She made more than two dozen MGM movies.
Pal had played Lassie in the seven MGM movies about the dog character.
Many MGM movies of the 1930s carried a sepia-like tone called "Pearl".
He rarely goes to screenings of MGM movies either.
The MGM movie was seen by hundreds of thousands of Americans.
The interior, with gleaming accents, dark oak and white leather, has the ambience of an MGM movie set from the '40s.
Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture.
Swartz explores how this production influenced stage and film adaptations that followed, including the 1939 MGM movie.
He notes, however, that the various versions influenced each other and led to the 1939 MGM movie.
The film was shot in a span of a couple days and was used as a preview of upcoming MGM movies.