The MGM Blogathon : A 90th Anniversary Celebration

Kick up your heels and start singin' in the rain, for the MGM Blogathon is finally here!! 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, founded in 1924, is celebrating their 90th anniversary this year and to celebrate the occasion we are hosting the MGM Blogathon, a three-day event featuring wonderful posts about the talented people that called MGM their home, and the marvelous films that they made. Come join us in celebrating this great studio....we're going to be popping the corks all throughout the year and this blogathon is just the beginning! 

A fantastic array of posts have been submitted from the four corners of the classic film fan world and, which we are pleased to say, do indeed highlight some of the greatest films and actors of MGM's illustrious past.  We have also arranged the posts in chronological order below or, if you'd rather, you can view them by date here. 

If you want to add a post during, or after the blogathon has ended, just shoot us an email and we will be glad to add your post to the lists! Unlike most blogathons we will be collecting posts about MGM throughout the entire year. Our main goal is to celebrate the studio and provide fans with a hub where they can find writings on some of their favorite films, stars, and behind-the-scenes stories....so we don't quibble about dates and such. 

So without more ado.....here are the entries! 

Behind the Scenes

A Brief History of MGM - Silver Scenes

The MGM Logo - All Things Kevyn

Cedric Gibbons, Art Director  - Girls Do Film

Helen Deutsch, Screenwriter - Silver Scenes

The Early Years 

He Who Gets Slapped ( 1924 ) - Nitrate Diva

Zander the Great ( 1925 ) - Movies Silently

The Cameraman ( 1928 ) - Silentology

Platinum Blonde and Beyond - The Lady Eve's Reel Life

The Beast of the City ( 1932 ) - Speakeasy
The Gay Bride ( 1934 ) - Carole and Co.

Greta Garbo and John Gilbert - Critica Retro

Red Dust and Mogambo Revisited - Classic Film Freak

Public Hero No. 1 ( 1935 ) - Silver Screenings

Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 )  - Classic Film Freak

Reckless ( 1935 ) - Imagine MDD

Three Godfathers ( 1936 ) - Caftan Woman

Rose Marie ( 1936 ) - The Rosebud Cinema
A Day at the Races ( 1937 ) - Outspoken and Freckled

The Golden Years

Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ) - Another Old Movie Blog

       Gene Kelly - The Vintage Cameo

The Tarzan Series - Thrilling Days of Yesteryear

The Human Comedy ( 1943 ) - Mildred's Fat Burgers

Katharine Hepburn and Louis B. Mayer - The Great Katharine Hepburn

Adrian and Joan Crawford - A Person in the Dark 

The Andy Hardy Series - Wide Screen World

Gaslight ( 1944 ) - Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

The Dr. Kildare Series - Once Upon a Screen

Marsha Hunt - I See A Dark Theater 

The 1950s 

The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ) - Ramblings of a Cinephile
An American in Paris ( 1951 ) - Silver Screen Modes

Singin' in the Rain ( 1952 ) - Barry Bradford 

The Band Wagon ( 1953 ) - The Classic Movie Hub

Forbidden Planet ( 1956 ) - Destroy All Fanboys

Ben-Hur ( 1925 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) - Phantom Empires

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As a special thank you to our participants we will be giving away three original MGM photographs from the Silverbanks Pictures Archive. Originally we were going to award them to the best written posts, but then we thought that rather competitive and so now we will resort to that tried and true method of fairness....hat drawing. 

At the close of the blogathon we will draw three names from our magic top hat and award the The Champ, the grand chockee of them all, with this behind-the-scenes candid of Mickey Rooney, Peter Lawford and Van Johnson at MGM ( or you can pick from any in our store )....

...while the first prize winner may select their choice of these two original photos :