While Mayer seldom discussed his early life , his partiality towards Canada would sometimes be revealed , especially after Canada and America entered World War II . On one occasion in 1943 , Mary Pickford called to tell him she met a movie-struck Royal Canadian Air Force pilot from New Brunswick , where Mayer grew up . Mayer asked her to have him drop by the studio . The pilot , Charles Foster , recalled his visit : " Mary 's driver took me through the gates , and I saw this little man come running down the steps of the Thalberg Building . I thought , ' Oh , he 's sent a man to greet me . ' And I got out of the car , and this man threw his arms around me and said , ' Welcome to my studio . ' " Mayer took him on a personal tour of the studio , and Foster remembers that " everybody waved to him and he waved back . He spoke to people and knew them by name . I was shocked . " Mayer invited him back for lunch the next day . But before Foster arrived , Mayer had invited every Canadian in Hollywood to meet the flier , including Fay Wray , Walter Pidgeon , Jack Carson , Rod Cameron , Deanna Durbin , Walter Huston , Ann Rutherford , and even his main competitor , Jack Warner . Mayer told him , " When this war is over , if you want to come back here , I 'll find a job for you . " Foster said " It was like he was the father I never knew . " Active in Republican Party politics , Mayer served as the vice chairman of the California Republican Party in 1931 and 1932 , and as its state chairman in 1932 and 1933 . As a delegate to the 1928 Republican National Convention in Kansas City , Louis B. Mayer supported Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover of California . Mayer became friends with California Governor James Rolph , Jr. , '' Oakland Tribune '' publisher Joseph R. Knowland , and Marshall Hale . Joseph M. Schenck was an alternate delegate at the convention . Mayer was a delegate to the 1932 Republican National Convention with fellow Californians Knowland , Rolph , and Earl Warren . Mayer endorsed President Herbert Hoover 's failed reelection bid
1928 Republican National Convention
1928 Republican National Convention
Louis B. Mayer