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Robert Goldstein (died April 1974) was an American film producer who was briefly head of production at 20th Century Fox. Goldstein began as a Broadway producer and entered the film industry in 1940. He was a producer for Universal‐International and Warner Brothers.
Robert Goldstein was born on 28 May 1903 in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. He was a producer, known for Black Tuesday (1954), Crime of Passion (1956) and Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969). He died on 6 April 1974 in London, England, UK.
- Producer
- May 28, 1903
- Robert Goldstein
- April 6, 1974
Robert Goldstein. Writer: The Spirit of '76. The son of a German immigrant, Robert Goldstein was the owner of a business in Los Angeles that supplied costumes to the emerging movie industry. He wanted to try his hand at film producing, spending $200,000 to produce an ultra-patriotic movie, THE SPIRIT OF '76.
- Robert Goldstein
- September 21, 1883
Robert Goldstein. Writer: The Spirit of '76. The son of a German immigrant, Robert Goldstein was the owner of a business in Los Angeles that supplied costumes to the emerging movie industry. He wanted to try his hand at film producing, spending $200,000 to produce an ultra-patriotic movie, THE SPIRIT OF '76.
- A Poorly Timed Epic↑
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Robert Goldstein (1883-?), a son of German Jewish immigrants, opened a branch of his family’s costume firm in Los Angeles in 1912 to supply wardrobes to the burgeoning film industry. Following the success of David Wark Griffith’s (1875-1948) Birth of a Nation (1915), for which he was both the costumer and an investor, Goldstein sought to produce a ...
Goldstein was arrested for violating the Espionage Act (enacted on 15 June 1917). On 4 December 1917, a federal grand jury indicted him on three counts, charging that he had willfully attempted to cause insubordination among United States military forces by inciting hatred of Britain and its soldiers, and that he had done so to aid the German gover...
The severe sentence and resulting bankruptcy of Goldstein’s company sent a strong signal to the wartime movie industry that it should avoid making films that could run afoul of the government’sstrictures against unfavorable depictions of the country’s allies. In his landmark study establishing modern First Amendment theory, Freedom of Speech (1920)...
Robert Goldstein may refer to: Robert Goldstein (producer) (died 1974), American film producer. Robert Goldstein, producer and writer of the 1917 film The Spirit of '76. Robert J. Goldstein, American conspirator.
Jun 13, 2000 · Robert Goldstein ran a costume shop in Los Angeles that supplied the nascent Hollywood movie industry. Among his clients was D.W. Griffith, who invited Goldstein to invest in The Birth of a...
