Samuel Goldwyn Studio

Hollywood backlot

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Samuel Goldwyn Studio

Entrance to The Lot

Company type| Film studio
Predecessor| United Artists
Fate| Folded into Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Successor| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Headquarters| West Hollywood, California

Key people

| Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Samuel Goldwyn
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks hang the entrance signs for their Pickford–Fairbanks Studios in Hollywood

Samuel Goldwyn Studio was the name that Samuel Goldwyn used to refer to the lot located on the corner of Formosa Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, as well as the offices and stages that his company, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, rented there during the 1920s and 1930s. At various times, the location was also known as Pickford–Fairbanks Studios, the United Artists Studio, Warner Hollywood Studios, and its name since 1999, The Lot.[1]

## History

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Originally controlled by independent producer Jesse D. Hampton, the site was acquired by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks and dubbed Pickford–Fairbanks Studios in 1919.[2] It was later renamed the United Artists Studio in 1928, as it was being used by several independent producers, including Samuel Goldwyn, that distributed through United Artists. Although Goldwyn did not control the deed for the land, he and Joseph Schenck built many of the facilities on the lot.[3]

Schenck left United Artists in 1935, leaving his share of the deed to Goldwyn, and Fairbanks died in 1939, leaving his share to Pickford. When Goldwyn left United Artists in 1940, he sought to rename the lot Samuel Goldwyn Studio. Pickford and Goldwyn fought over the name and ownership of the property until a court ordered that the lot be auctioned in 1955.

James Mulvey, Goldwyn's most trusted business confidant and president of Samuel Goldwyn Inc., outbid Pickford for the property.[4] The lot officially became Samuel Goldwyn Studio and remained so until Warner Bros. purchased the site in 1980, naming it Warner Hollywood Studios.[5]

Warner Bros. sold the property in 1999, and the name was officially changed to its longtime nickname, The Lot. In 2012, the owners demolished several of the Pickford and Goldwyn era buildings and replaced them with new buildings.

## Awards

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The sound department of the studio was awarded with the Academy Award for Best Sound for the film In the Heat of the Night (1967).[6]

## See also

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* Formosa Cafe
* Goldwyn Pictures
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
* United Artists
* Samuel Goldwyn Productions
* The Samuel Goldwyn Company
* Samuel Goldwyn Films
* Samuel Goldwyn Television

## References

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1. ^ "The Lot (formerly Warner Hollywood Studios)". Seeing-stars.com. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
2. ^ "Pickford–Fairbanks Studios". Silentgents.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
3. ^ "Samuel Goldwyn: Hollywood's Lone Wolf". Cobbles.com. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
4. ^ "The Lot: A legendary studio of independent production in classic Hollywood". Cobbles.com. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
5. ^ "WARNER HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS GENERAL INFORMATION". Replay.waybackmachine.org. 2009-06-03. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved 2011-04-01.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
6. ^ "The 40th Academy Awards (1968) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-08-25.

## External links

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* Official website

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* Bernard B. Brown (1939)
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* Franklin Milton (1966)
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* Tom Fleischman and John Midgley (2011)
* Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, and Simon Hayes (2012)
* Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, and Chris Munro (2013)
* Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, and Thomas Curley (2014)
* Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff, and Ben Osmo (2015)
* Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace (2016)
* Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, and Gary Rizzo (2017)
* Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, and John Casali (2018)
* Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson (2019)
* Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, and Michelle Couttolenc (2020)
* Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, and Ron Bartlett (2021)
* Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor (2022)
* Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn (2023)

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