Samuel Goldwyn

 

Samuel Goldwyn

  • Overview
  • Info & links
  • Images
  • Comments

Visa denna sida på svenska på Film.nu

From Wikipedia Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmul Gelbfisz ; c. July 1879 - January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood. In 1916, Goldwyn partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making enterprise Goldwyn Pictures. Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Gelbfisz then had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn, which he used for the rest of his life. Goldwyn Pictures proved successful but it is their "Leo the Lion" trademark for which the organization is most famous. On April 10, 1924, Goldwyn Pictures was acquired by Marcus Loew and merged into his Metro Pictures Corporation. Despite the inclusion of his name, Goldwyn had no role in the management or production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Read more about Samuel Goldwyn

Lists & News

Producer

 

Executive Producer

 
 
TMDb Filmanic is using The Movie Database API (TMDb) for certain functions, but is in no way supported or certified by TMDb.

Is this page about you? The information we have obtained is in whole or in part from The Movie Database (TMDb). You may request that we remove all personal information we have stored about you by sending us an email and include the URL of this page. Explain who you are, so we know you are the person this page is about. To delete your data from TMDb, you must contact them separately.

Samuel Goldwyn

Born 1879-08-17 (145 years ago) in Warsaw. Dead 1974-01-31 (94 years).

Find out more about Samuel Goldwyn

IMDb Wikipedia The Movie Database
Awards
Award Ceremony Year Awarded for
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety-Music Events Programming (The Academy Awards) 40th Primetime Emmy Awards 1988 The Academy Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Porgy and Bess) 17th Golden Globe Awards 1959 Porgy and Bess
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Guys and Dolls) 13th Golden Globe Awards 1955 Guys and Dolls
Nominated for awards
Award Ceremony Year Nominated for
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety-Music Events Programming (The Academy Awards) 40th Primetime Emmy Awards 1988 The Academy Awards
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award 30th Golden Globe Awards 1972
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Porgy and Bess) 17th Golden Globe Awards 1959 Porgy and Bess
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Guys and Dolls) 13th Golden Globe Awards 1955 Guys and Dolls
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Hans Christian Andersen) 10th Golden Globe Awards 1952 Hans Christian Andersen
Academy Award for Best Picture (Dead End) 10th Academy Awards 1937 Dead End
Relationships
Name From To Relationship type
Frances Howard(Gifta: 1925-04-23–1974-01-31) 1925-04-23 1974-01-31 Gifta
Blanche Lasky(Gifta: 1910-05-08–1915-09-23) 1910-05-08 1915-09-23 Gifta
Children

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Ruth Capps

Parents

Aaron David Gelbfisz, Hannah Reban

Siblings

Ben Gelbfisz, Manya Gelbfisz

Images of Samuel Goldwyn

Click to enlarge images

Your opinion about Samuel Goldwyn?

Start a discussion about Samuel Goldwyn with your friends on Facebook or Twitter!

Samuel Goldwyn

Bio provided by Wikipedia External link to the source of this bio

From Wikipedia

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmul Gelbfisz ; c. July 1879 - January

31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish American film producer.

He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of

several motion picture studios in Hollywood.

In 1916, Goldwyn partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and

Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making

enterprise Goldwyn Pictures. Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Gelbfisz then had

his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn, which he used for the rest of his

life. Goldwyn Pictures proved successful but it is their "Leo the

Lion" trademark for which the organization is most famous.

On April 10, 1924, Goldwyn Pictures was acquired by Marcus

Loew and merged into his Metro Pictures Corporation. Despite the inclusion of

his name, Goldwyn had no role in the management or production at

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Before the sale and merger of Goldwyn Pictures in April

1924, Goldwyn had established Samuel Goldwyn Productions in 1923 as a

production-only operation (with no distribution arm). Their first feature was

Potash and Perlmutter, released in September 1923 through First National

Pictures. Some of the early productions bear the name "Howard

Productions", named for Goldwyn's wife Frances Howard.

For 35 years, Goldwyn built a reputation in filmmaking and

developed an eye for finding the talent for making films. William Wyler

directed many of his most celebrated productions, and he hired writers such as

Ben Hecht, Sidney Howard, Dorothy Parker, and Lillian Hellman. (According to

legend, at a heated story conference Goldwyn scolded someoneâ??in most accounts

Mrs. Parker, who recalled he had once been a glove makerâ??with the retort:

"Don't you point that finger at me. I knew it when it had a thimble on

it!" During that time, Goldwyn made numerous films and reigned as

the most successful independent producer in the US. Many of his films were

forgettable; his collaboration with John Ford, however, resulted in Best

Picture Oscar nomination for Arrowsmith (1931). William Wyler was responsible

for most of Goldwyn's highly lauded films, with Best Picture Oscar nominations

for Dodsworth (1936), Dead End (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Little

Foxes (1941) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1948). The leading actors in

several of Goldwyn films, especially those directed by William Wyler, were also

Oscar-nominated for their performances.

Throughout the 1930s, Goldwyn released all his films through

United Artists, but beginning in 1941, and continuing almost through the end of

his career, Goldwyn released his films through RKO Radio Pictures.

Goldwyn died at his home in Los Angeles in 1974 from natural

causes, at the probable age of 94. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial

Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. In the 1980s, Samuel Goldwyn Studio was

sold to Warner Bros.. There is a theater named after him in Beverly Hills and

he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1631 Vine Street.

Content from Wikipedia provided under the terms of Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

×
×
×
×
×