Editing Roger Moore (section)

===MGM (1954–1956)===
In March 1954 [[MGM]] signed Moore to a seven-year contract.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pryor |first1=Thomas M. |title=ERROL FLYNN ENDS PACT AT WARNERS |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/03/20/archives/errol-flynn-ends-pact-at-warners-actor-and-studio-agree-to-part.html |work=The New York Times |date=20 March 1954}}</ref> He started his MGM contract with a small role in ''[[The Last Time I Saw Paris]]'' (1954), flirting with [[Elizabeth Taylor]]. He appeared in ''[[Interrupted Melody]]'', a biographical movie about opera singer [[Marjorie Lawrence]]'s recovery from polio, in which he was billed third under [[Glenn Ford]] and [[Eleanor Parker]] as Lawrence's brother Cyril.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=51537 |title=Interrupted Melody |work=American Film Institute |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref> That same year, he played a supporting role in the swashbuckler ''[[The King's Thief]]'' starring [[Ann Blyth]], [[Edmund Purdom]], [[David Niven]] and [[George Sanders]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fttJBgAAQBAJ&q=the%20king's%20thief%20roger%20moore&pg=PT287 |title=Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |publisher=Penguin |date=2005 |isbn=9780698197299}}</ref>

In the 1956 film ''[[Diane (1956 film)|Diane]]'', Moore was billed third again, this time under [[Lana Turner]] and [[Pedro Armendariz]], in a 16th-century period piece set in France with Moore playing [[Henry II of France|Prince Henri]], the future king. Moore was released from his MGM contract after two years following the film's critical and commercial failure. In his own words, "At MGM, RGM [Roger George Moore] was NBG [no bloody good]."<ref name="BFIObit"/>

Moore then freelanced for a time, appearing in episodes of ''[[Ford Star Jubilee]]'' (1956), ''[[Lux Video Theatre]]'' (1957) and ''[[Matinee Theatre]]'' (1957).