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  1. 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.

  2. Samuel Goldwyn Productions. Samuel Goldwyn Productions was an American film production company founded by Samuel Goldwyn in 1923, and active through 1959. Personally controlled by Goldwyn and focused on production rather than distribution, the company developed into the most financially and critically successful independent production company ...

  3. 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. Descendants and relations Grandchildren. Samuel Goldwyn's grandchildren include:

  4. Samuel Goldwyn dies and the studio is transferred to his widow, Frances. 1976 Frances Goldwyn dies and the studio is bequeathed to the Motion Picture and Television Fund. 1980 The studio is sold to Warner Bros and renamed Warner Hollywood Studios (at the request of the Goldwyn Company), acting as an 11 acre sister studio to Warner Bros in ...

  5. The lot provided a home for many independent production companies over the years, and continued to be known as the Samuel Goldwyn Studio until 1980. Among the famous movies filmed there were Wuthering Heights (1939), Some Like It Hot (1959), and West Side Story (1959). Television producers also called the studio home, including Sid & Marty Krofft.

  6. Jun 27, 2024 · Samuel Goldwyn (born July 1879, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire—died Jan. 31, 1974, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) was a pioneer American filmmaker and one of Hollywood’s most prominent producers for more than 30 years. Orphaned as a child, Goldwyn emigrated first to London and eventually to a small town in New York state, where he worked in a ...

  7. 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 ...

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