Irun my house and it's a full-time job running this studio," Edith "Edie" Mayer Goetz said in 1967, settled in her Holmby Hills mansion, the epicenter of Hollywood social life for more than 20 years.
Her father, Louis B. Mayer, had built MGM into the most prestigious studio during Hollywood's golden age. Her sister, Irene, married Gone With the Wind producer and studio exec David O.
Selznick. And Edie's husband, Bill, ran 20th Century Fox and then Universal-International, where he gave Natalie Wood, then 7, her first credited role, in 1946.
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