Summer Stock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production number 1477: side one, Feel Like Singing, scene 2402, disc number 27706, rpm 80; side two, Happy Harvest, scene 2401, disc number 27705 National Museum of ...

Summer Holiday, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production 1386, Spring Everything, scene 2213, 2214, disc number MGM 27200, rpm 80 ...

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studio’s head of production Irving Thalberg, left, joins studio chief Louis B. Mayer, center, and a producer Harry Rapf, right, in a meeting in the early 1930s.

The grandest studio of Hollywood’s golden age was formed on April 17, 1924, as Metro-Goldwyn productions, using the names of just two of three merged companies. It took until January 1926 to add ...

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studio’s head of production Irving Thalberg, left, joins studio chief Louis B. Mayer, center, and a producer Harry Rapf, right, in a meeting in the early 1930s.

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studio’s head of production Irving Thalberg, left, joins studio chief Louis B. Mayer, center, and a producer Harry Rapf, right, in a meeting in the early 1930s.

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studio’s head of production Irving Thalberg, left, joins studio chief Louis B. Mayer, center, and a producer Harry Rapf, right, in a meeting in the early 1930s.