50 films a year, casinos, a bankruptcy and those ruby slippers: How one of Hollywood's original studios has survived 100 ...
"Ars gratia artis" – art for art's sake. Three words in Latin atop a now iconic roaring lion form the motto of one of the longest-running film studios in Hollywood history: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). When it peaked, it reached for the stars, …