MGM executives screened Greed at full length once to meet contractual obligations.

MGM executives concluded that these goals were challenging but doable.

MGM executives asked Wyler to take over the executive producer's job, with an extra salary of $100,000.

Wyler agreed, although he had assistance from experienced MGM executives as well.

MGM executives then sought a way to break Weatherwax's contract.

MGM executives thought the song "slowed down the picture".

"At that level of economics, it had to be great," said an MGM executive, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The climactic scene in which Chance is killed was not very well received by MGM executives, who found it to be too negative.

MGM executives were confident that antitrust regulators would not require the sale of any of the two companies' properties.

An MGM executive told us of telling an 8-year-old boy he was not allowed to drink a beer.