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Goldwyn was likely born in July 1879, although he claimed his birthday to be August 27, 1882. [4] He was born as Szmuel Gelbfisz [a] in Warsaw to Polish Jewish Hasidic parents, Aaron Dawid Gelbfisz, [5] a peddler, and his wife, Hanna Frymet (née Fiszhaut). [6]
Samuel Goldwyn 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 glove factory. By the age of 18 he was one of the top.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
He reached the US, probably via Canada, in 1898. He gravitated to Gloversville, New York, in the Adirondack foothills, which was then the capital of the US leather glove industry; he became one of the country's most successful glove salesmen.
- August 17, 1879
- January 31, 1974
After serving as Vice President for four years Samuel Goldfish left the job and went back to New York City. By then, he was married to Blanche Lasky, sister of Jesse L. Lasky, one of the pioneer producers of American film industry.
- Introduction
- New York
- Hollywood Beginnings
- Paramount Pictures
- Goldfish to Goldwyn
- The Birth of MGM
- Talent and Work Ethic
- The Goldwyn Touch
- Goldwynisms
- Wuthering Heights
Looking at the life of movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn, it’s utterly amazing to see how many threads of the film industry he touched. Indeed, in many ways, telling his sprawling story is like describing the history of Hollywood itself. We hope you’ll agree it’s an incredible tale. Schmuel Gelbfisz entered this world in July 1879. Born in a Jewish ghetto...
Sitting in steerage during the voyage, he heard horror stories from the other immigrants about American authorities sending penniless immigrants back to Europe. Taking no chances, Goldfish got off the boat at its first port of call in Halifax, Nova Scotia. From there, he trudged five hundred miles in the dead of winter to New York City. When Goldfi...
There was only one problem. Neither Goldfish nor Lasky knew anything about making movies. So, they reached out to a theatrical director named Cecil B. DeMille and asked him to join the company. DeMille was intrigued but was upfront about the fact he had never made a movie either. However, after spending some time visiting Thomas Edison’s studios in...
But the project still ran out of money before DeMille had finished. So, to pay for the completion of The Squaw Man,Goldfish and Lasky approached a distributor named Adolph Zukor. In return for the rights, Zukor gave them enough money to finish shooting. When The Squaw Man proved a major success, a merger was proposed between Goldfish, Lasky, DeMill...
Down, but not out, Goldfish struck up a new partnership. This time with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn. They formed another new company, bought some property in Culver City, California, and called it Goldwyn Picturesafter a melding of their two last names. Mr. Goldfish was so delighted he legally changed his own name to match that of...
Behind Goldwyn’s back, the distributor leveraged this into a controlling interest and sold the company to theater chain owner Marcus Loew. The two men named the venture Metro Goldwyn Studios and brought in an outsider named Louis B. Mayer to run it. Mayer asked for, and the partners agreed, to add his name to the masthead. It became known as Metro-...
This all took place in 1924, and Samuel Goldwyn fell into a deep depression. For nearly a year, he remained inactive and kept to himself. Taking stock of his finances, Goldwyn was well aware that he was still broke. He figured he needed around $250,000 to get re-started. Goldwyn approached Cecil B. DeMille, who now sat on the board of directors at ...
In 1931, Goldwyn hired director John Ford to bring Sinclair Lewis’ tale of an idealistic young doctor to the screen in Arrowsmith. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Goldwyn was deeply disappointed when he lost the grand prize to MGM and Louis B. Mayer’s production of Grand Hotel(1932) the following year. It was...
As Samuel Goldwyn’s reputation as a major producer began to take root, stories began to circulate throughout the film industry about his unique style of phrasing. As an immigrant, Goldwyn was at first embarrassed and self-conscious about his grammatical missteps. But his publicity department reminded him that every time someone told a joke about Go...
Humor and levity aside, Goldwyn’s management style finally met its match with the classic film Wuthering Heights (1939). It starred Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in a tale of doomed love between a stable boy and a girl of higher social standing. After circumstances conspire to keep them apart, she falls gravely ill and dies after admitting she’...
Jan 11, 2015 · Independent filmmaker and producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. passed away on January 9, 2015, in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at age 88, of congestive heart failure. The son of Samuel Goldwyn (b. Schmuel Gelbfisz, 1879-1974) and his second wife Frances Howard (1903-1976, they were married from 1925 till 1974), he was a creative force….
Jan 11, 2015 · Samuel Goldwyn Jr, a champion of independent film and son to one of the founding fathers of Hollywood cinema, has died aged 88. Among his achievements, he was credited with giving Julia Roberts...
