No one knows what day Louis B. Mayer’s birthday was, but he decided to make it July 4.
Mayer (1885-1957) claimed he had lost the records of his real birthday during emigration from Russia.
He celebrated the nation’s birthday, and his own, with a big MGM picnic every Fourth of July.
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