MGM Your Lucky Star, 1930 YOUR LUCKY STAR    MGM GREETINGS fro LEO of METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER -- and from Your LUCKY STARS OF M-G-M Marion Davies Greta Garbo Joan Crawford William Haines Norma Shearer John Gilbert Ramon Novarro Lawrence Tibbett Marie Dressler Polly Moran Buster Keaton Grace Moore Here he comes! The King of all Entertainers! Leo now brings you his new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Productions. Each year it is Leo who sets the high-quality mark in pictures with his "Big Parades", "Ben-Hurs", Broadway Melodies", "Anna Christies", "Caught Shorts", "The Divorcees", "The Big Houses", "Hollywood Revues" and many others. A new season of motion pictures dawns and M-G-M as usual has the greatest hits of all. Look at the stars and productions awaiting you! COMING TO AMAZE THE PICTURE WORLD Here is the TALKING SCREEN's greatest achievement! The epic of adventure, the thrilling romance which Trader Horn made world-famous is now a mighty speaking drama. The Ivory Coast of Africa, the Jungles, the white beauty Goddess of the Blacks, all the thrills of the book, are ready for a waiting world! Photographed in Africa. One year in production! A W.S. VAN DYKE production TRADER HORN A Talking Picture of THE BOOK by Ethelreda Lewis that thrilled the world! with HARRY CAREY DUNCAN RENALDO EDWINA BOOTH The Wild Elephants Are Coming! A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE Trader Horn was released in 1931. The Biggest Picture Ever Made THE MARCH OF TIME WORLD-FAMOUS NAMES IN A CAST TO FILL A BOOK! Weber & Fields, William Collier, Sr., William Collier, Jr., Fay Templeton, Barney Fagan, Marie Dressler, De Wolfe Hopper, Louis Mann, Albertina Rasch Ballet, the Dodge Sisters, Ramon Novarro, Betty Healy, Gus Shy, Carlotta King, Clyde Cook, Cliff Edwards, Josephine Sabel, Benny Rubin, Polly Rubin, Polly Moran, Karl Dane. In addition to many other M-G-M stars. Still proving its claim as the Leader of All, M-G-M brings you a breath-taking entertainment, entirely different from anything that has gone before. A Giant Screen Carnival, tuneful, thrilling, spectacular, star-studded! An event of the screen! Charles Reisner, director. A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE Cecil B. DeMille's greatest drama MADAM SATAN Nothing thus far of the Talking Screen to approach the wonders, the beauty, the spectacle, the thrills of Cecil B. DeMill's mighty entertainment. A miracle picture! Music by Jack King, Herbert Stothart Lyrics by Clifford Grey, Elsie Janis Kay Johnson Reginald Denny Lillian Roth Roland Young Ilka Chase Tyler Brooke Julianne Johnston Martha Sleeper Mary McAllister Abe Lyman's Band Story by JEANIE MacPHERSON A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE The March of Time was abandoned in mid-production when there was a glut of musicals being released and the public was not clamoring to see them anymore. Several of the musical numbers were inserted into later short musical films or MGM features. The Best News of All -- GOOD NEWS the Musical Comedy you've waited for! Imagine! Here it is! The show that run a year on Broadway and a hit everywhere! What songs! What fun! With many of the original Schwab and Mandel case. Keep your ears and eyes open for a treat! with Bessie Love, Mary Lawlor, Cliff Edwards, Stanley Smith, Lola Lane, Gus Shy, Dorothy McNulty. Directey by Edgar MacGregor, Nick Grinde Scenario by Frances Marion "The Varsity Drag" is now on the screen Yes! DE SYLVA, BROWN and HENDERSON music A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE  BILLY THE KID The True Life Story of a Western Bad Man A PICTURE BASED ON THE NOVEL "The Saga of Billy the Kid" by Walter Noble Burns The one big, stirring outdoor story of the Great West. Based actually on the real life of a notorious "bad man." King Vidor, has created a masterpiece of thrills. Laurence Stallings, author of "Big Parade," "What Price Glory," "the Cock-Eyed World" wrote the dialog. JOHN MACK BROWN Wallace Beery     Karl Dane     Lucille Powers A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE MARION DAVIES THE FIVE O'CLOCK GIRL Fun, frolic and songs and romance in Marion's peppiest picture, with Aileen Pringle, Charles King, Polly Moran. America roared at the stage play by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson. Now it's a Talking picture, and you'll love Marion as the mannequin who makes believe she's an heiress. Directed by Alfred Green. Kalmar and Ruby's swellest music. ROSALIE A treat! The celebrated Ziegfeld musical stage success by William Anthony McGuire and Guy Bolton. Marion, as Princess of a mythical kingdom, meets an American trans-Atlantic flier. He's bashful, but she's not! The result is grand! Music by George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg. Lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse and Ira Gershwin. Director Robt. Z. Leonard She's Never Serious! A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE GRETA GARBO TALKS! And the World Listens-- RED DUST The most unusual part she has ever played! On a Chinese rubber plantation -- her past in Paris forgotten -- gorgeous Greta Garbo gives the talking screen a performance such as you've never witnessed. This stage play by Wilson Collison has the power of "Sadie Thompson". It's going to be one of the year's greatest! A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE Both THE FIVE O'CLOCK GIRL and ROSALIE were started, but never finished or released. ROSALIE was eventually filmed starring Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell in 1937.  RED DUST was eventually made in 1932 with Jean Harlow as the female star. He's Fresh! WILLIAM HAINES in the big stage hit REMOTE CONTROL A rollicking, romantic melodrama! Broadway gasped at the stage play by Clyde North, Albert C. Fuller, and Jack T. Nelson. The Talking picture, with Mary Doran, Charles, King, Polly Moran, J.C. Nugent, Edward Nugent, takes you into a radio broadcasting room with Bill Haines as announcer! Just his style! Bill unknowingly thwarts the Ghost Gang operating by radio. And of course there's a girl in the story. She's his! Mal St. Clair, Director. A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE NORMA SHEARER Beautiful First Lasy of the Talking Screen Her popularity has grown even greater than ever since her glorious speaking voice was heard. In "The Divorcee" and in "Let Us Be Gay" Norma Shearer gave her public never-to-be-forgotten pictures. When Norma Shearer's name is up in electric lights the wise picture-goer know there's a real talkie in store. A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE JOAN CRAWFORD The "Untamed" Beauty GREAT DAY Stunning Joan as a Southern heiress, wild and wonderful, ina grand tomance, bases on the great stage success by William Carey Duncan, John Wells, Vincent youmans. Directed by Harry Pollard.  The breaking of the Mississippi levee is just one thrill of many. And what songs! "Great Day," "More Than You Know," "Without A Song," "Happy Because I'm in Love" -- all by Vincent Youmans. John Mack Bron, Cliff Edwards, Lucien Littlefield in the cast! HER FORTUNE Imagine a pert telephone girl winning a fortune in a lottery and off to Palm Beach! Joan never played a more romantically thrilling role in all her glorious screen career. And when she gets into action down where the music and wine flow -- keep your eye on Joan! Story by James Montgomery.METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES  CHESTER MORRIS     WALLACE BEERY     LEILA HYAMS     ROBERT MONTGOMERY METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES THE BIG HOUSE One of the great pictures of all time. Its honesy, its true-to-life characters, its gripping drama, its tender love story have combined to make it the year's outstanding motion picture. With Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Leila Hyams, George F Marion, J.C. Nugent. Directed by George Hill. THE TALK OF THE TALKIES! A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER -- Cosmopolitan Production "Great Day" definitely went into pre-production. Neither it or "Her Fortune" was ever released. The Voice of the Great Lover RAMON NOVARRO CALL OF THE FLESH A truly great picture. M-G-M is proud to present this amazing drama in which Novarro does his best work. In all preliminary tryout showings "The Singer of Seville" has created an audience sensation. Story by Dorothy Farnum Dialogue by John Colton Directed by Charles Brabin with DOROTHY JORDAN     RENEE ADOREE ERNEST TORRENCE     NANCE O'NEIL SONG OF INDIA Achmed Abdullah's romance is a perfect role for another picture in which handsom Ramon Novarro will appear! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES  JOHN GILBERT WAY FOR A SAILOR John Gilbert in a dramatic down-to-earth yarn with adaptation and dialogue by Laurence Stallings, the author of Gilbert's great triumph, "The Big Parade" and by W. L. River and Charles MacArthur. From Albert Richard Wetjen's book. Jim Tully, noted soldier of fortune and author, is in the big cast, as well asWallace Beery, Polly Moran, Leila Hyams, Doris Lloyd. Sam Wood is director. Son of India (not Song) was released in 1931. GRACE MOORE the beautiful new star in a picture based on the life of JENNY LIND The Metropolitan Opera which gave Lawrence Tibbett to the screen now brings you its greatest feminine celebrity Grace Moore also famed as star of the music Box Revue. Glorious to gaze apon! Marvelous to hear! Grace Moore is to be the new sensation of the screen. And her first picture based on thelife of "Jenny Lind" with its romantic tale of love gives Miss Moore a glamorous introduction to you. In the cast are Reginald Denny, George F. Marion, Jobyna Howland. In this drama of thrills and heart-throbs a new star is born. Director, Signey Franklin. Dialogue by John Meehan. Scenario by Hans Kraly and Claudine West. Original music by Herbert Stothart, Arthur Freed and Harry Woods. This is one of four Cosmopolitan Productions to be shown in coming months. A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE The Star with the "Come Hither" Voice -- Lawrence TIBBETT GRACE MOORE NEW MOON It is as though this romantic play of New Orleans had been written especially for the great singer, Lawrence Tibbett. When he sings "Lover Come Back To Me" it will be a screen event! Grace Moore, beautiful operatic and musical comedy celebrity, co-stars in this gala talking picture of the Oscar Hammerstein 2nd-Schwab-Mandel_romberg international success! Jack Conway, director. Dialogue by Charles MacArthur. Adaptation by Sylvia Thalberg and Frank Butler. A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE JENNY LIND was eventually directed by Arthur Robison in 1931. Reginald Denny, George F. Marion, and Jobyna Howland were not in the cast when filmed. Those Laughing "Caught Short" Girls -- Marie DRESSLER Polly MORAN in RAZZLE-DAZZLE Everybody's still shrieking with laughter over "Caught Short." Their new one is even funnier. Don't miss a Dressler-Moran comedy! BUSTER KEATON The "Surprise Star" of Talkies In "Free and Easy" and "Forward March" he revealed a thousand new talents of song, dance and mimicry. Watch for some new Keaton capers! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES An Original Treatment of Youth's Romantic Problems DANCE FOOLS DANCE What every Young Couple in Love should know! Here's the age-old problem in a drama as gripping as anything you've ever encountered on the screen or on the stage! The boy and girl of "Dance Fools Dance" solve their difficulties in a unique and daring way, and pass through the danger zone to happiness. THOSE THREE FRENCH GIRLS Charmaine, Diane and Madelon With song and merriment is told the adventure of the three couples en route to Paris, chased by millionaire guardians, threatened by the oh-so-excited! gendarmes, always on the move. A laugh-a-minute, song-filled cyclonic comedy! By Dale Van Every and Arthur Freed. "Forward March" was released as Doughboys (1930). Dance Fools Dance (1931) starred Joan Crawford. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES REMEMBER THESE SONGS? "I'm Falling In Love With Some One" "Sweet Mystery of Life"     "Italian Street Song" VICTOR HERBERT'S NAUGHTY MARIETTA By RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG Nothing could be more perfect for the Talking, Singing screen than this famous say-it-with-music romance of colorful New Orleans in the dangerous days when France ruled there. An out-law pirate (good-looking too) and a strong-willed French lass (Naughty Marietta!) go through a dashing, thrill-packed love duel. It's full of gayety and go, with Victor Herbert's best songs. Something to watch for! A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE BETH BROWN'S widely read BOOK OF CIRCUS LIFE BALLYHOO There have been circus pictures before, but never has the "behind-the-scenes" of circus life been exposed so frankly, so realistically, so thrillingly as in "Ballyhoo." Beth Brown told it all in a novel that reached thousands of excited readers. Now Metro-Godwyn-Mayer has been privileged to bring this romance of the "Big Top" to you. Kathleen Norris' best-selling novel THE PASSION FLOWER M-G-M which brings audiences the latest and best in novels is making it into a soul-stirring Talkie. An heiress gives up wealth, social position for a husband's true love. But when the husband meets his "passion flower" her sacrifice seems wasted. Then a gripping climax! You'll love this one! Adaptation and dialogue by Martin FLavin. Director, William C. de Mille. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES Naughty Marietta was eventually filmed in 1935 and starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. "Ballyhoo" was never filmed. LOVE IN THE ROUGH Laughs and Music RObert Montgomery, Dorothy Jordan, Benny Rubin and a flock of funsters in a rousing film treat based on the play "Spring Fever." Wait 'till you hear: "Go Home and Tell Your Mother," "One More Waltz" and other happy hits by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields. Directed by Charles Riesner (sic) with made "Caught Short" The true story of a woman who lived, loved and suffered on the Western Front WAR NURSE Now it has been told! The woman's side of the World War! The big story -- hitherto only whispered -- of the heroism, the romances, the passions of beauties under hell-fire! An anonymous woman novelist has dared to write the whole story and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the one to give it to you in a masterful talking picture! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES WILLARD MACK'S 1001 Thriller of the MEN OF THE NORTH A handsome, reckless payroll robber of the lawless north, an aristocratic white girl and a fair squaw of the north woods are the central figures. And then -- the relentless Northwest Mounted! with Gilbert Roland, Barbara Leonard, Arnold Korff Directed by Hal Roach TAMPICO the drama of the Oil Fields by Joseph Hergeshiemer and Bartlett Cormack The romance of an oil baron in Mexico. He is the strong master of destinies and human souls. String -- until a beautiful woman without principles crumbles his kingdom. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES "Tampico" was never filmed.   WINSTON CHURCHILL'S Soul-searing love drama of Civil War days THE CRISIS Look forward to one of the most dramatic productions of all your picture-going days! The throbbing love story of the Southern girl and the Northern boy as told in Winston Churchill's immortal novel of Civil War days is to be one of thethings to watch for on the talking screen. The Epic of Race Tracks by Gerald Beaumont DIXIE, THE DARK HORSE The colorful drama of the Old South when horse racing, the sport of kings quickened the pulses of fair ladies and sporting gentlemen. It's a thriller. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES THE BOOK they're all talking about! THE DARK STAR One of the tenerest love stories told in our time. The girl without a lover, suddenly whirled into a dramatic romance with a hero of her dreams! In the great case, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Robert Montgomery. Director, George Hill. The GREAT MEADOW Elizabeth Madox Roberts' novel is in its 100,000th copy! There has appeared on the horizon of the book world a new romantic novel that is holding America spell-bound. A tale of frontier days, of a girl who braved Indians and unknown dangers! A story out of the bed-rock of America, out of its struggles, sacrifices and glories. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES "The Crisis" was never filmed. Western novelist Winston Churchill the novelist was not the same person as Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "Dixie, the Dark Horse" was never filmed. "The Dark Star" was never filmed. AT LAST it's coming to the TALKIES! THE MERRY WIDOW Great news! "The Merry Widow" on the Talking, Singing screen with FRANZ LEHAR'S intoxicating soul-music! A glamorous, breath-taking film based on the most beloved romantic operetta of all time. Watch for the celebrated stars who will bring to you "The Merry Widow" waltz and all the grand delights of this famous masterpiece. Jacob Wassermann Europe's most gifted writer of soul themes brings you The WORLD'S ILLUSION What did she seek this beautiful dancer, possessed of every wealth and luxury, adored by men? A burning, unquenchable restlessness in her soul sent her across the face of Europe into strange places and forbidden experiences! A great modern novel, best-seller on two continents, yields its poerful story to the screen! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES Announcing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's unique TALKING DOG PICTURES DOGVILLE COMEDIES Believe it or not they talk! You'll be amazed at these clever dog actors and actresses in a series of riotously funny comedies with real plots! Watch for the Dogville Comedies everyone is talking about! StanLAUREL Oliver HARDY THOSE FUNNY FELLOWS Without equals on the screen for laughs! They're giving thousands of picture goers thousands of laughs. Get your share! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES The Merry Widow was not filmed until 1934, and it starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. "The World's Illusion" was never filmed. Our Gang You can't be blue when these rascals come to town! Wheezer, Farina and all the rest put the you into life! Never miss an Our Gang comedy. They're always good! CHARLIE CHASE (sic) Never a dull moment when Charlie's on the screen! He's an earful of cheerful entertainment. He's got some new funnier-than-ever ideas up his sleeve. He's a scream! Hal Roach's THE BOY FRIENDS Something brand new in comedies! Hal Roach presents a group of flaming flappers and handsome youngsters in a raft of fun! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES "GEMS OF M-G-M"     "COPY" "THE ROUNDERS"     "SONG WRITER'S REVUE" 4 Tabloid Film Treats in M-G-M's NOVELTY GROUP Far from the beaten track are these little gems of entertainment! They feature stars you like in distinctive tabloid attractions, musical and dramatic! COLORTONE REVUES Music! Fun! Stars! Their popularity is so nationwide that M-G-M is bringin you more of these gay, happy song and dance revues, entirely in color! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES HEARST METROTONE NEWS Tell your theatre manager you want the best talking newsreel! By its past record of getting the livest news on the screen, M-G-M's Hearst Metrotone News has become first among newsreels! AROUND THE WORLD WITH BURTON HOLMES The great traveller himself! More thrilling than fiction are his talking travel pictures. He brings you the wonders of the world! FLIP THE FROG "Ub" Iwerks, noted cartoonist, is making these fun films himself! They are merrier and cleverer and more tuneful than any cartoon comedies you have yet seen! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES THE WORLD'S GREATEST PICTURE STUDIOS Acres of amazing miracle studios! Thousands of skilled breators! Never-ending construction of the newest and best for the production of great Talking Pictures! That is why Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is the leader of the picture world! YOUR LUCKY STAR     MGM This booklet was mailed out to fans who requested star photos from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Last Modified January 28, 2023.