{"id":1698,"date":"2016-10-03T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2018-10-18T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:39:29","slug":"mayer-arthur-loeb-1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"MAYER, ARTHUR LOEB, 1886-1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Film executive. Born&#8211; Demopolis, Ala., May 28, 1886. Parents&#8211; Simon and Rachel (Bernheim) Mayer. Married&#8211; Lillie Stein, May 16, 1916. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; A.B., Harvard University, 1907. Moved to New York on his graduation and took a job as a salesman with\u00a0Goldwyn Pictures; later\u00a0employed as director of publicity, advertising and promotion, Paramount Pictures, 1930-1933; operated the Rialto Theater, New York City, 1933-1950; president, Mayer-Burstyn Film Corporation, 1933-1950; president, Mayer-Kingsley Company, 1950-1954; president, Independent Motion Pictures Distributors Association, 1951-1957; assistant coordinating treasurer, World War II war activities of the\u00a0motion picture industries, 1942-1946; film consultant to the Secretary of War, 1943-1946. Lectured and taught courses on the film industry in several universities. Executive vice president, Council of Motion Picture Organizations, 1950-1972; chairman, executive committee, Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, 1953-1974. Honors&#8211; L.H.D., Harvard, 1972; LL.D., Clark University, 1977.\u00a0 Awarded the Medal of Merit by President Truman for his activities in World War II,. Died April 14, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary, New York Times, April 15, 1981; Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Merely Colossal; the Story of the Movies &#8230;. New York; Simon &amp; Schuster, 1953.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Movies. New York; Simon &amp; Schuster, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>The Movie Stars. New York; Doubleday, 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Film executive. Born&#8211; Demopolis, Ala., May 28, 1886. Parents&#8211; Simon and Rachel (Bernheim) Mayer. Married&#8211; Lillie Stein, May 16, 1916. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; A.B., Harvard University, 1907. Moved to New York on his graduation and took a job as a salesman with\u00a0Goldwyn Pictures; later\u00a0employed as director of publicity, advertising and promotion, Paramount Pictures, 1930-1933; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}