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5 days ago · Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed the official trailer for a new WWII historical drama titled Escape from Germany, made by a Mormon filmmaker named T.C. Christensen.
5 days ago · The company met the new challenge of sound films in the 1930s with the talents of such producers as Samuel Goldwyn, Howard Hughes, and Alexander Korda.
2 days ago · Though major American film studios passed on the project, newly established independent distributor The Samuel Goldwyn Company acquired the distribution rights to the film and soon spent a record $24 million promoting it.
19 hours ago · The Samuel Goldwyn Company Fear of a Black Hat (1994) Starring Rusty Cundieff, who also wrote and directed, ...
1 day ago · In 1913 Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Arthur Freed, and Samuel Goldwyn formed Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company (later Paramount Pictures). DeMille produced The Squaw Man in a barn one block from present-day Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, and more box-office successes soon followed.
- Hollywood is a district within the city of Los Angeles, whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. It is also called Tinseltown.
- Hollywood is in Los Angeles, California. Lying northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beve...
- Hollywood was laid out as a subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, who was a prohibitionist from Kansas. However, real-estate magnate H.J. Whitley t...
- Daeida Wilcox gave Hollywood its name. She was the wife of Harvey Wilcox, who owned the area and in 1887 submitted a subdivision map to the Los Ang...
- The iconic Hollywood sign was originally erected in 1923. However, the sign did not read “Hollywood” but “Hollywoodland”; its purpose was advertisi...
4 days ago · Samuel Goldwyn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios) and Adolph Zucker (Paramount) both studied in their youth at European yeshivot, religious training schools. 31 Jewish actors like Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, Groucho Marx, Dinah Shore, and Danny Kaye joined directors, cinematographers, and writers in making a major mark on popular culture. Still, many movies, as with those that dealt with Catholicism, downplayed religious differences and uniqueness and focused instead on assimilation and ...
5 days ago · It's hard to remember a time when Samuel L. Jackson wasn't a major movie star, but in the 1970s and '80s, the iconic actor was racking up bit parts in big titles, including Eddie Murphy's Coming...