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Marcus Loew (May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927) was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loew's Theatres and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio (MGM).
Apr 29, 2024 · Marcus Loew had his own ideas about what would define their studio and told the press that it was about to create “the greatest motion picture of all time” in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925).
Aug 14, 2017 · There he met fellow furrier Marcus Loew, three years older. Loew was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to a poor family, but prospered in furs and then invested in real estate, especially Vaudeville theaters. Loew suggested Adolph rent an apartment across the street from his own home, and they became lifelong friends.
Executive Marcus Loew was the founder of Loew's, Inc., a huge entertainment company which grew from a New York City theater circuit presenting vaudeville and early moving pictures into one of Hollywood's most successful integrated film corporations.
In 1915, Marcus Loew, still years away from becoming a mogul, took over the New York Theatre and Roof and converted them into cinemas. Both theatres showed the same movies, but on staggered schedules. The films were subsequent-run, and the programs changed frequently, initially on a daily basis and later three times a week.
MARCUS LOEW b. New York, New York, 7 May 1870, d. 5 September 1927 Marcus Loew, the creator of MGM and one of the most successful figures in the motion picture industry during the silent era, was, first and foremost, an exhibitor.
Marcus Loew's is a rags-to-riches story, like those of Adolph Zukor, Samuel Gold-wyn, Louis B. Mayer, and other the founders of the American film industry. Loew had another go at the fur business and barely escaped bankruptcy a second time when the fur trade collapsed.
