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

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

Kenneth Turan’s splendid book about Hollywood titans Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg is the first in 50 years to tell their story in a single volume. Part of Yale University Press ...

(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 ...

“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 ...