Samuel Goldwyn

Polish-American film producer (1882–1974)

For other uses, see Samuel Goldwyn (disambiguation).

Samuel Goldwyn

Goldwyn in 1949

Born|

Szmuel Gelbfisz

July 1879 (most likely)
(claimed to be August 27, 1882)

Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire

Died| January 31, 1974(1974-01-31) (aged 94)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Resting place| Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
Other names| Samuel Goldfish
Years active| 1917–1959
Spouses|

Blanche Lasky

(m. 1910; div. 1915)​

Frances Howard

(m. 1925)​

Children| 2, including Samuel Jr.
Relatives| Tony Goldwyn (grandson)
John Goldwyn (grandson)
Liz Goldwyn (granddaughter)
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Samuel Goldwyn (/ˈɡoʊldwɪn/; born Szmuel Gelbfisz; Yiddish: שמואל געלבפֿיש; July 1879 (most likely; claimed to be August 27, 1882) - 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. He was best known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.[2] He was awarded the 1973 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award,[3] the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1947) and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1958).

## Early life

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Goldwyn was likely born in July 1879, although he claimed his birthday to be August 27, 1882. At the time, most Jews fabricated their ages to prevent future conscription for the Russian Empire.[4] He was born as Szmuel Gelbfisz[a] in Warsaw to Hasidic Jewish parents, Aaron Dawid Gelbfisz,[5] a peddler, and his wife, Hanna Frymet (née Fiszhaut).[6]

He left Warsaw penniless after his father's death and made his way to Hamburg. There he stayed with acquaintances of his family where he trained as a glove maker. On November 26, 1898, Gelbfisz left Hamburg for Birmingham, England, where he remained with relatives for six weeks under the name Samuel Goldfish. On January 4, 1899, he sailed from Liverpool, arrived in Philadelphia on January 19, and went to New York. He found work upstate in Gloversville, New York in the bustling glove business. Soon, his marketing skills made him a very successful salesman at the Elite Glove Company. After four years as vice-president of sales, he moved to New York City and settled at 10 West 61st Street.[7]

## Paramount

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Main article: Paramount Pictures

Samuel Goldwyn in 1919

In 1913, Goldwyn, along with his brother-in-law Jesse L. Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, and Arthur Friend formed a partnership, The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, to produce feature-length motion pictures. Film rights for a stage play, The Squaw Man, were purchased for $4,000 and Dustin Farnum was hired for the leading role. Shooting for the first feature film made in Hollywood began on December 29, 1913.[8]

In 1914, Paramount was a film exchange and exhibition corporation headed by W. W. Hodkinson. Looking for more movies to distribute, Paramount signed a contract with the Lasky Company on 1 June 1914 to supply 36 films per year. One of Paramount's other suppliers was Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Company. The two companies merged on 28 June 1916, forming the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation. Zukor had been quietly buying Paramount stock, and two weeks before the merger, became president of Paramount Pictures Corporation and had Hodkinson replaced with Hiram Abrams, a Zukor associate.[9]

With the merger, Zukor became president of Paramount and Famous Players–Lasky, Goldwyn was named chairman of the board of Famous Players–Lasky, and Jesse Lasky was the first vice-president. After a series of conflicts with Zukor, Goldwyn resigned as chairman, and as a member of the executive committee on September 14, 1916. Goldwyn was no longer an active member of management, although he still owned stock and was a member of the board of directors. Famous Players–Lasky later became part of Paramount Pictures Corporation, and Paramount became one of Hollywood's major studios.[10]

## Goldwyn Pictures

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In 1916, Goldwyn partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn,[11] using a combination of both names to call their film-making enterprise Goldwyn Pictures. Seeing an opportunity, he had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn in December 1918[7] and used this name for the rest of his life. Goldwyn Pictures proved successful, but it is their "Leo the Lion" trademark for which the company is remembered today.

After personality clashes, Samuel Goldwyn left the company in 1922. Godsol became chairman of the board and President of Goldwyn Pictures in 1922.[12] On April 10, 1924, Goldwyn Pictures was acquired by Marcus Loew and merged into his Metro Pictures Corporation, becoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Despite including his name, Samuel Goldwyn was never connected with ownership, management, or production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

## Samuel Goldwyn Productions

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From the trailer for The Hurricane (1937)

Main article: Samuel Goldwyn Productions

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.[citation needed]

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—who responded to him, "Don't you point that finger at me. I knew it when it had a thimble on it!"[13])

Goldwyn made numerous films during that time and reigned as Hollywood's most successful independent producer. Many of his films were forgettable; his collaboration with John Ford, however, resulted in a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Arrowsmith (1931). Goldwyn and Ford had another successful collaboration six years later with The Hurricane (1937). 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 (1946). Leading actors in several Goldwyn films, especially those directed by Wyler, were also Oscar-nominated for their performances. Throughout the 1930s, Goldwyn released all his films through United Artists; beginning in 1941 and continuing nearly to the end of his career, Goldwyn's films were distributed by RKO Pictures.

## Oscar triumph and later years

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See also: Academy Awards

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In 1946, the year he was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Goldwyn's drama, The Best Years of Our Lives, starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews, won the Academy Award for Best Picture.[14] In the 1950s, Samuel Goldwyn turned to make several musicals including Hans Christian Andersen (1952), his last with Danny Kaye, with whom he had made many others, and Guys and Dolls (1955) starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine, which was based on the successful Broadway musical. This was the only independent film that Goldwyn released through MGM.

In his final film, Samuel Goldwyn brought together African-American actors Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey in a film rendition of the George Gershwin opera, Porgy and Bess (1959). Released by Columbia Pictures, the film was nominated for three Oscars but won only one for Best Original Score. It was also a critical and financial failure, and the Gershwin family reportedly disliked the film and eventually pulled it from distribution. The film turned the opera into an operetta with spoken dialogue in between the musical numbers. Its reception was a major disappointment for Goldwyn, who, according to biographer Arthur Marx, saw it as his crowning glory and had wanted to film Porgy and Bess since he first saw it onstage in 1935.

Goldwyn's house at 1200 Laurel Lane in Beverly Hills was completed in 1934, designed by Douglas Honnold and George Vernon Russell. The Goldwyns hosted frequent social events at the house.[15]

## Awards

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* In 1957, Goldwyn was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes.
* On March 27, 1971, Goldwyn was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon.[16]

## Marriages

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In 1910, Goldwyn married Blanche Lasky, a sister of Jesse L. Lasky. The marriage produced a daughter. The couple divorced in 1915. In 1925, he married actress Frances Howard, to whom he remained married for the rest of his life. Their son, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., eventually joined his father in the business.[17]

Despite his marriages, Samuel Goldwyn was known as a ladies' man in social circles. Goldwyn Girl Jean Howard was quoted saying, "Sam Goldwyn was not a fellow to make a pass in public; he had too much taste for that," but his dalliances were many, even as his wife Frances Howard turned a blind eye.[18]

## Death

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Goldwyn died of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles in 1974. In the 1980s, the Samuel Goldwyn Studio was sold to Warner Bros. There is a theater named after him in Beverly Hills and he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1631 Vine Street for his contributions to motion pictures on February 8, 1960.[19][20]

## Descendants and relations

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### Grandchildren

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Samuel Goldwyn's grandchildren include:

* Francis Goldwyn, founder of the Manhattan Toy Company and managing member of Quorum Associates
* Tony Goldwyn, actor, producer, and director, best known for starring as President Fitzgerald Grant III in the TV series Scandal
* John Goldwyn, film producer
* Peter Goldwyn, the current president of Samuel Goldwyn Films
* Catherine Goldwyn, creator of Sound Art, a non-profit that teaches popular music all over Los Angeles
* Liz Goldwyn, with a film on HBO called Pretty Things, featuring interviews with queens from the heyday of American burlesque;[21] her book, an extension of the documentary titled Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens, was published in 2006 by HarperCollins[22]
* Rebecca Goldwyn (August 15, 1955 - September 1, 1955)

### Nephew

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Goldwyn's relatives include Fred Lebensold, an award-winning architect (best known as the designer of multiple concert halls in Canada and the United States). Fred was the son of Manya Lebensold, Sam's younger sister, who was murdered in the Holocaust, despite the best efforts of her brothers Sam and Ben in 1939–40 to extricate her from the Warsaw Ghetto.

## The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation

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Samuel Goldwyn's will created a multimillion-dollar charitable foundation in his name. Among other endeavors, the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation funds the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, provides construction funds for the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, and provides ongoing funding for the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital.

## The Samuel Goldwyn Company

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Main article: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Several years after the senior Goldwyn's death, his son, Samuel Jr., initiated an independent film and television distribution company dedicated to preserving the integrity of Goldwyn's ambitions and work. The company's assets were later acquired by Orion Pictures, and in 1997, passed on to Orion's parent company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Several years later, the Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Family Trust and Warner Bros. acquired the rights to all the Goldwyn-produced films except The Hurricane, which was returned to MGM subsidiary United Artists.

## Goldwynisms

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Goldwyn was also known for his malapropisms, paradoxes, and other speech errors called 'Goldwynisms' ("a humorous statement or phrase resulting from the use of incongruous or contradictory words, situations, idioms, etc.") and was frequently quoted. For example, he was reported to have said, "I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead."[23] and "Include me out." Some famous Goldwyn quotations are misattributions. For example, the statement attributed to Goldwyn that "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" is a well-documented misreporting of an actual quote praising the trustworthiness of a colleague: "His verbal contract is worth more than the paper it's written on". The identity of the colleague is variously reported as Joseph M. Schenck[24] or Joseph L. Mankiewicz.[25] Goldwyn himself was reportedly aware of—and pleased by—the misattribution.

Upon being told that a book he had purchased for filming, The Well of Loneliness, couldn't be filmed because it was about lesbians, he reportedly replied: "That's all right, we'll make them Hungarians." The same story was told about the 1934 rights to The Children's Hour with the response "That's okay; we'll turn them into Armenians."[26]

In the Grateful Dead's "Scarlet Begonias", the line "I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong" appears in the bridge. This is similar to Goldwyn's "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."[27]

## Notes

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1. ^ The sz-spelling is a not-uncommon Polish transliteration for the Yiddish sh-sound, which only requires a single letter in that language.

## References

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1. ^ "Samuel Goldwyn | American filmmaker and producer". Encyclopedia Britannica. 27 June 2023.
2. ^ Obituary, Variety, February 6, 1974, pg. 63.
3. ^ Jang, Meena (January 31, 2015). "Samuel Goldwyn: Remembering the Movie Mogul on the Anniversary of His Death". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
4. ^ Scott Berg, A. (August 2013). Goldwyn: A Biography. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4711-3006-9.
5. ^ "Grave in Warszawa". cemetery.jewish.org.pl.
6. ^ "Hannah Gelbfisz obituary". polona.pl (in Polish).
7. ^ a b Berg, A. Scott (1989). Goldwyn - A Biography. Penguin Putnam Inc; Riverhead Books. ISBN 1-57322-723-4.
8. ^ Berg, pp. 31–35, 41.
9. ^ Berg, pp. 49, 58.
10. ^ Berg, pp. 58–59, 63.
11. ^ Rogers, Will; Gragert, Steven K.; Johansson, M. Jane (May 1, 2001). The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908 – August 1915. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806133157. Retrieved October 7, 2018 - via Google Books.
12. ^ "Godsol Heads Goldwyn Pictures". The New York Times. March 11, 1922.
13. ^ Silverstein, Stuart Y., ed. (1996). Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker. New York: Scribner. p. 42, n. 75. ISBN 0-7432-1148-0.
14. ^ "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners." oscars.org. Retrieved: December 16, 2023.
15. ^ Berg, p. 246
16. ^ Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Richard Nixon. Government Printing Office. 1971. p. 490\. ISBN 0160588634. Retrieved 2013-04-01.
17. ^ Dagan, Carmel (9 January 2015). "Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Dies at 88". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
18. ^ Berg, A. Scott (1989). Goldwyn: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0-394-51059-3.
19. ^ "Samuel Goldwyn | Hollywood Walk of Fame". www.walkoffame.com. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
20. ^ "Samuel Goldwyn". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
21. ^ "Pretty Things". Liz Goldwyn Films. June 2, 2018. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
22. ^ Goldwyn, Liz (2006). Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780060889449. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
23. ^ Marx, Arthur (1976). "Prologue". Goldwyn: The Man Behind the Myth. Bodley Head. ISBN 9780370113258.
24. ^ Boller, Paul F.; George, John (1990). They Never Said It. Oxford University Press. p. 42\. ISBN 9780199879168.
25. ^ Easton, Carol (1976). The Search for Sam Goldwyn. Morrow. ISBN 9780688030070.[page needed]
26. ^ "These Three film profile". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
27. ^ "The Annotated 'Scarlet Begonias'". ucsc.edu. Retrieved June 2, 2018.

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* The Pest (1919)
* Slave of Desire (1923)
* Potash and Perlmutter (1923)
* The Eternal City (1923)
* Cytherea (1924)
* In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
* A Thief in Paradise (1925)
* His Supreme Moment (1925)
* The Dark Angel (1925)
* Stella Dallas (1925)
* The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
* Partners Again (1926)
* The Night of Love (1927)
* The Magic Flame (1927)
* The Devil Dancer (1927)
* Two Lovers (1928)
* The Awakening (1928)
* Condemned (1929)
* The Rescue (1929)
* This Is Heaven (1929)
* Bulldog Drummond (1929)
* Raffles (1930)
* Whoopee! (1930)
* The Devil to Pay! (1930)
* One Heavenly Night (1931)
* Street Scene (1931)
* Palmy Days (1931)
* The Unholy Garden (1931)
* Arrowsmith (1931)
* Tonight or Never (1931)
* The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)
* The Kid from Spain (1932)
* Cynara (1932)
* The Masquerader (1933)
* Roman Scandals (1933)
* We Live Again (1934)
* Nana (1934)
* Kid Millions (1934)
* The Dark Angel (1935)
* The Wedding Night (1935)
* Barbary Coast (1935)
* Splendor (1935)
* These Three (1936)
* Dodsworth (1936)
* Come and Get It (1936)
* Strike Me Pink (1936)
* Beloved Enemy (1936)
* Woman Chases Man (1937)
* Stella Dallas (1937)
* Dead End (1937)
* The Hurricane (1937)
* The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
* The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
* The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
* They Shall Have Music (1939)
* Wuthering Heights (1939)
* The Real Glory (1939)
* The Westerner (1940)
* The Little Foxes (1941)
* Ball of Fire (1941)
* The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
* They Got Me Covered (1943)
* The North Star (1943)
* Up in Arms (1944)
* The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
* Wonder Man (1945)
* The Kid From Brooklyn (1946)
* The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
* The Bishop's Wife (1947)
* The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
* A Song Is Born (1948)
* Enchantment (1948)
* Roseanna McCoy (1949)
* My Foolish Heart (1949)
* Our Very Own (1950)
* Edge of Doom (1950)
* I Want You (1951)
* Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
* Guys and Dolls (1955)
* Porgy and Bess (1959)

Awards for Samuel Goldwyn

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* Cecil B. DeMille (1951)
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* James Stewart (1964)
* John Wayne (1965)
* Charlton Heston (1966)
* Kirk Douglas (1967)
* Gregory Peck (1968)
* Joan Crawford (1969)
* Frank Sinatra (1970)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1971)
* Samuel Goldwyn (1972)
* Bette Davis (1973)
* Hal B. Wallis (1974)
* No Award (1975)
* Walter Mirisch (1976)
* Red Skelton (1977)
* Lucille Ball (1978)
* Henry Fonda (1979)
* Gene Kelly (1980)
* Sidney Poitier (1981)
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* Paul Newman (1983)
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* Doris Day (1988)
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* Jack Lemmon (1990)
* Robert Mitchum (1991)
* Lauren Bacall (1992)
* Robert Redford (1993)
* Sophia Loren (1994)
* Sean Connery (1995)
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* Shirley MacLaine (1997)
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* Al Pacino (2000)
* Harrison Ford (2001)
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* Michael Douglas (2003)
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* No Award (2007)
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* No Award (2021)
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Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

* Darryl F. Zanuck (1938)
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* David O. Selznick (1940)
* Walt Disney (1942)
* Sidney Franklin (1943)
* Hal B. Wallis (1944)
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* Samuel Goldwyn (1947)
* Jerry Wald (1949)
* Darryl F. Zanuck (1951)
* Arthur Freed (1952)
* Cecil B. DeMille (1953)
* George Stevens (1954)
* Buddy Adler (1957)
* Jack L. Warner (1959)
* Stanley Kramer (1962)
* Sam Spiegel (1964)
* William Wyler (1966)
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* Alfred Hitchcock (1968)
* Ingmar Bergman (1971)
* Lawrence Weingarten (1974)
* Mervyn LeRoy (1976)
* Pandro S. Berman (1977)
* Walter Mirisch (1978)
* Ray Stark (1980)
* Albert R. Broccoli (1982)
* Steven Spielberg (1987)
* Billy Wilder (1988)
* David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck (1991)
* George Lucas (1992)
* Clint Eastwood (1995)
* Saul Zaentz (1997)
* Norman Jewison (1999)
* Warren Beatty (2000)
* Dino De Laurentiis (2001)
* John Calley (2009)
* Francis Ford Coppola (2010)
* Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall (2018)
* Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson (2024)

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Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

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