movie mogul

Japanese: movie mogul(英語表記)moviemogul
movie mogul

…Mayer was one of the contributors to the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1927), known as the Academy Awards. He was the prototype of the movie mogul, said to be one of Hollywood's dictators, an ardent supporter of the Republican Party, and legendary for having the highest annual salary in the United States ($250,000) in the 1930s and 1940s. There is a biography of him, The King of Hollywood (1960), written by Bosley Crowther, and it is said that the studio director Pat Brady in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Last Tycoon (1941), played by Robert De Niro in the 1976 film adaptation, was partly based on Mayer. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "movie mogul" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…〈アカデミー賞〉で知られるアカデミー協会の設立(1927)に貢献した一人でもある。〈ムービー・モーグル(ムービー・モーガル)movie mogul(映画の大立者)〉の原型で,〈ハリウッドの独裁者〉の一人といわれ,共和党の熱烈な支持者であり,30年代と40年代には年俸が全米で最高(25万ドル)だったことが語り草になっている。ボズリー・クラウザーによる《ハリウッドの王侯》(1960)という伝記があり,またF.スコット・フィッツジェラルドの小説《ラスト・タイクーン》(1941)の撮影所長パット・ブラディ(1976年に映画化され,ロバート・デ・ニーロが演じた)はメイヤーを部分的にモデルにしたともいわれている。…

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