Leo the Lion is the mascot for the legendary Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors , Goldwyn Pictures , featured in the studio 's production logo , which was created by the Paramount Studios art director Lionel S. Reiss.  1916 ( and when the studio was formed by the merger of Samuel Goldwyn 's studio with Marcus Loew 's Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer 's company in 1924 ) , there have been seven different lions used for the MGM logo .
The Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is renowned .