inception in 1924 until 1951. Overseeing the production and sitribution of hundreds of movies through creative, financial, casting, and hiring decisions, his power was vast. He established MGM's reputation for big-budget films with some of the most popular stars of Hollywood’s classical era, including Judy Garland. Mayer could be very demanding of his stars, and the studio kept Garland on a destructive cycle of dieting and pills. Galrand later wrote that she was harassed by Mayer for years, though this publiciyt short casts him as a benevolent patriarch.”

Shout out to executives. Wait—

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Photos by John Holdun