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Samuel Goldwyn is a Actor, Director, Producer and Presenter Polonais born on 17 august 1879 at Warsaw (Pologne)

Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn
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Birth name Schmuel Gelbfisz
Nationality Pologne
Birth 17 august 1879 at Warsaw (Pologne)
Death 31 january 1974 (at 94 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz (Yiddish: שמואל גלבפֿיש); c. July 1879 – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was an American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.

Biography

Sous le nom de Samuel Goldfish, il crée la Goldwyn Pictures en 1916 en partenariat avec deux entrepreneurs de Broadway, Edgar et Archibald Selwyn : le nom Goldwyn est né de la contraction entre Goldfish et Selwyn.

La Goldwyn Pictures introduit très tôt la mythique séquence avant-film de Leo The Lion, celle du lion rugissant, qui deviendra l'image de marque de producteur cinématographique la plus célèbre au monde, ou du moins la plus ancienne encore en usage.

Sam fut assez rapidement écarté par ses partenaires qui finissent par vendre la Goldwyn Pictures à la Schubert Organization laquelle revend celle-ci à la Metro de Marcus Loew. En 1925, la naissance de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer n'a donc que peu à voir avec Samuel Goldwyn sauf que le nouveau studio conserve la séquence de Leo The Lion et surtout, quelques terrains situés à Culver City (Californie) ayant jadis appartenu à Sam.

Entretemps, ayant récupéré ses fonds, Samuel Goldwyn lance en 1923 ses propres studios : Samuel Goldwyn Productions (SGP).

Son studio, adoubé par la critique pour ses choix qualitatifs, fut infiniment respecté jusqu'en 1959, date à laquelle Samuel Goldwyn pris sa retraite.

Les films produits par Samuel Goldwyn Productions furent successivement distribués par l'Associated First National, puis par la United Artists et enfin à partir de 1941, par la RKO Radio Pictures.

Dans les années 1940-1950, Sam offrit à John Ford et Howard Hawks l'occasion de réaliser leurs meilleurs films.

Il se marie en 1925 avec Frances Howard : leur fils, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (1926-2015) devient également producteur et fonde en 1979 The Samuel Goldwyn Company (SGC).

Le producteur délégué de Showtime, John Howard Goldwyn, est le petit-fils de Samuel Goldwyn.

Best films

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
(Producer)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
(Producer)
Dodsworth (1936)
(Producer)
Arrowsmith (1931)
(Producer)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
(Producer)
The Magic Flame (1927)
(Producer)

Usually with

Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland
(39 films)
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman
(36 films)
Richard Day
Richard Day
(35 films)
George Barnes
George Barnes
(17 films)
Daniel Mandell
Daniel Mandell
(26 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Samuel Goldwyn (135 films)

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Actor

We Live Again, 1h25
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Anna Sten, Fredric March, C. Aubrey Smith, Sam Jaffe, Crauford Kent, Dale Fuller
Rating62% 3.1474353.1474353.1474353.1474353.147435
Russian Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov (Fredric March) seduces innocent young Katusha Maslova (Anna Sten), a servant to his aunts. After they spend the night together in the greenhouse, Dmitri leaves the next morning, outraging Katusha by not leaving a note for her, only money. When she becomes pregnant, she is fired, and when the baby is born, it dies and is buried unbaptized. Katusha then goes to Moscow, where she falls into a life of prostitution, poverty and degradation.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 3h14
Directed by Rex Ingram, Rex Ingram, Fred Niblo, Christy Cabanne, Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Ramón Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell, Kathleen Key
Roles Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.895863.895863.895863.895863.89586
Ben-Hur is a wealthy Jew and boyhood friend of the powerful Roman Tribune, Messala. When an accident leads to Ben-Hur's arrest, Messala, who has become corrupt and arrogant, makes sure Ben-Hur and his family are jailed and separated.

Director

The Princess and the Pirate, 1h34
Directed by David Butler, Samuel Goldwyn, Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Walter Slezak, Victor McLaglen, Marc Lawrence
Rating67% 3.397543.397543.397543.397543.39754
A pirate captain known as the Hook (Victor McLaglen) buries his treasure on an island and kills the map maker so no one else will find it. He and his cut-throat crew go after the Mary Ann, a ship on which Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) is running away from her father, the King (Robert Warwick), so she can marry a commoner. The Hook plans to hold her for a large ransom. A cowardly actor, Sylvester the Great (Hope), is in the cabin next door to Margaret. The Hook's ship, The Avenger attacks the Mary Ann and after a big fight, the crew are killed or made to walk the plank by the pirates. Sylvester escapes by disguising himself as a gypsy woman and is taken on board The Avenger with Margaret.
The Wedding Night, 1h23
Directed by Ralph Bellamy, Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Samuel Goldwyn, King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Brennan, Helen Vinson, Sig Ruman
Rating65% 3.2922453.2922453.2922453.2922453.292245
New York novelist Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife Dora (Helen Vinson) have accumulated serious debts as a result of their fast and affluent lifestyle in the big city. When he approaches his publisher expecting an advance on his newest novel, Tony is told that success has gone to his head and the novel is unpublishable. With few options available, Tony and Dora move to his family's run-down farm in Connecticut, where they meet his neighbors, a Polish farmer, Jan Novak (Sig Ruman), and his beautiful daughter, Manya (Anna Sten). Looking to expand his own property, Mr. Novak offers Tony $5,000 for a field bordering the Novak farm. With their finances replenished, Dora returns to New York, leaving Tony at the farm, where he intends to write a new novel inspired by the Novaks and their friends.
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Directed by Henry King, Samuel Goldwyn, Frances Marion
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper, Charles Lane, Charles Lane, Clyde Wilfred Cook
Rating68% 3.440673.440673.440673.440673.44067
Jefferson Worth trouve une orpheline dans le désert et l'élève comme sa propre fille. Devenue jeune femme, Barbara est aimée de Abe Lee, le contremaître de son père adoptif. Lorsque Greenfield, un riche entrepreneur, arrive avec des plans pour irriguer le désert, Worth se joint à lui dans cette opération. Le fils adoptif de Greenfield, Willard Holmes, un ingénieur, arrive de la côte Est et tombe lui aussi amoureux de Barbara et une rivalité se développe entre Abe et lui.

Producer

Porgy and Bess, 2h18
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Brock Peters
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.493583.493583.493583.493583.49358
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully. While high on cocaine supplied by Sportin' Life, Crown kills Robbins after the latter vanquishes him in a craps game; Bess urges Crown to flee. Sportin' Life suggests she accompany him to New York City, an offer Bess declines. She seeks refuge with her neighbors, all of whom refuse to help her. Porgy finally agrees to let her stay with him.
Guys and Dolls, 2h23
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye
Roles Producer
Rating70% 3.546293.546293.546293.546293.54629
Although there are detail differences between the stage and movie versions, the plot is essentially based on the activities of New York petty criminals and professional gamblers in the late 1940s.
Brooba
Brooba (1955)
, 1h28
Directed by Shigeyoshi Suzuki
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Woody Strode, George Barrows
Roles Production Consultant
Rating27% 1.378761.378761.378761.378761.37876
Hans Christian Andersen, 1h52
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Mermaids in film, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Joseph Walsh, Philip Tonge, Erik Bruhn, John Qualen
Roles Producer
Rating67% 3.395553.395553.395553.395553.39555
In the 1830s, in the small Danish town of Odense, cobbler Hans Christian Andersen spends his day spinning fairy tales for the village children, teaching them lessons about pride, humility, love and growing up through his fanciful characters. One day, the stern schoolmaster, who believes Hans is wasting his pupils' precious time, implores the Burgomaster and councilmen to curtail the cobbler's habit of distracting the students with his storytelling, but even the adult citizens easily become a rapt audience for Hans' fables. Hans finally agrees to stop distracting the children and returns to his shop, where his teenage assistant, the orphan Peter, begs him to stop causing trouble. However, later that day Hans is drawn back to the schoolhouse to see the children. As he hears the schoolchildren drone mathematical phrases, he compares an inchworm's myopic measuring of beautiful blossoms to the schoolmaster's blindness to beauty and creativity. On yet another day, when the children do not arrive at the sound of the school bell, the schoolmaster deduces that Hans is again distracting his pupils. When the schoolmaster then demands that the Burgomaster and the councilmen choose between him and the cobbler, they decide that Hans must leave Odense. Peter, who has witnessed the verdict, returns to the shop and secretly tries to save his friend from the shame of being exiled by eagerly suggesting Hans travel to Copenhagen. After much prodding, Peter succeeds in convincing Hans to leave that afternoon by reminding him that he will be the envy of the town for having been the first to visit the famous city. Soon after Hans begins his journey, Peter joins him on the trail, bringing all the shop's tools to start their business anew.
I Want You
I Want You (1951)
, 1h42
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger, Peggy Dow, Robert Keith, Mildred Dunnock
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.2451353.2451353.2451353.2451353.245135
In the "early summer of 1950", Martin Greer owns a small construction company. An Army combat engineer for four years during World War II, he and wife Nancy have two young children. George Kress asks Martin to write a letter to the Selective Service System stating that his son, George Jr., is "indispensable" for their company and thus exempt from the draft. Martin refuses, and George Jr. joins the Army as the Korean War begins.
Edge of Doom, 1h39
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith, Paul Stewart, Mala Powers
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.1939753.1939753.1939753.1939753.193975
The story concerns a young mentally disturbed man, Martin Lynn (Farley Granger), who goes on a rampage after his sick mother dies. One of the man's biggest beefs is with the Catholic Church who, in addition to slighting him when his mother needed a priest, once refused to bury his father years earlier because he committed suicide. The man, blaming the environment he lives in, goes on a rampage taking revenge on his cheap boss, a mortician and a priest, Father Kirkman (Harold Vermilyea), who refuses to give his poor mother a big funeral. He begins his rampage by killing the hard-line Catholic priest, who slighted him, by beating him with a heavy crucifix. Later, another young priest, Father Roth (Dana Andrews), suspects the young man, now arrested for another crime, for the killing.
Our Very Own, 1h33
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak, Donald Cook
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.3412153.3412153.3412153.3412153.341215
Los Angeles teenager Gail Macaulay is going steady with deliveryman Chuck, a relationship that sparks jeaolusy in her younger sister Joan. When Joan needs her birth certificate in order to obtain summer employment, her mother Lois tells her to look in a box in her dresser, where the girl discovers Gail's adoption papers.
Roseanna McCoy, 1h40
Directed by Nicholas Ray, Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Charles Bickford, Raymond Massey, Aline MacMahon, Richard Basehart
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.859252.859252.859252.859252.85925
Set in the late 19th century, the story focuses on the forbidden romance between the title character and Johnse Hatfield, whose families have been feuding for many years. The two meet when she is stung by a hornet while picking flowers for a picnic table at the local fair and he comes to her aid. When she discovers his identity, she angrily accuses his clan of having shot and injured her mother in the distant past. Johnse protests that Mounts, who was responsible for the accident, was innocent by reason of insanity, but Roseanna wants no part of him.