Today In History: Leo's First Roar

Posted Wednesday, July 31, 2002 at 10:27 AM Central

by Heather Koehler

Columbia's Lady, Paramount's mountain and Universal's globe are all symbols Hollywood has lived by for years.

But it was on this day in 1928 that "Leo the Lion" roared for the first time at the beginning of MGM's first talking picture, White Shadows in the South Seas.