The Golden Age of Hollywood: MGM Turns 100 and A Little Girl Turns 97
6 min readApr 15, 2024
By Mike Szymanski (all photos by Mike except as noted)
It’s a true Hollywood story.
On April 19, 1935, MGM Studio chief Louis B. Mayer had a brainstorm and celebrated the joint birthdays of the studio’s youngest star Cora Sue Collins along with one of the oldest stars May Robson. It was to be a great publicity stunt with…