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Samuel Goldwyn Productions1916–1959. Goldwyn is recognized worldwide as one of the most significant single individuals in the history of the motion picture industry. Goldwyn became Hollywood's pre-eminent independent filmmaker producing a body of work, which included 80 films. In 1947, Goldwyn made “The Best Years of Our Lives,” which won ...
Feb 23, 2017 · David Geffen, Samuel Goldwyn and the Search for the “Holy Grail” of Missing Movies. What started as a request from Geffen to screen the Goldwyn production 'Porgy and Bess' ended up as a hunt ...
Samuel Goldwyn, born Schmuel Gelbfisz in 1879 in Warsaw, Poland, is a towering figure in the annals of Hollywood history. Migrating to the United States in his late teens and later anglicizing his ...
Samuel Goldwyn Productions was an American film production company founded by Samuel Goldwyn in 1923, and active through 1959. Personally controlled by Goldwyn and focused on production rather than distribution, the company developed into the most financially and critically successful independent production company in Hollywood's Golden Age.
Jan 10, 2015 · Jan. 9, 2015. LOS ANGELES — Samuel Goldwyn Jr., an urbane, soft-spoken scion of a Hollywood dynasty who became an influential movie executive in his own right, supporting promising young ...
Samuel Goldwyn, rodným jménem Szmuel Gelbfisz ( 17. srpna 1879, Varšava – 31. ledna 1974, Los Angeles ), byl americký filmový producent a podnikatel židovského původu narozený na území dnešního Polska (tehdy Ruská říše ). Stál u počátků Hollywoodu a jeho slavných značek jako Paramount či Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Samuel Goldwyn was a coarse man of daunting drive and appetite, a wayward husband and sadly inadequate father, but he was also one of a truly astonishing generation. The inspired ruffians who put the shtetls behind them to become czars of a sort. Seizing the day. Inventing Hollywood.
