Samuel Goldwyn

In this article: Ragtime, Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, Orchestration, Harry Houdini, Broadway, and E. L. Doctorow

...young man, offers to finance her education. Complications arise when Richard meets Lotta and takes a strong interest in her himself. Samuel Goldwyn paid $150,000 for the screen rights to the Edna Ferber novel, who sold it to him confident he...

In this article: Howard Hawks, Edna Ferber, William Wyler, Come and Get It, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, and Edward Arnold

...makes it a significant improvement on the Hollywood treatment from the '80s… The earnest TV-movie-like American Violet (Samuel Goldwyn) is guilty of putting the message before the medium, but the message remains powerful. The false...

In this article: DVD, Sam Raimi, Evil Dead, Universal, Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Sandra Bullock, Green Card, American Violet, and Drag Me to Hell

...1937. Producer Mervyn LeRoy had dreamed of adapting "Oz," since he was 15, and he persuaded Mayer to buy the rights from Samuel Goldwyn for $75,000. The picture was set up at MGM in January 1938, despite ongoing worries from the studios over...

In this article: Oz, The Wizard of Oz, Wizard, L. Frank Baum, DVD, Wicked Witch of the West, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Louis B. Mayer, and MGM

"I never put on a pair of shoes unless I've worn them at least five years." -- movie mogul Sam Goldwyn. A good partner is as comfortable as an old shoe, but it may take time to break him in. Years are needed to build trust; great...

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David Strathairn and Paul Giamatti (Samuel Goldwyn) "Cold Souls" is hot stuff. It centers on a New York actor named Paul Giamatti and played by Paul Giamatti. While experiencing spiritual fatigue during rehearsals for Chekhov's "Uncle...

In this article: Paul Giamatti, Sideways, Uncle Vanya, New Yorker magazine, and Dostoyevsky

...columnist Hedda Hopper, encountering Schulberg in a Hollywood restaurant, huffed, "How dare you?" A furious Samuel Goldwyn, for whom Schulberg was then working as a screenwriter, fired him because of "that horrible book." MGM studio...

In this article: B.P. Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run, Budd Schulberg, Academy Awards, On the Waterfront, Hollywood, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, and Eva Marie Saint

...wrote the New York World-Telegram. Dorothy Parker and Damon Runyon were also admirers. But, inevitably, Schulberg made enemies. Samuel Goldwyn fired him, and Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, said Schulberg should be "deported." John Wayne...

In this article: Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront, Hollywood, What Makes Sammy Run, Academy Awards, New York City, and The Harder They Fall

Road drama stars William Hurt, Maria Bello Samuel Goldwyn has picked up Sundance pic "The Yellow Handkerchief." Udayan Prasad directed and Arthur Cohn produced the road drama, which stars William Hurt, Maria Bello and Kristen Stewart as...

In this article: Arthur Cohn, Maria Bello, William Hurt, American Dream, Central Station, and Kristen Stewart

...Follies" represents a particularly memorable skirmish in Hollywood's continuing battle between high art and low. Its producer, Samuel Goldwyn, was an independent operator who had learned to balance prestige dramas adapted from best-selling...

In this article: The Goldwyn Follies, Sonja Henie, George Balanchine, William A. Seiter, Gregg Toland, Vera Zorina, Ira Gershwin, and Hollywood