Louis B. Mayer - Death and Legacy

Death and Legacy

Louis B. Mayer died of leukemia on October 29, 1957. He was interred in the Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. His sister, Ida Mayer Cummings, and brothers Jerry and Rubin are also interred there.

• The primary screening facility for Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television—the Mayer Theatre—is named after him. Mayer permitted the university's sports teams to use the MGM lion as their mascot.
• The main theatre at Santa Clara University bears his name.
• Mayer was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1990.
• A street in Laval, Quebec a suburb of Montreal, Quebec holds the name of Louis-B-Mayer.
• The Louis B. Mayer Research Laboratories building at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute opened in 1988.
• Former MGM Studio Lot in Culver City, is now Sony Pictures Studios.

Mayer has been portrayed numerous times in film and television including:

• Mommie Dearest (by Howard Da Silva)
• RKO 281 (by David Suchet)
• De-Lovely (by Peter Polycarpou)
• The Aviator (by Stanley DeSantis)
• The Last Tycoon (by Robert Mitchum)
• Barton Fink (by Michael Lerner as Jack Lipnick)
• Hollywoodland
• Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (by Al Waxman)
• Cats Don't Dance (by George Kennedy as the voice of L.B. Mammoth)
• Harlow (by Jack Kruschen)
• Gable and Lombard (by Allen Garfield)
• The Big Knife
• The Scarlet O'Hara War (by Harold Gould)
• The Three Stooges(2000) (by David Baldwin)

Jacqueline Susann portrayed Mayer in Valley of the Dolls as Cyril H. Bean, referred to by his employees as "The Head".

Mayer has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.