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Samuel Goldwyn (/ ˈ ɡ oʊ l d w ɪ n /; 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 motion picture.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr. was born on September 7, 1926, in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Frances Howard (1903–1976) and the pioneer motion picture mogul Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974). He attended Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the University of Virginia . [ 1 ]
Studio mogul Goldwyn wanted Kaye's prominent nose fixed to look less Jewish; [24] [25] Kaye refused, but he did allow his red hair to be bleached blond, apparently because it looked better in Technicolor. [25] White Christmas trailer. Kaye starred in a radio program, The Danny Kaye Show, on CBS from 1945 to 1946. [26] The program's popularity ...
The Samuel Goldwyn Company Rotten Tomatoes score : 90% In this Shakespeare adaptation, Washington plays Don Pedro, a prince and matchmaker for his close friends Leonato, Benedick, Hero, Claudio ...
Samuel Goldwyn has acquired U.S. rights to Christina Rosendahl’s World War II-set drama “The Good Traitor” and Ole Christian Madsen’s Danish terrorist drama “The Day We Died ...
Despite good reviews the picture did not establish Sten as a star among movie-goers and she remained "Goldwyn's Folly". [98] In 1937 Vidor made his final and most profitable picture with Samuel Goldwyn: Stella Dallas. A remake of Goldwyn's most successful silent movie, the 1925 Stella Dallas, also an adaption of Olive Higgins Prouty's popular ...
The mansion was built in 1934 by the late movie producer Samuel L. Goldwyn Sr. Swift bought it for a reported $25 million in 2015, and ABC News declared her the “proud owner of a piece of movie ...
Marcus Loew, owner of the Loew's chain, merged Metro Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn's Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, and Mayer Pictures into Metro-Goldwyn. Loew had bought Metro and Goldwyn some months before, but could not find anyone to oversee his new holdings on the West Coast. Mayer, with his proven success as a producer, was an obvious choice.