This latest foray begins with one showbiz icon with a reconignizable roar. The MGM lion, properly known as Leo, has gone the way of the pixel. MGM has unveiled an all-digital replacement of the ...

By Bill Higgins MGM LEO THE LION - H 2015 This story first appeared in the Aug. 14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. While Zimbabwe’s ...

Leo the lion, the MGM mascot who roared in the credits of countless films, settled at the Fairmount Park site in 1931 after a lengthy career in Hollywood. While his stay was meant to be temporary ...

[See also: Did the MGM Lion Kill Its Trainer?] However, the above-displayed image does not capture either MGM's Leo or the filming of a company logo. This is a manipulated version of a photograph ...

every MGM movie. Of course, I’m talking about Leo the Lion. Originally Goldwyn’s logo, Leo took over as MGM’s onscreen representative (while Louis B. Mayer ran the shop in Culver City ...

when starting an MGM film? Do you still do it now? Please. You do. Now Leo, or, urm, Mr. The Lion, is getting his Tinseltown due, courtesy of a set of handprints in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre.

Almost anyone who has watched an MGM movie or television show has heard the roar of Leo the Lion just before the camera fades into the main event. You’d think that such a Hollywood icon would ...

South Washington Street in downtown Sonora was jammed with people on June 25, 1930, hoping to catch a glimpse of Leo, the Nubian lion famous for ... where he was acquired by MGM.

Slats, born at the Dublin Zoo, was MGM's first lion. He had previously appeared in the logo of the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, where designer Howard Dietz chose the lion as a mascot as a tribute ...

The lion has been a part of MGM’s brand for decades, and Evans’ lions are reportedly descendants of Leo, the most recent lion mascot used by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.