Producer Irving Thalberg was called the Boy Wonder of Hollywood. By age 20 he ran Universal Pictures, and at age 24 he co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His status was so large, in fact, that F. Scott ...

Irving Thalberg Boy Wonder to Producer Prince by Mark A. Vieira California, 528 pp., $34.95 Early one morning in 1970, at my desk at the now long defunct Chicago publishing firm called Quadrangle ...

Anybody who knows the way that the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences rolls, knows that its board of governors does nothing without an ulterior motive. So the decision to make an entirely new ...

The audience is never wrong. Which is why Irving Thalberg put great faith in preview screenings to shape the pictures he supervised during the glory days of MGM. Hollywood’s original boy wonder ...

At the peak of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the Golden Age of Hollywood, audiences knew the name of the studio on the silver screen signaled something wonderful was about to begin. “If they would go to a ...