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Samuel Goldwyn. Samuel Goldwyn ( / ˈɡoʊldwɪn /; born Szmuel Gelbfisz; Yiddish: שמואל געלבפֿיש; August 27, 1882 (claimed but most likely July 1879) – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, [1] was a Polish -born American film producer and pioneer in the American film industry, who produced Hollywood ’s first major ...
Samuel Goldwyn was a Polish-born American film producer who founded several studios and made many classic films. He was known for his ambition, temper, publicity and "Goldwyn touch".
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Jun 27, 2024 · Samuel Goldwyn (born July 1879, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire—died Jan. 31, 1974, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) was a pioneer American filmmaker and one of Hollywood’s most prominent producers for more than 30 years. Orphaned as a child, Goldwyn emigrated first to London and eventually to a small town in New York state, where he worked in a ...
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Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmul Gelbfisz), 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 ...
Biography. A pioneer in the American independent film industry, Samuel Goldwyn emerged from the founding of both Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to establish his own company, Samuel Goldwyn Pictures, which produced such memorable movies as "Wuthering Heights" (1939), "The Little Foxes" (1941), "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1946 ...
Jan 31, 2015 · Samuel Goldwyn Jr. continued his father’s legacy and also entered the industry as a film producer, founding the independent film company Samuel Goldwyn Films in 1990. He died on Jan. 9, 2015 of ...
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Jan 31, 2014 · When Goldwyn died Jan. 31, 1974, the industry’s major studios stopped work for two minutes out of respect. Goldwyn’s rags-to-riches story has been told many times before. Born Schmuel Gelbfisz ...
