Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios under the leadership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg enjoyed more success than any other ...

(SOUNDBITE OF MGM LION ROAR) SIMON: ...The great Hollywood film factory... KENNETH TURAN: (Laughter). SIMON: ...Of the 1920s through the '30s, churning out musicals that lifted the Depression and ...

Academy Awards, the film won five Oscars, including best picture. Then came 9/11, a tanking economy and Kevin Spacey.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation." ...

“If they would go to a sneak preview, and the film would would start and it would have the MGM logo, people would applaud,” says Kenneth Turan, the longtime film critic for National Public ...