Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when Wellman and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock were famed for their trick of flying low over German towns and firing their machine guns at church bells. Said Pershing: "Why, Bill...
...line executives, representing all of Hollywood's eight major producing companies, gathered in the office of Tsar Will Hays for the most impressive powwow of cinema bigwigs in a decade. Present were: Barney Balaban (Paramount), Nate J. Blumberg (Universal), Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn (Columbia), Samuel Goldwyn, Maurice Silverstone (United Artists), Nicholas M. Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), Sidney R. Kent, Joseph M. Schenck (Twentieth Century-Fox), Leo Spitz (RKO Radio), Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner (Warner Bros.), Will H. Hays...
Listen, Darling (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Adolescent romance between Freddie Bartholomew, now 14½ and equipped with a changing voice, and Judy Garland, in a story by Katharine Brush...
HOLLYWOOD--Samuel Goldwyn, the movie producer, was recovering today from the shock of a Scottish collegiate prank which carried farther than its authors anticipated. Goldwyn was advised today that he had been nominated for the position of Lord Rector of Glasgow University. Careful checkups with London officials seemed to substantiate the notification. Then cable dispatches from Glasgow disclosed the Goldwyn nomination was part of the annual student fun-making which accompanies nomination of a rector. They also had nominated Haile Solassic...
...felt the stinging fingertips of the Atlantic hurricane, shivered through the last scenes of Big Blow when a Florida hurricane whistled and tore across the stage, left it in darkness, crumpled a huge revival tent like a paper bag. As exciting as superb sound effects (lent by Samuel Goldwyn) could make it, the big blow should rank among the season's tensest moments of "theatre...