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]
Release date | Film[5] | Status/References |
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March 20, 1915 | The Heart of Maryland | Distribution. lost film |
March 29, 1915 | Satan Sanderson | Distribution. lost film |
April 12, 1915 | The Cowboy and the Lady | Distribution. lost film |
April 19, 1915 | The Heart of a Painted Woman | Distribution. lost film |
April 26, 1915 | The High Road | Distribution. lost film |
May 2, 1915 | The Shooting of Dan McGrew | Distribution. lost film |
May 9, 1915 | Cora | Distribution. lost film |
May 24, 1915 | Four Feathers | Distribution. lost film |
May 31, 1915 | Her Own Way | Distribution. lost film |
June 7, 1915 | Fighting Bob | Distribution. lost film |
June 14, 1915 | My Best Girl | Distribution. lost film |
June 21, 1915 | Always in the Way | Distribution. lost film |
June 28, 1915 | The Flaming Sword | Distribution. lost film |
July 5, 1915 | Greater Love Hath No Man | Distribution. Extant |
July 12, 1915 | Marse Covington | Distribution. lost film |
July 19, 1915 | The Right of Way | Distribution. lost film |
July 26, 1915 | The Second in Command | Distribution. Extant |
August 2, 1915 | Sealed Valley | lost film, First film produced by Metro[6] |
August 9, 1915 | The Vampire | Distribution. Extant |
August 16, 1915 | A Royal Family | Distribution. Extant |
August 30, 1915 | Her Great Match | Extant |
September 6, 1915 | Destiny | incomplete, 3 reels out of 5 |
September 13, 1915 | The Silent Voice | lost film |
September 15, 1915 | An Enemy to Society | lost film |
September 20, 1915 | The Bigger Man | lost film |
October 4, 1915 | The Song of the Wage Slave | Extant |
October 11, 1915 | Emmy of Stork's Nest | lost film |
October 18, 1915 | The Final Judgment | Extant |
October 25, 1915 | My Madonna | lost film |
November 1, 1915 | Her Reckoning | lost film |
November 8, 1915 | Pennington's Choice | Extant |
November 15, 1915 | The Woman Pays | lost film |
November 22, 1915 | One Million Dollars | lost film |
November 28, 1915 | Barbara Frietchie | lost film |
December 6, 1915 | A Yellow Streak | lost film |
December 13, 1915 | The House of Tears | lost film |
December 20, 1915 | Rosemary | lost film |
December 28, 1915 | Black Fear | lost film |
January 3, 1916 | What Will People Say? | lost film |
January 10, 1916 | The Turmoil | Extant |
January 17, 1916 | Rose of the Alley | lost film |
January 17, 1916 | The Lure of Heart's Desire | lost film |
January 24, 1916 | Her Debt of Honor | Extant |
January 31, 1916 | Man and His Soul | lost film |
February 7, 1916 | The Upstart | lost film |
February 13, 1916 | Dimples | Extant |
February 21, 1916 | The Price of Malice | lost film |
February 21, 1916 | A Corner in Cotton | lost film |
February 21, 1916 | The Red Mouse | lost film |
March 6, 1916 | The Blindness of Love | Extant |
March 12, 1916 | The Soul Market | lost film |
March 13, 1916 | Lovely Mary | lost film |
March 20, 1916 | The Wall Between | incomplete, one reel missing |
March 27, 1916 | Her Great Price | lost film |
April 3, 1916 | The Kiss of Hate | lost film |
April 10, 1916 | The Half Million Bribe | incomplete |
April 16, 1916 | Vanity | lost film |
April 17, 1916 | Playing with Fire | lost film |
April 24, 1916 | The Come-Back | lost film |
May 1, 1916 | The Snowbird | Extant |
May 8, 1916 | A Million a Minute | lost film |
May 15, 1916 | The Spell of the Yukon | lost film |
May 22, 1916 | Notorious Gallagher | lost film |
May 29, 1916 | The Scarlet Woman | lost film |
June 5, 1916 | Dorian's Divorce | Extant |
June 12, 1916 | The Masked Rider | Extant |
June 26, 1916 | The Flower of No Man's Land | lost film |
June 26, 1916 | The Purple Lady | lost film |
July 3, 1916 | The Eternal Question | lost film |
July 10, 1916 | The Quitter | Extant |
July 17, 1916 | The River of Romance | Extant |
July 24, 1916 | The Child of Destiny | lost film |
July 31, 1916 | The Devil at His Elbow | Extant |
August 1, 1916 | God's Half Acre | Extant |
August 20, 1916 | The Weakness of Strength | lost film |
August 21, 1916 | The Pretenders | lost film |
August 28, 1916 | The Upheaval | Extant |
September 4, 1916 | The Light of Happiness | lost film |
September 11, 1916 | Mister 44 | Extant |
September 18, 1916 | The Wheel of the Law | lost film |
September 25, 1916 | The Dawn of Love | lost film |
October 2, 1916 | The Iron Woman | lost film |
October 9, 1916 | Life's Shadows | lost film |
October 16, 1916 | In the Diplomatic Service | Extant |
October 19, 1916 | Romeo and Juliet | lost film |
October 23, 1916 | The Brand of Cowardice | lost film |
October 30, 1916 | The Gates of Eden | lost film |
November 6, 1916 | Extravagance | Extant |
November 13, 1916 | The Wager | lost film |
November 20, 1916 | Big Tremaine | lost film |
November 27, 1916 | The Sunbeam | lost film |
December 4, 1916 | The Black Butterfly | lost film |
December 11, 1916 | The Stolen Triumph | lost film |
December 18, 1916 | The Awakening of Helena Richie | lost film |
December 25, 1916 | Pidgin Island | Extant |
January 6, 1917 | A Wife by Proxy | Extant |
January 14, 1917 | The White Raven | Extant |
January 22, 1917 | Threads of Fate | Fragment |
January 29, 1917 | The End of the Tour | lost film |
February 5, 1917 | Bridges Burned | lost film |
February 12, 1917 | One of Many | lost film |
February 12, 1917 | The Promise | Extant |
February 26, 1917 | The Secret of Eve | lost film |
March 5, 1917 | The Barricade | lost film |
March 12, 1917 | The Mortal Sin | lost film |
March 19, 1917 | His Father's Son | Extant |
March 26, 1917 | The Hidden Children | lost film |
April 2, 1917 | The Waiting Soul | Extant |
April 9, 1917 | The Power of Decision | lost film |
April 18, 1917 | A Magdalene of the Hills | lost film |
April 23, 1917 | God's Law and Man's | lost film |
April 29, 1917 | The Millionaire's Double | lost film |
May 7, 1917 | Sowers and Reapers | lost film |
May 14, 1917 | The Soul of a Magdalen | lost film |
May 21, 1917 | lost film [7] | |
May 27, 1917 | The Call of Her People | Extant |
May 28, 1917 | lost film [8] | |
June 4, 1917 | Lady Barnacle | lost film [9] |
June 11, 1917 | The Haunted Pajamas | Extant |
June 25, 1917 | Aladdin's Other Lamp | lost film |
July 2, 1917 | Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp | lost film |
July 9, 1917 | The Trail of the Shadow | lost film |
July 16, 1917 | The Hidden Spring | lost film |
July 16, 1917 | Extant [10] | |
July 30, 1917 | Miss Robinson Crusoe | lost film |
August 6, 1917 | lost film [11] | |
August 13, 1917 | Extant [12] | |
August 27, 1917 | To the Death | lost film [13] |
September 3, 1917 | Under Handicap | lost film |
September 10, 1917 | lost film [14] | |
September 17, 1917 | Their Compact | lost film [15] |
September 17, 1917 | Extant [16] | |
September 24, 1917 | lost film [17] | |
October 1, 1917 | Paradise Garden | lost film |
October 15, 1917 | A Sleeping Memory | Extant |
October 22, 1917 | More Truth Than Poetry | lost film [18] |
October 29, 1917 | lost film [19] | |
November 5, 1917 | Extant [20] | |
November 8, 1917 | Life's Whirlpool | lost film [21] |
November 12, 1917 | Outwitted | lost film [22] |
November 15, 1917 | Draft 258 | lost film [23] |
November 19, 1917 | Extant [24] | |
November 26, 1917 | Extant [25] | |
December 3, 1917 | The Square Deceiver | lost film |
December 10, 1917 | Blue Jeans | Extant [26] |
December 10, 1917 | Alias Mrs. Jessop | Extant [27] |
December 10, 1917 | lost film [28] | |
December 17, 1917 | lost film [29] | |
December 24, 1917 | Red, White and Blue Blood | lost film [30] |
December 31, 1917 | lost film [31] | |
January 7, 1918 | Daybreak | lost film [32] |
January 14, 1918 | lost film [33] | |
January 21, 1918 | lost film [34] | |
January 27, 1918 | Lest We Forget | Extant |
January 1918 | lost film [35] | |
January 28, 1918 | Her Boy | lost film [36] |
February 4, 1918 | Under Suspicion | lost film [37] |
February 11, 1918 | Broadway Bill | lost film |
February 17, 1918 | Revelation | Extant [38] |
February 18, 1918 | lost film [39] | |
February 25, 1918 | Revenge | lost film [40] |
March 4, 1918 | lost film [41] | |
March 11, 1918 | lost film [42] | |
March 18, 1918 | lost film [43] | |
March 25, 1918 | Breakers Ahead | lost film [44] |
April 1, 1918 | The Landloper | lost film |
April 6, 1918 | Social Hypocrites | Extant [45] |
April 7, 1918 | My Own United States | lost film |
April 15, 1918 | With Neatness and Dispatch | lost film [46] |
April 22, 1918 | Treasure of the Sea | lost film [47] |
April 29, 1918 | Riders of the Night | Extant [48] |
May 6, 1918 | Fragment [49] | |
May 12, 1918 | Toys of Fate | Extant |
May 13, 1918 | Cyclone Higgins, D.D. | lost film [50] |
May 20, 1918 | lost film [51] | |
May 25, 1918 | The Million Dollar Dollies | Extant |
May 27, 1918 | Lend Me Your Name | lost film |
June 3, 1918 | To Hell with the Kaiser! | lost film |
June 10, 1918 | Social Quicksands | lost film [52] |
June 17, 1918 | lost film [53] | |
June 24, 1918 | lost film [54] | |
June 24, 1918 | Extant [55] | |
July 1, 1918 | Opportunity | Extant [56] |
July 8, 1918 | No Man's Land | lost film [57] |
July 15, 1918 | lost film [58] | |
July 22, 1918 | Extant [59] | |
July 29, 1918 | lost film [60] | |
August 5, 1918 | lost film [61] | |
August 12, 1918 | Flower of the Dusk | Extant [62] |
August 12, 1918 | In Judgement Of | Incomplete [63] |
August 26, 1918 | Boston Blackie's Little Pal | lost film [64] |
September 2, 1918 | lost film [65] | |
September 9, 1918 | Our Mrs. McChesney | lost film [66] |
September 16, 1918 | Kildare of Storm | lost film [67] |
September 23, 1918 | lost film [68] | |
September 24, 1918 | Pals First | lost film |
September 30, 1918 | Unexpected Places | lost film [69] |
October 7, 1918 | Secret Strings | lost film [70] |
October 14, 1918 | His Bonded Wife | lost film [71] |
November 25, 1918 | Five Thousand an Hour | lost film [72] |
December 2, 1918 | lost film [73] | |
December 9, 1918 | Hitting the High Spots | lost film [74] |
December 16, 1918 | Sylvia on a Spree | lost film [75] |
December 22, 1918 | Eye for Eye | Extant |
December 23, 1918 | Extant [76] | |
December 30, 1918 | Her Inspiration | lost film [77] |
January 1, 1919 | The Great Victory | lost film [78] |
January 6, 1919 | lost film [79] | |
January 6, 1919 | lost film [80] | |
January 19, 1919 | The Great Romance | lost film [81] |
January 20, 1919 | lost film [82] | |
January 27, 1919 | In for Thirty Days | Extant [83] |
February 3, 1919 | Faith | lost film [84] |
February 8, 1919 | Out of the Fog | lost film [85] |
February 10, 1919 | As the Sun Went Down | lost film [86] |
February 17, 1919 | Johnny-on-the-Spot | Extant [87] |
February 23, 1919 | Shadows of Suspicion | lost film [88] |
February 24, 1919 | Peggy Does Her Darndest | lost film [89] |
March 3, 1919 | Satan Junior | incomplete, one reel missing [90] |
March 10, 1919 | Blind Man's Eyes | lost film [91] |
March 17, 1919 | lost film [92] | |
March 24, 1919 | That's Good | lost film [93] |
March 31, 1919 | lost film [94] | |
April 1, 1919 | A Man of Honor | lost film [95] |
April 7, 1919 | lost film [96] | |
April 14, 1919 | Blackie's Redemption | lost film [97] |
April 21, 1919 | False Evidence | Extant [98] |
April 28, 1919 | May have been released on May 5, 1919. lost film [99] | |
April 28, 1919 | After His Own Heart | Extant [100] |
May 4, 1919 | The Red Lantern | Extant [101] |
May 12, 1919 | Castles in the Air | lost film [102] |
May 19, 1919 | Extant [103] | |
May 26, 1919 | Full of Pep | lost film [104] |
June 2, 1919 | Almost Married | lost film [105] |
June 9, 1919 | Some Bride | lost film [106] |
June 16, 1919 | Fools and Their Money | lost film [107] |
June 23, 1919 | One-Thing-at-a-Time O'Day | lost film [108] |
June 30, 1919 | Extant [109] | |
July 6, 1919 | The Man Who Stayed at Home | lost film [110] |
July 7, 1919 | God's Outlaw | lost film [111] |
July 14, 1919 | In His Brother's Place | lost film [112] |
July 21, 1919 | lost film [113] | |
July 28, 1919 | lost film [114] | |
August 4, 1919 | Easy To Make Money | lost film [115] |
August 18, 1919 | lost film [116] | |
August 18, 1919 | lost film [117] | |
September 1, 1919 | The Brat | lost film [118] |
October 1, 1919 | Lombardi, Ltd. | Extant [119] |
October 25, 1919 | Please Get Married | lost film [120] |
November 1, 1919 | Fair and Warmer | lost film [121] |
December 28, 1919 | Should a Woman Tell? | Extant [122] |
Release date | Film | Status/References |
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January 1, 1920 | Nothing But the Truth | lost film |
January 11, 1920 | Stronger Than Death | Extant |
January 31, 1920 | The Willow Tree | Extant |
February 1, 1920 | The Walk-Offs | lost film |
February 17, 1920 | A Modern Salome | lost film |
February 29, 1920 | The Right of Way | lost film |
March 1, 1920 | The Very Idea | lost film |
April 1, 1920 | Dangerous to Men | lost film |
April 1, 1920 | Nothing But Lies | Extant |
April 11, 1920 | The Heart of a Child | lost film |
April 14, 1920 | Alias Jimmy Valentine | lost film [123] |
May 16, 1920 | Shore Acres | lost film |
May 20, 1920 | Burning Daylight | Extant [124] |
May 23, 1920 | Old Lady 31 | lost film |
June 7, 1920 | The Cheater | lost film |
July 1, 1920 | The Best of Luck | lost film [125] |
July 5, 1920 | Parlor, Bedroom and Bath | lost film [126] |
July 19, 1920 | lost film [127] | |
August 2, 1920 | Held in Trust | lost film [128] |
August 15, 1920 | The Great Redeemer | lost film |
August 16, 1920 | Extant [129] | |
September 6, 1920 | Love, Honor and Obey | lost film |
September 7, 1920 | Extant [130] | |
September 13, 1920 | lost film [131] | |
September 27, 1920 | Clothes | lost film [132] |
October 1920 | The Mutiny of the Elsinore | Incomplete |
October 4, 1920 | Blackmail | lost film [133] |
October 4, 1920 | Madame Peacock | Extant |
October 11, 1920 | Extant [134] | |
October 24, 1920 | The Great Redeemer | lost film |
October 25, 1920 | Body and Soul | Extant [135] |
November 1, 1920 | lost film [136] | |
November 8, 1920 | Are All Men Alike? | lost film [137] |
November 15, 1920 | Someone in the House | lost film [138] |
November 27, 1920 | The Star Rover | lost film |
November 29, 1920 | Polly With a Past | lost film [139] |
December 1920 | Love's Triumph | Unsure it was ever released, might be Should a Woman Tell? (1919) [140] |
December 6, 1920 | Billions | lost film |
December 13, 1920 | Hearts are Trumps | lost film [141] |
December 20, 1920 | lost film [142] | |
December 27, 1920 | Cinderella's Twin | lost film [143] |
January 10, 1921 | lost film [144] | |
January 17, 1921 | lost film [145] | |
January 21, 1921 | lost film [146] | |
January 21, 1921 | Incomplete [147] | |
January 29, 1921 | The Silver Lining | lost film |
January 31, 1921 | lost film [148] | |
February 7, 1921 | Passion Fruit | lost film [149] |
March 6, 1921 | Extant [150] | |
March 7, 1921 | Extravagance | lost film [151] |
March 20, 1921 | Without Limit | Extant |
March 28, 1921 | Puppets of Fate | Extant [152] |
April 11, 1921 | Extant [153] | |
April 25, 1921 | Uncharted Seas | lost film [154] |
May 1, 1921 | The Little Fool | [155] |
May 13, 1921 | Coincidence | lost film [156] |
May 23, 1921 | Extant [157] | |
June 16, 1921 | Home Stuff | |
June 20, 1921 | Fine Feathers | Extant [158] |
July 4, 1921 | Extant [159] | |
July 18, 1921 | Over the Wire | lost film [160] |
August 1, 1921 | Life's Darn Funny | lost film [161] |
August 16, 1921 | Big Game | lost film [162] |
September 5, 1921 | lost film [163] | |
September 19, 1921 | The Match-Breaker | lost film |
September 26, 1921 | Camille | Extant |
October 5, 1921 | Garments of Truth | Extant |
October 17, 1921 | lost film [164] | |
October 31, 1921 | Alias Ladyfingers | lost film [165] |
October 31, 1921 | Ladyfingers | lost film [166] |
November 14, 1921 | There Are No Villains | lost film [167] |
November 20, 1921 | Fightin' Mad | lost film |
November 21, 1921 | Extant [168] | |
November 28, 1921 | The Hunch | lost film [169] |
December 12, 1921 | lost film [170] | |
December 26, 1921 | lost film [171] | |
January 8, 1922 | Little Eva Ascends | lost film [172] |
January 9, 1922 | Extant [173] | |
January 9, 1922 | White Hands | lost film |
January 23, 1922 | Peacock Alley | Incomplete |
February 1, 1922 | The Stroke of Midnight | US release of Swedish film |
February 6, 1922 | lost film [174] | |
February 20, 1922 | lost film [175] | |
February 27, 1922 | Turn to the Right | Extant [176] |
March 6, 1922 | Glass Houses | lost film [177] |
March 20, 1922 | I Can Explain | lost film [178] |
April 3, 1922 | Kisses | lost film [179] |
April 10, 1922 | Fascination | lost film |
April 17, 1922 | lost film [180] | |
May 1, 1922 | Seeing's Believing | Extant [181] |
May 15, 1922 | Don't Write Letters | lost film [182] |
May 20, 1922 | Hate | lost film [183] |
June 12, 1922 | They Like 'Em Rough | lost film [184] |
June 26, 1922 | Sherlock Brown | lost film [185] |
July 23, 1922 | Forget Me Not | lost film [186] |
August 26, 1922 | The Hands of Nara | lost film [187] |
September 4, 1922 | lost film [188] | |
September 11, 1922 | Extant [189] | |
September 25, 1922 | Broadway Rose | Extant |
October 16, 1922 | Youth to Youth | lost film [190] |
October 23, 1922 | June Madness | incomplete, 4 reels of 6 [191] |
November 6, 1922 | Trifling Women | lost film [192] |
November 13, 1922 | Enter Madame | Extant [193] |
November 20, 1922 | The Forgotten Law | lost film |
November 26, 1922 | The Toll of the Sea | Extant [194] |
December 4, 1922 | Quincy Adams Sawyer | lost film |
December 11, 1922 | Love in the Dark | lost film [195] |
December 18, 1922 | Peg o' My Heart | Incomplete [196] |
January 1, 1923 | Hearts Aflame | lost film [197] |
January 18, 1923 | The Fog | lost film |
January 19, 1923 | All the Brothers Were Valiant | Fragment [198] |
February 5, 1923 | Crinoline and Romance | lost film [199] |
February 12, 1923 | Jazzmania | Extant [200] |
February 19, 1923 | The Famous Mrs. Fair | Extant [201] |
February 20, 1923 | The Woman in Chains | lost film |
February 25, 1923 | Success | lost film [202] |
February 26, 1923 | The Woman of Bronze | lost film [203] |
March 5, 1923 | Your Friend and Mine | lost film [204] |
March 12, 1923 | lost film [205] | |
March 19, 1923 | Where the Pavement Ends | lost film [206] |
April 9, 1923 | Her Fatal Millions | lost film [207] |
April 16, 1923 | An Old Sweetheart of Mine | lost film [208] |
April 30, 1923 | Cordelia the Magnificent | lost film [209] |
May 7, 1923 | Soul of the Beast | Extant [210] |
June 18, 1923 | The Fog | lost film [211] |
September 3, 1923 | The French Doll | Extant [212] |
September 5, 1923 | The White Sister | Extant [213] |
September 10, 1923 | Strangers of the Night | lost film [214] |
September 17, 1923 | Rouged Lips | Extant [215] |
September 19, 1923 | A Wife's Romance | lost film [216] |
September 24, 1923 | Three Ages | Extant [217] |
September 30, 1923 | Scaramouche | Extant [218] |
October 1, 1923 | Desire | lost film [219] |
October 15, 1923 | Extant [220] | |
October 1923 | lost film [221] | |
November 22, 1923 | Held to Answer | lost film [222] |
November 26, 1923 | Long Live the King | Extant [223] |
December 10, 1923 | In Search of a Thrill | Extant [224] |
December 24, 1923 | Extant [225] | |
October 8, 1923 | The Eternal Struggle | Extant [226] |
November 5, 1923 | Pleasure Mad | Extant [227] |
November 19, 1923 | Our Hospitality | Extant [228] |
December 3, 1923 | Fashion Row | lost film [229] |
December 24, 1923 | The Man Life Passed By | Extant |
January 14, 1924 | Half-A-Dollar-Bill | Extant |
January 24, 1924 | lost film [230] | |
January 28, 1924 | Extant [231] | |
February 4, 1924 | Thy Name Is Woman | Extant |
February 11, 1924 | The Uninvited Guest | Extant |
March 9, 1924 | Happiness | Extant [232] |
March 24, 1924 | Don't Doubt Your Husband | lost film [233] |
March 31, 1924 | The Shooting of Dan McGrew | Extant |
April 19, 1924 | Sherlock Jr. | Extant |