Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn · Arts & Literature
Pioneering film producer whose companies helped form Paramount and MGM
1879, Warsaw, Poland (Russian Empire) — 1974, Los Angeles, United States
Poland · United Kingdom · United States
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Samuel Goldwyn was a pioneering film producer whose successive companies fed into the founding of Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and who then ran a long, prestigious independent production career. Born Szmuel Gelbfisz to a Jewish family in Warsaw, he emigrated alone as a youth through Britain to the United States. He was one of the Jewish immigrant moguls who built the Hollywood studio system.
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Source: Neal Gabler, 'An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood' (1988)
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Pioneering film producer whose companies helped form Paramount and MGM
Source: Neal Gabler, 'An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood' (1988)
