How to understand the word "Leo" in the following sentence, is it a movie's name?
Cinema-goers in the West are used to seeing majestic Leo, the roaring MGM lion, and comely Columbia, the torch-bering maiden meant to embody the United States, at the beginning of films.

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How to understand the word "Leo" in the following sentence, is it a movie's name?
Cinema-goers in the West are used to seeing majestic Leo, the roaring MGM lion, and comely Columbia, the torch-bering maiden meant to embody the United States, at the beginning of films.

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This text is talking about the famous logos of the various film studios. The film studio MGM has a roaring lion, and Columbia has a woman with a torch. 'Leo' is the lion which is the symbol of MGM studios. Here is the wikipedia page about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Lion_%28MGM%29

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The passage tells you what Leo is:  majestic Leo, the roaring MGM lion, (he's the lion)
Maybe a hyphen would be better suited after Leo.  majestic Leo -  the roaring MGM lion,

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