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1. "From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands."
Author: Ann Rutherford
2. "Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river."
Author: Ann Rutherford
3. "I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago."
Author: Bob Balaban
4. "The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it."
Author: Carroll Baker
5. "Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."
Author: David O. Selznick
6. "We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects."
Author: David R. Ellis
7. "There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie."
Author: Dean Devlin
8. "I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did."
Author: Esther Williams
9. "Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it."
Author: Esther Williams
10. "Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back."
Author: Garrett Hedlund
11. "When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it."
Author: George Sidney
12. "My first day at MGM they decided to bring this lion out, male, and it was not the best time for him to see me. All of a sudden he thought I was in heat and this lion went into the dressing room, which was just a trailer on the sound stage, and went crazy."
Author: Kim Novak
13. "I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style."
Author: Nellie McKay
14. "I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part."
Author: Q Tip
15. "I first saw 'West Side Story' on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it, bought the album, and memorised the whole thing."
Author: Russ Tamblyn
16. "I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel."
Author: Solomon Burke
17. "The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry."
Author: Tommy Bond
18. "Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes."
Author: Tracie Bennett
19. "I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle."
Author: Zadie Smith

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