Samuel Goldwyn
制片人, 演员
1879年8月17日 — 1974年1月31日 (94年)
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. 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 someone —in most accounts Mrs. Parker, who recalled he had once been a glove maker— 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.
影视作品
| 1959 | |
| 1955 | Guys and DollsPlex提供 |
| 1952 | Hans Christian AndersenPlex提供 |
| 1951 | I Want YouPlex提供 |
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| 1949 | My Foolish HeartPlex提供 |
| 1949 | |
| 1948 | EnchantmentPlex提供 |
| 1948 | A Song Is BornPlex提供 |
| 1947 | The Bishop's WifePlex提供 |
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| 1946 | The Kid from BrooklynPlex提供 |
| 1945 | Wonder ManPlex提供 |
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| 1944 | Up in ArmsPlex提供 |
| 1943 | The North StarPlex提供 |
| 1943 | |
| 1942 | The Pride of the YankeesPlex提供 |
| 1941 | Ball of FirePlex提供 |
| 1941 | The Little FoxesPlex提供 |
| 1940 | The WesternerPlex提供 |
| 1939 | RafflesPlex提供 |
| 1939 | The Real GloryPlex提供 |
| 1939 | They Shall Have MusicPlex提供 |
| 1939 | Wuthering HeightsPlex提供 |
| 1938 | The Cowboy and the LadyPlex提供 |
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| 1938 | The Goldwyn FolliesPlex提供 |
| 1937 | The HurricanePlex提供 |
| 1937 | Dead EndPlex提供 |
| 1937 | Stella DallasPlex提供 |
| 1937 | Woman Chases ManPlex提供 |
| 1936 | Beloved EnemyPlex提供 |
| 1936 | Come and Get ItPlex提供 |
| 1936 | DodsworthPlex提供 |
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| 1935 | Barbary CoastPlex提供 |
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| 1935 | The Wedding NightPlex提供 |
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| 1934 | We Live AgainPlex提供 |
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| 1933 | Roman ScandalsPlex提供 |
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| 1932 | The Kid from SpainPlex提供 |
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| 1931 | ArrowsmithPlex提供 |
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| 1931 | Street ScenePlex提供 |
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| 1930 | The Devil to Pay!Plex提供 |
| 1930 | Whoopee!Plex提供 |
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| 1929 | Condemned!Plex提供 |
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| 1924 | Name the Man! · as Executive Producer |
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| 1922 | Sherlock Holmes · as Executive Producer |
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| 1920 | The PenaltyPlex提供 |
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| 1918 | |
| 1917 | The Cinderella Man · as Executive Producer |
| 1917 | Polly of the Circus · as Executive Producer |
| 1925 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ · as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) |
| 2014 | |
| 2013 | Salinger · as Self - Film Producer (archive Footage) |
| 2004 | Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2000 | Central Casting · as Self |
| 1998 | |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) · as Self |
| 1953 | Person to Person · as Self - Movie Producer |
| 1950 | What's My Line? · as Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show · as Self |