IMDb: Samuel Goldwyn Acquires North America Rights to WestEnd Films’ Holiday Comedy ‘Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint’ (Exclusive)
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Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn was a Polish-born American film producer and pioneer in the American film industry, who produced the United States's first major motion picture. He was best known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios. He was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1973), the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1947), and the Jean Hersholt Humanit…
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culture · Polish–American film producer (1882–1974) · film producer · writer · also Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldfish, Szmuel Gelbfisz, Goldwyn
Born 17 August 1882 · Died 31 January 1974 · Q72579
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2026· 3 entries
MUNDIARIO: Samuel Goldwyn adquiere la comedia navideña Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
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Yahoo: Samuel Goldwyn Films Names Susan Posner Head Of Worldwide Strategy & Sales
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Meyer Gottlieb, Samuel Goldwyn Films Co-Founder and Producer of ‘Master and Commander,’ Dies at 86
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Deadline.com: Meyer Gottlieb Dies: Samuel Goldwyn Films Chief, ‘Master And Commander’ Producer & Holocaust Survivor Was 86
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insider.si.edu: The Samuel Goldwyn Motion Picture Production of Porgy and Bess
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2024· 3 entries
Deadline.com: Samuel Goldwyn Takes North American Rights To TIFF Action-Drama ‘William Tell’ With Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Golshifteh Farahani & More
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Released album “Behind the Screen”.
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Variety: ‘Somm: Cup of Salvation’ Acquired By Samuel Goldwyn Films (EXCLUSIVE)
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2022· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Samuel Goldwyn Films Acquires LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM
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2021· 1 entry
AOL: Samuel Goldwyn Films Adds ‘Christmas at Cattle Hill’ to ‘Another Round’-Led Distribution Slate (EXCLUSIVE)
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2010· 1 entry
IndieWire: Samuel Goldwyn Films To Release Venice Winner “The Double Hour”
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1997· 1 entry
Passed on to Orion's parent company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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1974· 11 entries
Died 1974-01-31.
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“If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.”
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“I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.”
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“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
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“A Hospital is no place to be sick.”
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“Flashbacks are a thing of the past.”
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“God makes stars. I just produce them.”
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“If I look confused it's because I'm thinking”
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“It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.”
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“From success you get lots of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.”
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“I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth — even though it costs him his job.”
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1971· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Richard Nixon (1971).
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Goldwyn was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1958).
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1957· 1 entry
Goldwyn was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes
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1946· 1 entry
The year he was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the Irving G
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1941· 1 entry
And continuing nearly to the end of his career, Goldwyn's films were distributed by RKO Pictures
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1937· 1 entry
“When Sam Goldwyn can with great convictioninstruct Anna Sten in diction,then Anna shows,Anything goes!”
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1934· 1 entry
Designed by Douglas Honnold and George Vernon Russell
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1925· 1 entry
Married actress Frances Howard, to whom he remained married for the rest of his life
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1924· 1 entry
Goldwyn Pictures was acquired by Marcus Loew and merged into his Metro Pictures Corporation, becoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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1923· 1 entry
As a production-only operation (with no distribution arm)
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1916· 1 entry
Goldwyn partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their film-making enterprise Goldwyn Pictures
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1914· 1 entry
Paramount was a film exchange and exhibition corporation headed by W
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1913· 1 entry
Goldwyn, along with his brother-in-law Jesse L
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1910· 1 entry
Goldwyn married Blanche Lasky, a sister of Jesse L
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1899· 1 entry
Sailed from Liverpool, arrived in Philadelphia on January 19, and went to New York
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1898· 1 entry
Gelbfisz left Hamburg for Birmingham, England, where he remained with relatives for six weeks under the name Samuel Goldfish
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-08-17.
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