During the 1920s, Buster Keaton was not only one of the funniest men on the silver screen but one of the most ambitious, groundbreaking filmmakers. Totally independent from big-studio interference, he ...

“Steamboat Bill, Jr.” was Buster Keaton’s last independent feature before making, as he would later say, the biggest mistake of his career by giving up his own studio and signing with MGM. Released in ...

Originally silent, the lion's roar was added to films in August 1928 Now that the woes of MGM have forced producers to put the next James Bond movie on hold, what the studio really needs is assistance ...

As was the case with every film project that he cared deeply about, filmmaker King Vidor had to fight long and hard with his studio bosses to get The Crowd produced. Though Vidor's parent studio MGM ...

The Warner Archive Archive Collection will release “Classic Musical Shorts From the Dream Factory 1928-48,” a 35-title collection of MGM short subjects, on May 18. The titles in the four-disc set (two ...