In the heyday of Hollywood in 1930s, MGM was the largest film company, producing 40-50 films every year. MGM has the most popular movie stars and directors in America during this period, such as G. Garbo, C. Gable, J. Hello, S. Tracy, R. Taylor, J. Crawford, N. Sheila and so on. And directors, such as E. von Strauhen, K. Vito, F. Langer, G. George Cukor, V.
From the 1930s to the end of World War II, MGM produced hundreds of films, except a few, such as A Piece of Meat for the Rest of My Life, Bounty for the mutiny (1935), La Traviata (1939) and Madame Miniver (/kloc-). MGM, like an industrial product assembly line in a factory, mass-produced this kind of film day after day, winning the reputation of "DreamWorks" for Hollywood. From the late 1940s to the early 1950s, MGM once focused on shooting large-scale musical films, and made several distinctive musical films, such as Singing in the Rain (1952).
In 1950s, the American film industry was in crisis, and the company's film production decreased year by year. From the early 1970s to the 1980s, only three or four films were made each year. In the early 1970s, K. Kerkorian, a big capitalist in Las Vegas, bought MGM. MGM began to diversify and set foot in real estate, hotels and other profitable aspects of casinos such as Las Vegas and Renault. By the end of 1970s, MGM prospered again, and production was only one of the broad business scope of the company. 198 1 year, MGM bought an American company and renamed it MGM-American Entertainment Company, becoming one of the largest film production companies in the world.