Metro Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company founded in 1915 in the United States. It was, along with Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation, one of the forerunners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey. [1] Metro Pictures was founded as a film distribution company in February 1915 by a number of "exchange men" with Richard A. Rowland as president, George Grombacher as vice-president and Louis B. Mayer as secretary. [2] It soon also began producing its own films, with Sealed Valley being Metro's first production, which was released on August 2, 1915. [3]
Metro's list of stars during its existence included Mae Murray, Viola Dana, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Emmy Wehlen, Emily Stevens, Lillian Gish, Buster Keaton, Jackie Coogan, Marion Davies, Ramon Novarro, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone. The romantic teams of Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne and Harold Lockwood and May Allison also worked for Metro.
In 1919, the company was purchased by Marcus Loew as a supplier of product for his theater chain. Several years later, in 1924, Loew merged it with his recently acquired Goldwyn Pictures, followed shortly thereafter with another merge with Louis B. Mayer Productions. The resulting entity was named Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925 with Mayer in charge. [4]
# | Considered to be lost. |
Release date | Film [5] | Status/References |
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March 20, 1915 | The Heart of Maryland | Distribution. |
March 29, 1915 | Satan Sanderson | Distribution. |
April 12, 1915 | The Cowboy and the Lady | Distribution. |
April 19, 1915 | The Heart of a Painted Woman | Distribution. |
April 26, 1915 | The High Road | Distribution. |
May 2, 1915 | The Shooting of Dan McGrew | Distribution. |
May 9, 1915 | Cora | Distribution. |
May 24, 1915 | Four Feathers | Distribution. |
May 31, 1915 | Her Own Way | Distribution. |
June 7, 1915 | Fighting Bob | Distribution. |
June 14, 1915 | My Best Girl | Distribution. |
June 21, 1915 | Always in the Way | Distribution. |
June 28, 1915 | The Flaming Sword | Distribution. |
July 5, 1915 | Greater Love Hath No Man | Distribution. |
July 12, 1915 | Marse Covington | Distribution. |
July 19, 1915 | The Right of Way | Distribution. |
July 26, 1915 | The Second in Command | Distribution. |
August 2, 1915 | Sealed Valley | First film produced by Metro [6] |
August 9, 1915 | The Vampire | Distribution. |
August 16, 1915 | A Royal Family | Distribution. |
August 30, 1915 | Her Great Match | |
September 6, 1915 | Destiny | incomplete, 3 reels out of 5 |
September 13, 1915 | The Silent Voice | |
September 15, 1915 | An Enemy to Society | |
September 20, 1915 | The Bigger Man | |
October 4, 1915 | The Song of the Wage Slave | |
October 11, 1915 | Emmy of Stork's Nest | |
October 18, 1915 | The Final Judgment | |
October 25, 1915 | My Madonna | |
November 1, 1915 | Her Reckoning | |
November 8, 1915 | Pennington's Choice | |
November 15, 1915 | The Woman Pays | |
November 22, 1915 | One Million Dollars | |
November 28, 1915 | Barbara Frietchie | |
December 6, 1915 | A Yellow Streak | |
December 13, 1915 | The House of Tears | |
December 20, 1915 | Rosemary | |
December 28, 1915 | Black Fear | |
January 3, 1916 | What Will People Say? | |
January 10, 1916 | The Turmoil | |
January 17, 1916 | Rose of the Alley | |
January 17, 1916 | The Lure of Heart's Desire | |
January 24, 1916 | Her Debt of Honor | |
January 31, 1916 | Man and His Soul | |
February 7, 1916 | The Upstart | |
February 13, 1916 | Dimples | |
February 21, 1916 | The Price of Malice | |
February 21, 1916 | A Corner in Cotton | |
February 21, 1916 | The Red Mouse | |
March 6, 1916 | The Blindness of Love | |
March 12, 1916 | The Soul Market | |
March 13, 1916 | Lovely Mary | |
March 20, 1916 | The Wall Between | incomplete, one reel missing |
March 27, 1916 | Her Great Price | |
April 3, 1916 | The Kiss of Hate | |
April 10, 1916 | The Half Million Bribe | incomplete |
April 16, 1916 | Vanity | |
April 17, 1916 | Playing with Fire | |
April 24, 1916 | The Come-Back | |
May 1, 1916 | The Snowbird | |
May 8, 1916 | A Million a Minute | |
May 15, 1916 | The Spell of the Yukon | |
May 22, 1916 | Notorious Gallagher | |
May 29, 1916 | The Scarlet Woman | |
June 5, 1916 | Dorian's Divorce | |
June 12, 1916 | The Masked Rider | |
June 26, 1916 | The Flower of No Man's Land | |
June 26, 1916 | The Purple Lady | |
July 3, 1916 | The Eternal Question | |
July 10, 1916 | The Quitter | |
July 17, 1916 | The River of Romance | |
July 24, 1916 | The Child of Destiny | |
July 31, 1916 | The Devil at His Elbow | |
August 1, 1916 | God's Half Acre | |
August 20, 1916 | The Weakness of Strength | |
August 21, 1916 | The Pretenders | |
August 28, 1916 | The Upheaval | |
September 4, 1916 | The Light of Happiness | |
September 11, 1916 | Mister 44 | |
September 18, 1916 | The Wheel of the Law | |
September 25, 1916 | The Dawn of Love | |
October 2, 1916 | The Iron Woman | |
October 9, 1916 | Life's Shadows | |
October 16, 1916 | In the Diplomatic Service | |
October 19, 1916 | Romeo and Juliet | |
October 23, 1916 | The Brand of Cowardice | |
October 30, 1916 | The Gates of Eden | |
November 6, 1916 | Extravagance | |
November 13, 1916 | The Wager | |
November 20, 1916 | Big Tremaine | |
November 27, 1916 | The Sunbeam | |
December 4, 1916 | The Black Butterfly | |
December 11, 1916 | The Stolen Triumph | |
December 18, 1916 | The Awakening of Helena Richie | |
December 25, 1916 | Pidgin Island | |
January 6, 1917 | A Wife by Proxy | |
January 14, 1917 | The White Raven | |
January 22, 1917 | Threads of Fate | Fragment |
January 29, 1917 | The End of the Tour | |
February 5, 1917 | Bridges Burned | |
February 12, 1917 | One of Many | |
February 12, 1917 | The Promise | |
February 26, 1917 | The Secret of Eve | |
March 5, 1917 | The Barricade | |
March 12, 1917 | The Mortal Sin | |
March 19, 1917 | His Father's Son | |
March 26, 1917 | The Hidden Children | |
April 2, 1917 | The Waiting Soul | |
April 9, 1917 | The Power of Decision | |
April 18, 1917 | A Magdalene of the Hills | |
April 23, 1917 | God's Law and Man's | |
April 29, 1917 | The Millionaire's Double | |
May 7, 1917 | Sowers and Reapers | |
May 14, 1917 | The Soul of a Magdalen | |
May 21, 1917 | The Beautiful Lie | [7] |
May 27, 1917 | The Call of Her People | |
May 28, 1917 | The Duchess of Doubt | [8] |
June 4, 1917 | Lady Barnacle | [9] |
June 11, 1917 | The Haunted Pajamas | |
June 25, 1917 | Aladdin's Other Lamp | |
July 2, 1917 | Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp | |
July 9, 1917 | The Trail of the Shadow | |
July 16, 1917 | The Hidden Spring | |
July 16, 1917 | The Slacker | [10] |
July 30, 1917 | Miss Robinson Crusoe | |
August 6, 1917 | The Jury of Fate | [11] |
August 13, 1917 | The Girl Without a Soul | Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2018 [12] |
August 27, 1917 | To the Death | [13] |
September 3, 1917 | Under Handicap | |
September 10, 1917 | The Lifted Veil | [14] |
September 17, 1917 | Their Compact | [15] |
September 17, 1917 | A Sleeping Memory | [16] |
September 24, 1917 | The Silence Sellers | [17] |
October 1, 1917 | Paradise Garden | |
October 15, 1917 | A Sleeping Memory | |
October 22, 1917 | More Truth Than Poetry | [18] |
October 29, 1917 | The Adopted Son | [19] |
November 5, 1917 | The Outsider | [20] |
November 8, 1917 | Life's Whirlpool | [21] |
November 12, 1917 | Outwitted | [22] |
November 15, 1917 | Draft 258 | [23] |
November 19, 1917 | The Voice of Conscience | [24] |
November 26, 1917 | The Eternal Mother | [25] |
December 3, 1917 | The Square Deceiver | |
December 10, 1917 | Blue Jeans | [26] |
December 10, 1917 | Alias Mrs. Jessop | [27] |
December 10, 1917 | The Greatest Power | [28] |
December 17, 1917 | An American Widow | [29] |
December 24, 1917 | Red, White and Blue Blood | [30] |
December 31, 1917 | The Avenging Trail | [31] |
January 7, 1918 | Daybreak | [32] |
January 14, 1918 | The Winding Trail | [33] |
January 21, 1918 | The Eyes of Mystery | [34] |
January 27, 1918 | Lest We Forget | |
January 1918 | The Legion of Death | [35] |
January 28, 1918 | Her Boy | [36] |
February 4, 1918 | Under Suspicion | [37] |
February 11, 1918 | Broadway Bill | |
February 17, 1918 | Revelation | [38] |
February 18, 1918 | A Weaver of Dreams | [39] |
February 25, 1918 | Revenge | [40] |
March 4, 1918 | The Shell Game | [41] |
March 11, 1918 | The Brass Check | [42] |
March 18, 1918 | The Claim | [43] |
March 25, 1918 | Breakers Ahead | [44] |
April 1, 1918 | The Landloper | |
April 6, 1918 | Social Hypocrites | [45] |
April 7, 1918 | My Own United States | |
April 15, 1918 | With Neatness and Dispatch | [46] |
April 22, 1918 | Treasure of the Sea | [47] |
April 29, 1918 | Riders of the Night | [48] |
May 6, 1918 | The Trail to Yesterday | Fragment [49] |
May 12, 1918 | Toys of Fate | |
May 13, 1918 | Cyclone Higgins, D.D. | [50] |
May 20, 1918 | The Winning of Beatrice | [51] |
May 25, 1918 | The Million Dollar Dollies | |
May 27, 1918 | Lend Me Your Name | |
June 3, 1918 | To Hell with the Kaiser! | |
June 10, 1918 | Social Quicksands | [52] |
June 17, 1918 | The House of Gold | [53] |
June 24, 1918 | A Man's World | [54] |
June 24, 1918 | The Only Road | [55] |
July 1, 1918 | Opportunity | [56] |
July 8, 1918 | No Man's Land | [57] |
July 15, 1918 | A Successful Adventure | [58] |
July 22, 1918 | The Demon | [59] |
July 29, 1918 | A Pair of Cupids | [60] |
August 5, 1918 | The House of Mirth | [61] |
August 12, 1918 | Flower of the Dusk | [62] |
August 12, 1918 | In Judgement Of | Incomplete [63] |
August 26, 1918 | Boston Blackie's Little Pal | [64] |
September 2, 1918 | The Silent Woman | [65] |
September 9, 1918 | Our Mrs. McChesney | [66] |
September 16, 1918 | Kildare of Storm | [67] |
September 23, 1918 | The Return of Mary | [68] |
September 24, 1918 | Pals First | |
September 30, 1918 | Unexpected Places | [69] |
October 7, 1918 | Secret Strings | [70] |
October 14, 1918 | His Bonded Wife | [71] |
November 25, 1918 | Five Thousand an Hour | [72] |
December 2, 1918 | The Testing of Mildred Vane | [73] |
December 9, 1918 | Hitting the High Spots | [74] |
December 16, 1918 | Sylvia on a Spree | [75] |
December 22, 1918 | Eye for Eye | |
December 23, 1918 | The Poor Rich Man | [76] |
December 30, 1918 | Her Inspiration | [77] |
January 1, 1919 | The Great Victory | [78] |
January 6, 1919 | The Spender | [79] |
January 6, 1919 | The Gold Cure | [80] |
January 19, 1919 | The Great Romance | [81] |
January 20, 1919 | The Divorcee | [82] |
January 27, 1919 | In for Thirty Days | [83] |
February 3, 1919 | Faith | [84] |
February 8, 1919 | Out of the Fog | [85] |
February 10, 1919 | As the Sun Went Down | [86] |
February 17, 1919 | Johnny-on-the-Spot | [87] |
February 23, 1919 | Shadows of Suspicion | [88] |
February 24, 1919 | Peggy Does Her Darndest | [89] |
March 3, 1919 | Satan Junior | incomplete, one reel missing [90] |
March 10, 1919 | Blind Man's Eyes | [91] |
March 17, 1919 | The Way of the Strong | [92] |
March 24, 1919 | That's Good | [93] |
March 31, 1919 | The Parisian Tigress | [94] |
April 1, 1919 | A Man of Honor | [95] |
April 7, 1919 | The Island of Intrigue | [96] |
April 14, 1919 | Blackie's Redemption | [97] |
April 21, 1919 | False Evidence | [98] |
April 28, 1919 | The Amateur Adventuress | May have been released on May 5, 1919. [99] |
April 28, 1919 | After His Own Heart | [100] |
May 4, 1919 | The Red Lantern | [101] |
May 12, 1919 | Castles in the Air | [102] |
May 19, 1919 | The Lion's Den | [103] |
May 26, 1919 | Full of Pep | [104] |
June 2, 1919 | Almost Married | [105] |
June 9, 1919 | Some Bride | [106] |
June 16, 1919 | Fools and Their Money | [107] |
June 23, 1919 | One-Thing-at-a-Time O'Day | [108] |
June 30, 1919 | The Uplifters | [109] |
July 6, 1919 | The Man Who Stayed at Home | [110] |
July 7, 1919 | God's Outlaw | [111] |
July 14, 1919 | In His Brother's Place | [112] |
July 21, 1919 | The Microbe | [113] |
July 28, 1919 | The Belle of the Season | [114] |
August 4, 1919 | Easy To Make Money | [115] |
August 18, 1919 | A Favor to a Friend | [116] |
August 18, 1919 | The Four Flusher | [117] |
September 1, 1919 | The Brat | [118] |
October 1, 1919 | Lombardi, Ltd. | [119] |
October 25, 1919 | Please Get Married | [120] |
November 1, 1919 | Fair and Warmer | [121] |
December 28, 1919 | Should a Woman Tell? | [122] |