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| name = Fried Green Tomatoes

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| director = [[Jon Avnet]]

| producer = [[Jon Avnet]]

| writer = [[Fannie Flagg]]<br />[[Carol Sobieski]]

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| starring = [[Kathy Bates]]<br />[[Mary Stuart Masterson]]<br />[[Mary-Louise Parker]]<br />[[Jessica Tandy]]

| music = [[Jo Jo Hailey]]<br />[[K-Ci Hailey]]<br />[[Thomas Newman]]

| cinematography = [[Geoffrey Simpson]]

| editing = [[Debra Neil-Fisher]]

| distributor = [[Universal Pictures]]

| released = [[December 27]] [[1991]]

| runtime = 136 min.

| country = {{USA}}

| language = [[English language|English]]

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'''''Fried Green Tomatoes''''' is a [[1991]] drama film based on the novel ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe]]'' by [[Fannie Flagg]]. It was released in the [[UK]] under the novel's full title.

The film was directed by [[Jon Avnet]] and written by [[Fannie Flagg]] and [[Carol Sobieski]]. It stars [[Kathy Bates]], [[Jessica Tandy]], [[Mary-Louise Parker]] and [[Mary Stuart Masterson]]. It received a [[MPAA film rating system|PG-13]] rating from the [[Motion Picture Association of America|MPAA]].

[[Image:Mgmlogob.jpg|thumb|302px|Leo the Lion in the MGM logo]]

'''Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer''' or '''MGM''', was, until 2005, a [[medium|media]] company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of [[film|cinema]] and [[television]] programs. The company was acquired by a partnership led by [[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] and [[Comcast|Comcast Corporation]] for $US2.9 billion. The sale was completed on [[April 8]], [[2005]].

==Cast==

{| class="wikitable"

|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"

! Actor !! Role

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| [[Kathy Bates]] || Evelyn Couch

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| [[Mary Stuart Masterson]] || Idgie Threadgoode

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| [[Mary-Louise Parker]] || Ruth Jamison

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| [[Jessica Tandy]] || Ninny Threadgoode

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| [[Cicely Tyson]] || Sipsey

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| [[Chris O'Donnell]] || Buddy Threadgoode

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| [[Stan Shaw]] || Big George

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| [[Gailard Sartain]] || Ed Couch

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| [[Timothy Scott]] || Smokey Lonesome (as Tim Scott)

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| [[Gary Basaraba]] || Grady Kilgore

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| [[Lois Smith]] || Mama Threadgoode

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| [[Jo Harvey Allen]] || Women's Awareness Teacher

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| [[Macon McCalman]] || Prosecutor

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| [[Richard Riehle]] || Reverend Scroggins

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| [[Raynor Scheine]] || Curtis Smoot

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| [[Grace Zabriskie]] || Eva Bates

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| [[Reid Binion]] || Young Julian

|}

==Organisation Plot summary ==

MGM's principal subsidiaries are:

*'''MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios)'''

*'''[[United Artists Pictures Corporation]]'''

*'''[[Orion Pictures Corporation]]'''

*'''[[The Samuel Goldwyn Company]]'''

Evelyn Couch ([[Kathy Bates]]) meets an elderly woman named Ninny Threadgoode ([[Jessica Tandy]]) in a nursing home waiting room. Ninny tells her the story of the now-abandoned town of Whistle Stop, [[Alabama]], and the people that lived there - specifically the tale of the relationship between Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, the two women that ran the Whistle Stop Cafe. As the story of Idgie and Ruth (and a missing person) develops, Evelyn Couch finds herself being empowered by the stories of the strong-willed Idgie and the fiercely loyal and independent Ruth. She also finds a true best friend in Ninny.

==History==

===The beginning===

The name combines those of three film production companies which merged in April, [[1924]]: [[Metro Pictures Corporation]] (formed in [[1916]]), [[Goldwyn Picture Corporation]] ([[1917]]), and [[Louis B. Mayer Pictures]] ([[1918]]). M-G-M was controlled by Loews, Inc., the vaudeville-and-movie theater chain founded by [[Marcus Loew]] in 1904. Because of his success as an independent producer, [[Louis B. Mayer]] was made head of the studio, with the twenty-five year old "boy wonder" [[Irving Thalberg]] as head of production. Though Loew's Metro was the dominant partner, Goldwyn provided the production facility at their Culver City studio, as well as mascot Leo the Lion (Metro's symbol was a parrot.) Goldwyn's corporate motto ''"Ars Gratia Artis'''' ([[Art for Art's Sake]]) also survived the merger.

'''Expanded information'''

Also inherited from Goldwyn was a runaway production, ''[[Ben Hur]]'', which had been filming in Rome for months without producing much useable film. Mayer showed his command of the situation by scrapping most of what had been shot and bringing production back to Culver City. Though ''Ben Hur'' was the most costly film made up to its time, it became M-G-M's first great public-relations triumph, establishing an image for the company that persisted for years.

The action takes place in Alabama. The heroine, Evelyn Couch, is a housewife. Evelyn is unhappy with her life and her marriage and her husband Ed appears to not be interested in her any more. Their son Cal is grown and is "busy with his own life." She has a lot of problems including thinking very lowy of herself. She and Ed are visiting his aunt in a nursing home and there in a waiting room she meets an old but very nice woman - Ninny Threadgoode.

Marcus Loew died in 1927, and control of Loews passed to his associate, [[Nicholas M. Schenck]]. Rival theater-owner and entrepreneur [[William Fox]] saw an opportunity to expand his empire, and in 1929, with Schenck's assent, bought the Loew family's holdings. Mayer and Thalberg, employees and not shareholders, were outraged; Mayer in particular used his political connections to launch a Justice Department action. Also working for them was a bit or morbid luck: Fox was badly injured in a car accident; by the time he recovered, the 1929 stock-market crash had left him broke, and the Loew deal was off. But this incident led to a Hollywood-New York antagonism that would last for thrity years.

Ninny tells her stories about the life of two women she used to know. The heroines of her story are Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison. Together they ran the Whistle Stop Cafe in Ninny's small Alabama home town. The film is named “Fried Green Tomatoes” because it is a feature dish at the cafe. From Ninny’s recollections Evelyn knows that Ruth loved Idgie’s brother who was killed in a railway accident. Then follows the story of the relationship between Ruth and Idgie.

===MGM's golden age===

Right from the beginning, MGM tapped into the audience's need for glamour and sophistication. Having inherited few big names from their predecessor companies, Mayer and Thalberg began at once to create (and publicize) a host of new stars, among them [[Greta Garbo]], [[John Gilbert]], [[William Haines]], [[Norma Shearer]] and [[Joan Crawford]]. Established names like [[Lon Chaney]], [[William Powell]], [[Buster Keaton]] and [[Wallace Beery]] were hired from other studios. The arrival of talking pictures in 1928-29 gave opportunities to other new stars, many of whom would carry MGM through the 1930s: [[Clark Gable]], [[Jean Harlow]], [[Robert Montgomery]] and [[Myrna Loy]] among them.

Ruth and Idgie’s story is about their life after Buddy's death. Idgie helps Ruth to become free from her abusive husband. These two strong women work together to raise Ruth's son. He loses an arm in a railway accident. It is a very touching story of friendship and love, as well as courage and self-sacrifice.

Like its rivals, MGM produced fifty pictures a year. Loews theaters were mostly located in New York and the northeast, so MGM films were often sophisticated, polished entertainments. As the depression deepened, MGM could make a claim its rivals could not: it never lost money. No matter how bad the economy, MGM showed a profit every quarter all through the thirties.

The recollections of Ninny greatly influences Evelyn. First she is inspired by the strength and strong-will of these two independent women, and Evelyn’s life changes for the better. Second, she finds a true best friend in Ninny. Evelyn invites Ninny to live with her after Ninny's house in Whistle Stop is destroyed.

Irving Thalberg, always physically frail, was removed as head of production in 1932. L.B. Mayer encouraged other staff producers, among them his son-in-law, [[David O. Selznick]], but no one seemed to have the sure touch of Thalberg. Rumors flew that Thalberg was leaving to set up his own independent company; his early death in [[1936]] at age thirty-seven, cost MGM dearly in terms of quality. Still, the company remained profitable, although a change toward "series" pictures (''Andy Hardy'', ''Maisie'', the ''Thin Man''' pictures, et al.) is seen by some as evidence of Mayer's restored influence.

The ending leads you to believe that Ninny is in fact Idgie herself, but her statements during the film do not support this.

Increasingly, before and during World War II, Mayer came to rely on his "College of Cardinals", senior producers who controlled the studio's output. This management-by-committee may explain why MGM seemed to lose its momentum, developing few new stars and relying on the safety of sequels and bland material. Production values remained high, and even 'B' pictures carried a polish and gloss that made them expensive to mount, and artificial in tone. After 1940, production was cut from fifty pictures a year to a more manageable twenty-five features per year.

==Differences between the film and novel==

During this time MGM also launched an [[animation]] unit. [[Hugh Harman]] and [[Rudolph Ising]] came from Warner Bros, and were joined in [[1941]] by [[Tex Avery]]. It was Avery who gave the unit its image, with successes like ''[[Red Hot Riding Hood]]'', ''[[Swing Shift Cinderella]]'', and the [[Droopy]] series. MGM's biggest cartoon stars, however, were the cat-and-mouse duo of [[Tom and Jerry (cartoon)|Tom and Jerry]], created by [[William Hanna]] and [[Joseph Barbera]].

The film version does not present the lesbian romance between the two central characters, making it appear, to viewers who had not read the book, that Idgie and Ruth were merely best friends. The [[DVD]] edition of the film has an audio commentary with the director acknowledging this and pointing out that a scene between the two women engaging in a food fight was intended to be seen as symbolic love-making.

Tom and Jerry won several [[Academy Awards|Oscars]] and nominations.

The character [[Artis O. Peavey]], who was a favorite of many in the novel, did not merit an appearance. Additionally, in the novel every important character has his or her own backstory, but many of these were eliminated in the film version.

As audiences drifted away after the war, MGM found it rough going. While other studios backed away from the popular [[musicals]] of the war years, MGM increased its output to as many as five or six each year, roughly one-quarter of its annual output. Such pictures were expensive to produce, requiring a full staff of songwriters, arrangers, musicians, dancers, and technical support, and mounting five or six each year ate into profits. By the late forties, as MGM's profit-margin became paper-thin, word came from New York: find another "boy genius" who could up quality while paring costs. L.B. Mayer thought he had found this savior in Dore Schary, a writer and producer who had had a couple of successful years running RKO.

In the novel, Evelyn tries, unsuccessfully, to lose weight on her own several times and, eventually, resorts to going to a weight loss spa. In the film, Evelyn is able to control her dietary habits and maintain a regular exercise regimen on her own.

Mayer's taste for wholesomeness and "beautiful" movies conflicted with Schary's charge to cut costs and produce better pictures. In [August 1951]], after a period of friendly antagonism with Schary, Mayer was given his walking papers by Nick Schenck. An embittered Mayer, dismissed after twenty-seven years as head of the studio, never produced another picture.

In the novel, Ninny passes away while Evelyn is visiting a weight loss spa. However, in the film, Ninny leaves the nursing home and ends up going to live with Evelyn and Ed in their home.

Gradually cutting loose expensive contract actors, Schary managed to keep the studio running much as it had through the early [[1950s]]. Under Schary, MGM produced some well-regarded musicals, among them ''[[An American in Paris (Movie)|An American in Paris]]'', ''[[Singin' in the Rain (movie)|Singin' in the Rain]]'' and ''[[The Band Wagon]]''. But generally it was a losing fight, as the mass audience preferred to stay home with television.

The novel's version of Evelyn is somewhat darker than her film portrayal. In the novel, Evelyn is extremely depressed over her weight and how her life has turned to the point of considering suicide. While her unhappiness with her marriage and weight are stated in the film, the degree of seriousness is much lighter than in the novel.

In 1954, as a settlement of the government's restraint-of-trade action, [[U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures, et al.]], Loews, Inc. gave up control of MGM. It would take another five years before the inter-locking arrangements were completely undone, by which time both Loews and MGM were sinking.

The passage of time in the novel and the film is portrayed differently. In the novel, the events of the story are stretched and explored just after the ending of [[World War I]] up to the late 1980's. In the film, most of the story takes place between 1919 and the late 1930's.

===The lion loses its roar===

As the studio system faded in the late [[1950s]] and [[1960s]], so did MGM's prestige. In [[1957]] (by coincidence, the year L.B. Mayer died, the studio lost money for the first time. Prior to this, in [[1956]], cost overruns and the failure of the big-budget epic ''[[Raintree County]]'' prompted the studio to release Schary from his contract. Schary's reign at MGM had been marked with few bona-fide hits, and his departure (along with the retirement of Schenck in [[1955]]) left a power vacuum that would prove difficult to fill.

In the novel, Idgie and Big George are placed on trial for the murder of Frank Bennett years after Ruth has passed away. In the film, the trial takes place less than a year before Ruth's death in which she testifies on Idgie's behalf.

Television, thought to be a passing fad, increasingly dominated entertainment, and at the urging of [[Leonard Goldenson]], longtime head of Paramount's theater chain who now ran [[American Broadcasting Comnpany|ABC]], MGM made a few feeble moves into the new medium. Like those of the other studios, MGM's first attempts at programming were either glorified trailers (''[[M-G-M Parade]]''), or based on past movie successes like ''[[The Thin Man]]'' or ''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Father]]''.

==Box office==

[[Image:MGM-1968.PNG|thumb|250px|The MGM logo at time of [[2001: A Space Odyssey]] release in 1968.]]

The film grossed a total of $82,418,501 in the United States alone, and took in $37,000,000 outside the U.S., bringing the total to $119,418,501 worldwide [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=friedgreentomatoes.htm].

==Awards==

[[1957]] also marked the end of the cartoon era at MGM, as the animation unit was closed. Hanna and Barbera left to start [[Hanna-Barbera Productions]], and production of Tom and Jerry shorts was outsourced, first to an Eastern European-based unit led by [[Gene Deitch]], and then to [[Chuck Jones]]'s "Sib Tower 12 Productions". Jones' group also produced their own works, winning an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] for ''[[The Dot and the Line]]'', as well as producing the classic television version of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]'' (with [[Theodore Geisel]]). Jones' association with MGM ended in [[1967]].

[[Image:Dvd fried green tomatoes.jpg|thumb|130px|right|DVD cover]]

The movie was nominated for [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]] (Jessica Tandy) and for [[Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium]] (Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski).

==The Café==

MGM fell into a habit in this period which would eventually sink the studio: an entire year's production schedule was reliant on the success of one big-budget epic each year. This policy began well, in [[1959]], when an expensive remake of ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' was profitable enough to carry the studio through 1960. But later attempts at big-budget epics failed, among them ''[[Cimarron]]'' (1961), ''[[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]'' (1961), and most notoriously, the 1962 remake of ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty]]''.

The "Whistle Stop Café" is loosely based on a real-life restaurant, the Irondale Café in [[Irondale, Alabama]]. The restaurant is still very much in operation, and is something of a local tourist attraction, thanks to the novel and movie. It is famous for its [[Fried green tomatoes (food)|fried green tomatoes]], and is located adjacent to the main line of the [[Norfolk Southern Railroad]] (formerly [[Southern Railway (US)|Southern Railway]]) and very near one of the line's large [[classification yard]]s.

Irondale is a suburb of [[Birmingham, Alabama]], Flagg's birthplace. After the film became a hit, the set used as the Whistle Stop Café, on ___location in [[Juliette, Georgia]], was converted into a real restaurant, and is still a tourist attraction.

As MGM sank (along with the other main-line studios), a series of studio heads came and went, along with a succession of corporate managers, all hoping to bring back the studio's glory days.

A second Whistle Stop Café ___location can now be found on Houston Rd in [[Macon, Georgia]].

===Kerkorian takes over===

A third Whistle Stop Cafe can can be found in downtown Kennesaw in Georgia.

In 1967, MGM was sold to the Canadian investor Edgar Bronfman (whose son Edgar, Jr. would later buy Universal Pictures.)

Two years later, an increasingly unprofitable MGM was bought (though some say [[corporate raid|raided]]) by Nevada millionaire [[Kirk Kerkorian]]. What appealed to Kerkorian was MGM's Culver City real estate, and the value of forty-five years' worth of glamour associated with the name, which he attached to a Las Vegas hotel and casino. As for film-making, that part of the company was quickly and severely [[Downsizing|downsized]] under the supervision of [[James T. Aubrey, Jr.]] Aubrey, known from his days as head of programming at [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]] as "the smiling cobra", sold off the studio's accumulation of props, furnishings and historical memorabilia, including Dorothy's red slippers (from ''The Wizard of Oz''). Also put up for sale was venerable Lot 3, forty acres of back-lot property which became an up-scale real-estate project.

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Through the [[1970s]] studio output slowed considerably; Aubrey preferred four or five medium-budget pictures each year, along with a smattering of low-budget fare. With output cut back so severely, Kerkorian closed MGM's sales and distribution offices in [[1973]], handing that duty to United Artists. Kerkorian now distanced himself from the operations of the studio, focusing on his casino properties. Another chunk of the back lot was sold in [1974]]; the last shooting done on the backlot was the introductory segments for ''[[That's Entertainment!]]'' a retrospective [[documentary]] that became a hit for the studio.

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In [[1979]], Kerkorian conceded that MGM was now primarily a [[hotel]] company, but he did commit to increased production and an expanded film library when he bought the sinking [[United Artists]] in [[1981]].

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===MGM/UA, Turner and Pathe===

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Following the United Artists acquisition, the company was re-christened "MGM/UA Communications." UA, which was essentially bankrupot following the disaster of ''[[Heaven's Gate]]'', cut its production schedule sharply.

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Following a failed attempt to take over [[Columbia Broadcasting Syaytem|CBS]] in 1985, the ambitious media entrepreneur [[Ted Turner]] offered to buy MGM/UA. But his bankers, concerned about the already heavy debt-load his companies carried, refused to back him, and exactly seventy-four days later, Turner announced he was re-selling most of MGM/UA to Kirk Kerkorian. For roughly one-and-a-half-billion dollars, Turner retained the one MGM asset he really craved, the MGM film library. Kerkorian got United Artists and rights to the MGM name and [[trademark]]. The venerable Culver City lot, home to MGM and its predecessor since 1918, was sold to [[Lorimar]], an ambitious television production company.

How much of MGM's back catalogue Turner actually got was a point of conflict for a time; eventually it was determined that Turner owned all of the MGM library, dating back to pre-merger days, as well as the extensive UA library, which comprised of the pre-1948 Warner Bros. catalogue, the entire RKO library, and a good share of United Artists's own backlist.

Having sold and re-purchased MGM, Kerkorian continued to profit from this corporate shell game. In [[1990]], an obscure Italian promoter, [[Giancarlo Parretti]], announced that he had taken control of France's [[Pathe Freres]], and was about to buy MGM/UA. Despite a cloudy past (and denials of having been sold by Pathe), Parretti got backing from [[Credit Lyonnais]] and took control of MGM/UA. But his house of cards quickly collapsed, and in [[1992]], Parretti having defaulted, Credit Lyonnais became the new owner of MGM.

Despie a few commercial successes, Credit Lyonnais was unable to stem the tide of red ink during the mid-[[1990s]]; putting the studio up for sale, it found only one willing bidder: Kirk Kerkorian. Now the owner of MGM for the third time, Kerkorian at last conceded that a solid business plan was the studio's only hope. By committing to more and better pictures, selling a portion of the studio to Australia's [[Seven Network]], and installing a professional management team, Kerkorian was able to convince Wall Street that a revived MGM was worhty of a place on the stock market.

But despite a few successful pictures and a re-built film library, it was clear that MGM could not compete in a business which required hundreds of millions in capital for even the most ordinary picture.

===1997-present===

In [[1997]], MGM bought [[John Kluge]]'s collection of film properties ([[Orion Pictures Corporation|Orion Pictures]], [[Goldwyn Entertainment]], and the [[Motion Picture Corporation of America]]), enlarging their catalogue. It was this catalogue, along with the James Bond franchise, which was considered to be MGM's primary asset.

The first suitor was [[Time Warner]]; it was not unexpected that Time-Warner would bid, since the largest shareholder in the company was Ted Turner. His Turner Entertainment group had risen to success in part through its ownership of the pre-1986 MGM/UA library.

The leading bidder, though, proved to be Sony, backed by Comcast and [[venture capital]] bankers [[Texas Pacific]] Group and [[Providence Equity Partners]]. As noted above it is expected that MGM will produce occasional films independent of Sony's other units. Time Warner made a counter-bid (which Ted Turner reportedly tried to block), but on [[September 13]], [[2004]], Sony increased its bid of [[US dollar|$]]11.25/share (roughly $4.7 billion) to $12/share ($5 billion), and Time Warner subsequently withdrew its bid of $11/share ($4.5 billion).

MGM and Sony agreed on a purchase price of nearly $5 billion, of which about $2 billion was to pay off MGM debt [http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/13/news/fortune500/twx_mgm/?cnn=yes] [http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=582625&section=finance].

While the MGM name may live on, Sony has no disclosed any plan to revive or use the United Artists name.

==Notable films==

===1920s===

*[[He Who Gets Slapped]] (1924)

*[[Ben-Hur (1925 film)|Ben-Hur]] (1925)

*[[The Big Parade]] (1925)

*[[La bohème]] (1926)

*[[Flesh and the Devil]] (1926)

*[[The Scarlet Letter]] (1926)

*[[Our Dancing Daughters]] (1928, plus two sequels)

*[[The Cameraman]] (1928)

*[[Show People]] (1928)

*[[The Crowd]] (1928)

*[[The Broadway Melody]] (1929, plus several more films in that series)

*[[The Hollywood Revue of 1929]] (1929)

===1930s===

*[[Anna Christie]] (1930)

*[[The Champ]] (1931)

*[[Grand Hotel (film)|Grand Hotel]] (1932)

*[[Tarzan the Ape Man]] (1932)

*[[Freaks]] (1932)

*[[Dinner at Eight]] (1933)

*[[Queen Christina]] (1933)

*[[The Thin Man]] (1934)

*[[A Night at the Opera (movie)|A Night at the Opera]] (1935)

*[[David Copperfield]] (1935)

*[[Mutiny on the Bounty (fiction)#The 1935 Version|Mutiny on the Bounty]] (1935)

*[[Camille (movie)|Camille]] (1936)

*[[The Great Ziegfeld]] (1936)

*[[A Day at the Races (movie)|A Day at the Races]] (1937)

*[[Boys Town]] (1938)

*[[Babes in Arms]] (1939)

*[[Gone With the Wind]] (1939, distribution only)

*[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie)|The Wizard of Oz]] (1939)

*[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]] (1939)

*[[The Women]] (1939)

*[[Ninotchka]] (1939)

===1940s===

*[[The Shop Around the Corner]] (1940)

*[[The Philadelphia Story]] (1940)

*[[The Mortal Storm]] (1940)

*[[Woman of the Year]] (1942)

*[[Mrs. Miniver]] (1942)

*[[Cabin in the Sky]] (1943)

*[[A Guy Named Joe]] (1943)

*[[Lassie Come Home]] (1943)

*[[Gaslight]] (1944)

*[[Meet Me in St. Louis]] (1944)

*[[The White Cliffs of Dover]] (1944)

*[[National Velvet]] (1944)

*[[Anchors Aweigh (movie)|Anchors Aweigh]] (1945)

*[[The Harvey Girls]] (1946)

*[[Easter Parade]] (1948)

*[[On the Town]] (1949)

*[[Adam's Rib]] (1949)

*[[Battleground]] (1949)

===1950s===

*[[Annie Get Your Gun]] (1950)

*[[Summer Stock]] (1950)

*[[Father of the Bride]] (1950)

*[[The Red Badge of Courage]] (1951)

*[[An American in Paris (Movie)|An American in Paris]] (1951)

*[[Singin' in the Rain (movie)|Singin' in the Rain]] (1952)

*[[The Bad and the Beautiful]] (1952)

*[[The Band Wagon]] (1953)

*[[Kiss Me, Kate]] (1953)

*[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]] (1954)

*[[Blackboard Jungle]] (1955)

*[[I'll Cry Tomorrow]] (1955)

*[[Forbidden Planet]] (1956)

*[[High Society]] (1956) (remake of [[The Philadelphia Story]])

*[[Silk Stockings]] (1957) (remake of [[Ninotchka]])

*[[Jailhouse Rock]] (1957)

*[[Raintree County]] (1957)

*[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]] (1958)

*[[Gigi]] (1958)

*[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]] (1959, remake of 1925 film)

*[[North by Northwest]] (1959)

===1960s===

*[[Butterfield 8]] (1960)

*[[Where the Boys Are]] (1960)

*[[King of Kings]] (1961)

*[[Cimarron (1960 movie)|Cimarron]] (1961, remake of 1931 film)

*[[Mutiny on the Bounty (fiction)#The 1962 Version|Mutiny on the Bounty]] (1962, remake of 1935 film)

*[[How The West Was Won]] (1962)

*[[The Courtship of Eddie's Father]] (1963)

*[[Viva Las Vegas]] (1964)

*[[The Americanization of Emily]] (1964)

*[[The Cincinnati Kid]] (1965)

*[[Doctor Zhivago]] (1965)

*[[Blow-Up]] (1966)

*[[Grand Prix (movie)|Grand Prix]] (1966)

*[[Point Blank]] (1967)

*[[The Dirty Dozen]] (1967)

*[[2001: A Space Odyssey]] (1968)

*[[Ice Station Zebra]] (1968)

*[[Where Eagles Dare]] (1968)

*[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips]] (1969, remake of 1939 film)

===1970s===

*[[Ryan's Daughter]] (1970)

*[[Shaft (1971 movie)|Shaft]] (1971)

*[[Soylent Green]] (1973)

*[[That's Entertainment!]] (1974, plus two sequels in 1976 and 1994)

*[[The Wind and the Lion]] (1975)

*[[The Sunshine Boys]] (1975)

*[[Logan's Run]] (1976)

*[[The Goodbye Girl]] (1977)

*[[The Champ]] (1979, remake of 1931 film)

===1980s===

*[[Fame (movie, TV series, and theme song)|Fame]] (1980)

*[[Pennies From Heaven]] (1981)

*[[Diner]] (1982)

*[[Victor/Victoria]] (1982)

*[[Poltergeist movie series|Poltergeist]] (1982, followed by two sequels in 1986 and 1988)

*[[A Christmas Story]] (1983)

*[[Spaceballs]] (1987)

*[[Hollywood Shuffle]] (1987)

*[[Moonstruck]] (1987)

*[[A Fish Called Wanda]] (1988)

*[[Rain Man]] (1988)

*[[The Mighty Quinn]] (1989)

*[[A Dry White Season]] (1989)

===1990s===

*[[The Russia House]] (1990)

*[[Misery]] (1990)

*[[Thelma & Louise]] (1991)

*[[The Cutting Edge]] (1992)

*[[Benny & Joon]] (1993)

*[[Get Shorty]] (1995)

*[[Goldeneye]] (1995, distribution only)

*[[Ronin]] (1998)

*[[The World Is Not Enough]] (1999, distribution only)

===2000s===

*[[Hannibal (movie)|Hannibal]] (2001)

*[[Legally Blonde]] (2001)

*[[Barbershop (movie)|Barbershop]] (2002)

*[[Die Another Day]] (2002, distribution only)

*[[Agent Cody Banks]] (2003)

*[[De-Lovely]] (2004)

*[[Be Cool]] (2005)

*[[Beauty Shop]] (2005)

==External link==

*[http://www.mgm.com/ Official site]

*{{bcdb2|path=bcdb/page.cgi?g=MGM|title=MGM Studios}}

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