11/9/24. I sat here on my bed, all choked up watching this. I was there but not as an MGM movie star. I was there pouring water into their empty or half empty glasses. Oh yes. I had my autograph book tucked inside my pants. YES! I got so many autographs and a lot of advice about 'staying out of pictures,' especially from Eva Gardner. It was a night I'll never forget. I agree with a lot of you when you say there will never be a movie star to take their place. Hooray for Hollywood! ❤🎉😢
How wonderful to see the stars of 1949, especially! What a treasure to watch. If both videos could be restored, and the older one colourized, how great that would be!
A treasure! These stars made the History of motion picture! So relaxing and sweet to look at all of them. And thanks for this jewel video❤️❤️❤️. To be kept and watched over and over. THANKS!
The 1974 event was for the premiere of the movie That's Entertainment, and was held on May 17, 1974. Agnes was still alive but in poor health. She died a month later on April 30.
The control the studio system has over actors and actresses was amazing. The actors and actresses were probably working on movie sets that day but were pulled into this event.
Most were guests that day but the ones in period costume were working and got time out to appear at the lunch. Of course, by 1974 no one was under long term contract to MGM any more, so they came out of nostalgia and tribute.
Thanks for posting. As of Sept. 2017 the only living movie stars from the 1949 anniversary are Claude Jarman Jr. (he turns 83 later this month) and Angela Lansbury (she will be 92 next month).
@@OldHollywood ikr I wish I was born when these stars were at their prime, however there would be problems cuz I'm a poc and people were racist, so yh I want to live then but at the same time no
Hmmm, Bette Davis said he wasn't much good and he didn't care to much about it. He liked being a star. This was from her 1987 interview in England, while promoting his book. I just watched it 2 weeks ago.
I love Gene Kelley, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Shirley Maclaine and Myrna Loy ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Ty for this! Singing in the Rain ☔ Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf Night of the Iguana 🦎 Steel Magnolias and The Best Years of our Lives/Double Wedding (can't decide)
The greatest generation, yes, faults and all. But, onscreen, what they conveyed was genuine, rising above just acting. In 1949, there was still the dream, not yet tarnished by ensuing decades, and never to be recaptured.
THESE were stars. All we have today are personalities ! When someone like a Kardashian (any of them) can get publicity for trash, then we know the CLASS AND STARS in our business are GONE !
Strange that Vera Ellen is nowhere to be seen. She was a big MGM star at this time having just completed "On the Town" with Gene Kelly and about to do "Three Little Words" with Fred Astaire. Was she not invited?
@jackjules7552 She withdrew from the public eye in the late 1960s and 1970s+. No one really knows why. Yes, she lost a baby to SIDS and that is traumatic enough, but she still attended dance classes. Anyway, Frank Sinatra isn't there either. Nor was Leslie Caron or Lena Horne or Lana Turner, Van Johnson, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Jane Powell, Lucille Ball, and Katharine Hepburn, in the 1974 reunion.
TCM did do a month long tribute to MGM either May or June of 2024.
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It's sad. No acknowledgement, and no mention on the Academy Award presentations, either. Maybe next years Academy presentation will do some kind of a tribute.
Trivia: 1949 Gathering: Betty Garrett (in plaid blazer) would later go on to play Edna Babbish on the sitcom "Lavern & Shirley". LB Mayer introduced Eddie Mannix, who was MGM's "fixer". His later wife, Toni, allegedly had an affair with "Superman" star, George Reeves, at the time of his death, putting Eddie in as a "person of interest" in Reeves' death. 1974 Gathering: As of this date, the only people remaining who were on the stage that evening are, George Hamilton, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minelli and Margaret O'Brien. Claude Jarman, Jr. passed on January 12, 2025, at the age of 90.
Poor Buster got roped into doing this silly PR thing even though he hadn't been an MGM star for years, he was a lowly gag man at that point. He and Mayer loathed each other. Buster got the last laugh by getting the biggest applause and with a perfectly timed bit to make the whole thing look ridiculous.
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Thank you for this video.....& all those wonderful stars! Especially great to see Katharine Hepburn in that elegant pant-suit, & seated next to the beautiful Lena Horne, so at least no hateful colour bar with the seating at this event. However.....couldn't help but note the rows...AND ROWS of the "executives". No a female in sight there!
@@HattieMcDanielonaMoon Not really when they were //old//, per se (Garbo was 36 when she retired, Norma was 40 and Joan Crawford was booted out at the grand old age of 40 as well), just when Louis B. Mayer was done with them, plus Garbo was a semirecluse.
@@johnfd0210 I'm not inferring that every White actor or actress was a racist at that time, but you have to get the mindset of the time. It was 1949, and America's views of Blacks were slowly beginning to change, following the end of WWII, when they began to realize Blacks had fought just as valiantly for their country as whites and they deserved some respect. Just 10 years earlier, Black actors weren't even allowed to even sit next to white actors at gala functions in many parts of this country, especially in the South, when Segregation was the law of the land. Lena Horne was "accepted" because she refused to accept the stereotypical roles that was assigned to Black performers of her day, and perhaps because she was a light-skinned, attractive black woman. Nearly10 years earlier, Hattie McDaniel, who was a very darker-skinned, obese Black woman, wasn't even allowed to sit next to her White colleagues. Of course, later on in her career, her peers gradually began to accept Mc Daniel just as they accepted Lena Horne, even though there were still some racial tensions in the room, but that was gradually beginning to change.
If the luncheon had been held in a restaurant, ballroom or other public venue, Lena wouldn't have even been allowed to enter from the front door. Fortunately, we've come a long way since those days.
You sound like a jealous hater. Too bad you can't enjoy them and all the entertainment they've given us. If it upsets you so......don't watch. Your negativity would never survive in this business ! GO away and read your Bible!
MGM will rise again with more stars than there are in the heavens after the media giants get trust busted and the old Studio System returns taking Hollywood back to these days.
On one level, I would love to see it. On many others, the SAG-AFTRA union will make darn sure it never happens again because actors want to keep their independence. They felt/feel that the studio system was entertainment's version of baseball's infamous "reserve clause".
@@jasonstegallco.960 SAG-AFTRA can be union busted and rebuilt. There are a lot stars out there like the Kardashians and Rachel Zegler who need their lives controlled by the studios. Plus there's a little something called free agency which will result in studios trying to outbid each other for the stars' services.
Looking at this restored film is interesting and rather sad. Where are the talented stars nowadays? Streep, Streisand, Redford, Eastwood, Midler, Eddie Murphy Billy Dee Williams, Shirley McClain, etc. no offense, but the aforementioned stars are getting up there in years. Who do we have that are upcoming stars that currently have made an impact in movies? Times have changed, and as we see old Hollywood faces, only one black actress appeared, Ms. Leana Horne. Besides that, where are the contemporary upcoming stars the new top actors; black, white, Asian, and Indian of today? Maybe it's just me, and I am starting to sound like my parents who lived in that era? But think about it? Jack,Lemon, Tony Curtis, even talented Directors Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, etc., gone. Spielberg, James Cameron, George Lucas are getting up there in years, who is standing out nowadays as impressive making a mark in film history today? Where is Hollywood headed when they all pass away? Maybe what I am saying is a wake up call or maybe I am just so "square" and getting old...
The actors and actresses today can’t even come close to what they were years ago!!! Not even close!!! God bless the greatest generation!!!!
They’ll never and I mean never get stars like this anymore!
They willNEVER and I mean NEvEER find actors and actresses like that any more!
11/9/24. I sat here on my bed, all choked up watching this. I was there but not as an MGM movie star. I was there pouring water into their empty or half empty glasses. Oh yes. I had my autograph book tucked inside my pants. YES! I got so many autographs and a lot of advice about 'staying out of pictures,' especially from Eva Gardner. It was a night I'll never forget. I agree with a lot of you when you say there will never be a movie star to take their place. Hooray for Hollywood! ❤🎉😢
Wow! Now that is cool!!
Wow, imagine the photos you’d have if only there were cell phones back then ❤️
How wonderful to see the stars of 1949, especially! What a treasure to watch. If both videos could be restored, and the older one colourized, how great that would be!
It's hard to believe that all these famous celebrities worked at the same time for the same employer. What an amazing group of people!
Thanks! A reminder when elegance and class prevailed!
Speaking of elegance and class, Vera Ellen is nowhere to be seen here. She was one of MGM's big dancing stars at MGM at this time.
O my goodness thanks for sharing this these were back in my days when I was in my 40s I’am now 82 years wow thank i remember this
A treasure! These stars made the History of motion picture! So relaxing and sweet to look at all of them. And thanks for this jewel video❤️❤️❤️. To be kept and watched over and over. THANKS!
They blossomed during the HAYES CODE
1933-1966
Thanks for your reply@@kathleenking47
This were the STARS then .There will NEVER and I mean NEVER STARS like that anymore!
Same year Agnes Moorhead passed away in 1974. I saw her in 1949 for 25 anniversary MGM banquet. How cool.
The 1974 event was for the premiere of the movie That's Entertainment, and was held on May 17, 1974. Agnes was still alive but in poor health. She died a month later on April 30.
So happy and so sad at the same time!
That’s what you would call entertainment. I Loved them and quilt” Always Will “. They don’t make movies like they did when we had those STARS anymore!
The control the studio system has over actors and actresses was amazing. The actors and actresses were probably working on movie sets that day but were pulled into this event.
Most were guests that day but the ones in period costume were working and got time out to appear at the lunch. Of course, by 1974 no one was under long term contract to MGM any more, so they came out of nostalgia and tribute.
Truly, a golden era in movie making and entertainment never equaled again.
Thanks for posting.
As of Sept. 2017 the only living movie stars from the 1949 anniversary are Claude Jarman Jr. (he turns 83 later this month) and Angela Lansbury (she will be 92 next month).
Thank you for sharing that! So much time has passed!
@@OldHollywood ikr I wish I was born when these stars were at their prime, however there would be problems cuz I'm a poc and people were racist, so yh I want to live then but at the same time no
We lost our beloved Angela 😢
Not true, we still have June Lockhart who started at MGM
They all did acting what you would really call acting and entertainment!
So so enjoyed every moment watching this video .congratulations and thank you for your hard work .
What a gem. Loved it all. Thank you
Real actors & actresses.
Loved this
Only horrible thing about much if it
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This is sooooo Wondrous!!! Aww, miss these beautiful people!!!
Speaking of beautiful people, Vera Ellen is nowhere to be seen here. And she was one of MGM's big stars at this time!
Errol Flynn was the best actor during those years, since 1935 until 1959,.
Hmmm, Bette Davis said he wasn't much good and he didn't care to much about it. He liked being a star. This was from her 1987 interview in England, while promoting his book. I just watched it 2 weeks ago.
Bette Davis admitted years later that Errol Flynn was a good actor. 👍
Yes there was something special about the 40s and 50s the movies the actors
Nothing like that anymore
Errol Flynn mistiming his entrance lol amazing stars and I loved Mario Lanza as a child, I used to watch his movies.
I think that George Murphy accidentally skipped over him when reading the names. To that point, they had been alphabetical.
you remember mario lanza when he was a little kid?
@@-elchoya9832 😆 no I loved his movies when I was a little kid. Mario Lanza, Danny Kaye and Deanna Durbin movies
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2:30 “Mr SpEnCEr TRaCeY” 😂
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You can say that again... There won't be any more like this before or later..Every time I hear Liza Minnelli sing I hear her mom Judy
You can say that again... There won't be any more like this before or later..Every time I hear Liza Minnelli sing I hear her mom Judy
I love Gene Kelley, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor,
Ava Gardner, Shirley Maclaine and Myrna Loy ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Ty for this! Singing in the Rain ☔
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf Night of the Iguana 🦎
Steel Magnolias and The Best Years of our Lives/Double Wedding (can't decide)
Ava Gardner is from my home state of NC
Those were stars and talent!♥ RIP🕊 👏👏👏👏👏
The greatest generation, yes, faults and all. But, onscreen, what they conveyed was genuine, rising above just acting. In 1949, there was still the dream, not yet tarnished by ensuing decades, and never to be recaptured.
THESE were stars. All we have today are personalities ! When someone like a Kardashian (any of them) can get publicity for trash, then we know the CLASS AND STARS in our business are GONE !
Che emozione per Mario Lanza questa cena tra i grandi di Hollywood! Lui era l'astro nascente e per una volta la moglie appiccicosa è rimasta a casa!!
2024 will be so cool!
This year marks MGM's 100th anniversary.
It wasnt
Errol Flynn came in with Greer Garson so he just walked in with her. He was a big big star
he was making THAT FORSYTHE WOMAN 1949 with her.would later make KIM 1950 for M.G.M,but was mainly a WARNER BROTHERS star.
And a bigger alcoholic and died in 59
Strange that Vera Ellen is nowhere to be seen. She was a big MGM star at this time having just completed "On the Town" with Gene Kelly and about to do "Three Little Words" with Fred Astaire. Was she not invited?
@jackjules7552 She withdrew from the public eye in the late 1960s and 1970s+. No one really knows why. Yes, she lost a baby to SIDS and that is traumatic enough, but she still attended dance classes. Anyway, Frank Sinatra isn't there either. Nor was Leslie Caron or Lena Horne or Lana Turner, Van Johnson, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Jane Powell, Lucille Ball, and Katharine Hepburn, in the 1974 reunion.
@@countfosco1TY for the info I never knew that I wonder why they didn't show up
Sinatra was there; I bet he was checking out Ava Gardner sitting next to Clark Gable!
So amazing.
To paraphrase a line from the film classic,"Sunset Boulevard: " You used to be big. I'm still big. It's the movies that got small."
Love Buster Keaton at 5:11
No Mickey Rooney at either event? He and Judy kept MGM afloat many years.
"Stars" don't last anymore like they did then. Except for a very few, they have a few good years and then they're done and forgotten.
Yeah thats because they were under contract. Contracts (and stars) disappeared after the studio system was dismantled
No celebrations in this year (2024) even though it's the 100 anniversary of MGM
Bummer it's because we don't have any of those stars anymore and MGM doesn't exist anymore only in name
TCM did do a month long tribute to MGM either May or June of 2024.
It's sad. No acknowledgement, and no mention on the Academy Award presentations, either. Maybe next years Academy presentation will do some kind of a tribute.
That was amazing. I remembered all of these great stars.
Ill be surprised, if NBC lasts to its 100th anniversary..in 2027
So grand!
Everyone is eating the same dish....it was some kinda chicken dinner 🥣
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Trivia:
1949 Gathering: Betty Garrett (in plaid blazer) would later go on to play Edna Babbish on the sitcom "Lavern & Shirley".
LB Mayer introduced Eddie Mannix, who was MGM's "fixer". His later wife, Toni, allegedly had an affair with "Superman" star, George Reeves, at the time of his death, putting Eddie in as a "person of interest" in Reeves' death.
1974 Gathering: As of this date, the only people remaining who were on the stage that evening are, George Hamilton, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minelli and Margaret O'Brien. Claude Jarman, Jr. passed on January 12, 2025, at the age of 90.
I didn't see Elizabeth Taylor...she was a big MGM star who started as a child actress in Lassie.
She’s was there wearing a blue dress.
She was on location doing Ivanhoe with Robert Taylor, another absentee 😊
She was presented just before Keenan Wynn (who had been within the audience) during the 1974 reunion.
Sensational!!
Interesting factoid: Frank Morgan died later that year in 1949, but...Claude Jarman, Jr. is STILL ALIVE (the only one from 1949).
Margaret O'Brien, still alive in 2025 should also have been presented in 1949.
Poor Buster got roped into doing this silly PR thing even though he hadn't been an MGM star for years, he was a lowly gag man at that point. He and Mayer loathed each other. Buster got the last laugh by getting the biggest applause and with a perfectly timed bit to make the whole thing look ridiculous.
claude jarman jr only one still living dec 2023 89
Claude 89 and Margaret O'Brien 87 January 2024.
Isn't Russ Tamblyn still alive?
Yes..Mr.Tamblyn is still with us.
@@bbbrown3408 Claude now 91.
I believe Claude Jarman, Jr., Margaret O'Brien, and Liza Minnelli are the only survivors out of that group of legendary movie stars.
Yes just those three. Zsa Zsa Gabor who died in 2016 aged 99, remains the longest-lived of all these stars.
Theresa Wright is still alive isn't she and Clint Eastwood is 94 Dick Van Dyke is 98..Russ Tamblyn and Shirley McLaine is still with us
@@garycarpenter6433 Teresa died in 2005.
@@Garsons-oq4lh Oh she did.. bummer TY for the info kind friend
GEORGE HAMILTON aged 84 AS OF APRIL 2024
Clint Eastwood is 94
Why no Hattie McDonald in 1949, but yet there was a Lena Horne?
These are MGM contract players; she (Miss McDaniel) did freelance work.
and the great grandson of lassie!
Errol Flynn waa the best actor of his generation, and no mention at all to his presence in that event. I do not understand. Why?
Notice Judy isn't even eating?
Magic time
Errol Flynn was not even mentioned 😅
Who was the lady that had a cane, I couldn't understand them when her name was announced
Phyllis Kirk.
I know that 3 of them are still alive.
I prefer the dresses from 1940 .
Done in 1974, as Ginger is older here, born in 1911
That platinum hair til the end
Could hardly understand Liza in 1974 announcements.
I agree. They should of had hand held microphones.
Wow
No Vivien Leigh?? Must have called in sick for the cattle call
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Why is some of them wearing what seems to be period costume?
Because some of them are still in costume for the movies they were filming that day.
THE TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS (Kathryn Grayson, Mario Lanza)
THAT FORSYTE WOMAN (Greer Garson Janet Leigh)
MADAME BOVARY (Jennifer Jones, Alf Keijin)
Wonder why he didn't introduce Errol Flynn. That's unacceptable
Thank you for this video.....& all those wonderful stars! Especially great to see Katharine Hepburn in that elegant pant-suit, & seated next to the beautiful Lena Horne, so at least no hateful colour bar with the seating at this event. However.....couldn't help but note the rows...AND ROWS of the "executives". No a female in sight there!
I know Errol Flynn was with Warner Bros, but he was still a big star. Why not introduce him?
You answered your own question
2024?
The Gabor sisters? How did they ever get contracts
Surprise attendant of Katherine Hepburn
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Who's that cute young man at 5:12?
To @delavalmilker; that is Claude Jarman Jr., who is still alive at 89, and should he make it to September 27, 2024 he will be 90.
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was lana turner there.frank morgan and wallace beery would die in 1949 and 1950 respectively
morgan in 1950,beery in 1949
I'm wondering where are Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, sure they didn't work for MGM in 1949 but they literally made MGM rich
@@stupidahyan5721 The studio tossed them out when the got old.
@@HattieMcDanielonaMoon
Not really when they were //old//, per se (Garbo was 36 when she retired, Norma was 40 and Joan Crawford was booted out at the grand old age of 40 as well), just when Louis B. Mayer was done with them, plus Garbo was a semirecluse.
@@stupidahyan5721 and Bette Davis. The best of them all
Lena Horne was the only person of color at the table, and she didn't seem too happy.
She and Katharine Hepburn seem to be having an animated talk at 3:23.
@@johnfd0210 I'm not inferring that every White actor or actress was a racist at that time, but you have to get the mindset of the time.
It was 1949, and America's views of Blacks were slowly beginning to change, following the end of WWII, when they began to realize Blacks had fought just as valiantly for their country as whites and they deserved some respect.
Just 10 years earlier, Black actors weren't even allowed to even sit next to white actors at gala functions in many parts of this country, especially in the South, when Segregation was the law of the land. Lena Horne was "accepted" because she refused to accept the stereotypical roles that was assigned to Black performers of her day, and perhaps because she was a light-skinned, attractive black woman.
Nearly10 years earlier, Hattie McDaniel, who was a very darker-skinned, obese Black woman, wasn't even allowed to sit next to her White colleagues. Of course, later on in her career, her peers gradually began to accept Mc Daniel just as they accepted Lena Horne, even though there were still some racial tensions in the room, but that was gradually beginning to change.
If the luncheon had been held in a restaurant, ballroom or other public venue, Lena wouldn't have even been allowed to enter from the front door. Fortunately, we've come a long way since those days.
All those big egos together must be a difficult task to seat them with the right partner.
They were seated more or less alphabetically
Why must you be so nasty 🥵why not just enjoy the video ?
You sound like a jealous hater. Too bad you can't enjoy them and all the entertainment they've given us. If it upsets you so......don't watch. Your negativity would never survive in this business ! GO away and read your Bible!
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@ME-bl3xg Bite your tongue! Vivien Leigh was and Debbie Reynolds (here).
So were the Gabor's
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MGM will rise again with more stars than there are in the heavens after the media giants get trust busted and the old Studio System returns taking Hollywood back to these days.
No, it won't.
@@eblackadder3 Oh yes it will.
On one level, I would love to see it.
On many others, the SAG-AFTRA union will make darn sure it never happens again because actors want to keep their independence.
They felt/feel that the studio system was entertainment's version of baseball's infamous "reserve clause".
@@jasonstegallco.960 SAG-AFTRA can be union busted and rebuilt. There are a lot stars out there like the Kardashians and Rachel Zegler who need their lives controlled by the studios. Plus there's a little something called free agency which will result in studios trying to outbid each other for the stars' services.
What a God Awful dinner. Terrible. 8:48
Yawn......
Looking at this restored film is interesting and rather sad. Where are the talented stars nowadays? Streep, Streisand, Redford, Eastwood, Midler, Eddie Murphy Billy Dee Williams, Shirley McClain, etc. no offense, but the aforementioned stars are getting up there in years. Who do we have that are upcoming stars that currently have made an impact in movies? Times have changed, and as we see old Hollywood faces, only one black actress appeared, Ms. Leana Horne. Besides that, where are the contemporary upcoming stars the new top actors; black, white, Asian, and Indian of today? Maybe it's just me, and I am starting to sound like my parents who lived in that era? But think about it? Jack,Lemon, Tony Curtis, even talented Directors Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, etc., gone. Spielberg, James Cameron, George Lucas are getting up there in years, who is standing out nowadays as impressive making a mark in film history today? Where is Hollywood headed when they all pass away? Maybe what I am saying is a wake up call or maybe I am just so "square" and getting old...
they introduced the gal at 5;35 as vivien leigh?? no way
I think it's Janet Leigh