Trivia

Was a newspaper reporter for the St. Louis Times.

Along with Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg and Harry Rapf was one of the "Big Four" in the early days of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.

For a decade he was among the top ten highest paid Americans.

Produced Greta Garbo's first American movie, The Torrent (1924).

All of Jean Harlow's movies were produced by Stromberg.

Produced all of the "Thin Man" movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.

Began at MGM as director of advertising and publicity.

Founded Santa Anita and Hollywood Park race tracks.

Father of producer Hunt Stromberg Jr..

Stromberg was contracted by MGM in 1925 and served as one of the production supervisors directly responsible to head of production Irving Thalberg. He remained at MGM for 17 years, and, as a result of Thalberg's illness, rose to greater prominence after 1932. Stromberg had a strong leaning toward musicals and comedies, producing many of the popular series of Nelson Eddy - Jeanette MacDonald operettas. He also scored hits with MGM's first Technicolor ventures, in particular, Northwest Passage (1940).

During the mid-'30s he was considered Hollywood's #1 producer.

Founded Producers Distributing Corp., a production/distribution company, in the 1920s.

In 1937 he was hired as a producer/production executive at MGM with a salary of $8,000 per week plus 1.5% of the profits of Loew's, Inc. (MGM's parent company).