Katharine Hepburn was known for being domineering with her co-stars, but one of them had a particularly intense experience.

With “Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation,” the film critic and author Kenneth Turan takes on a biography ...

Any book about the life of Louis B. Mayer can't escape being a history of the place that took the studio system to its purest, and most infuriating, heights. No studio was more favorable to producers ...

In Kenneth Turan's 'Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation,' he explores how the titans' collaboration came to be so consequential, and how their Jewishness influenced their success.

In Kenneth Turan's 'Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation,' he explores how the titans' collaboration came to be so consequential, and how their Jewishness influenced their success.

Louis B. Mayer, Jesse Lasky, Carl Laemmle, Sam Goldwyn, and David O. Selznick to name a few early moguls. And formidable directors who used their authority to make auteur films—D.W. Griffith, ...

In Kenneth Turan's 'Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation,' he explores how the titans' collaboration came to be so consequential, and how their Jewishness influenced their success.

Daniel Mayer Selznick, a one-time television producer and preserver of film history who was also one of the last direct links to two of Hollywood’s most storied families, died Friday of natural ...

Adam Gopnik reviews “Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation,” by Kenneth Turan.

It took until January 1926 to add the de facto studio boss Louis B. Mayer’s handle, and thus was born Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, almost immediately nicknamed MGM. But one name was still missing.