He says the publicist started out working for MGM Studio and later branched out on his own.
The Academy Award was originally conceived in the late 1920s by MGM studio boss Louis Mayer to help the film industry improve its artistic image.
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The replica has had several owners, including MGM film studio, which based it in St.
Went Hollywood: bought, sold MGM movie studio 3 times between 1986 and 1996.
Icahn is determined to stop Lions Gate from bidding on debt-laden movie studio MGM.
He also headed MGM's studio in California and its set-up at Borehamwood in England.
Movie studio MGM had commissioned him to invent it.
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If creditors decide to let MGM restructure, the studio has some decent prospects going forward.
He opened the original MGM hotel and casino after picking up the movie studio in 1969.
The studio has been trying to merge with MGM which is on the verge of going bankrupt.
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After months of bidding, MGM has decided to declare bankruptcy rather than sell the storied Hollywood studio.
The vote came after Icahn had made two separate offers to buy up MGM debt in order to merge the company with Lionsagte, a studio where he is the majority shareholders.
With MGM's classic titles long gone to the Warner library, the studio hasn't the riches it once did, but two films need no apology.
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He was president of Caesars World, and when that company was sold to ITT in 1995 he moved over to MGM as chief executive under majority shareholder Kirk Kerkorian, who in recent years has been more focused on his movie studio and auto investments than on his casino company.
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