Word: goldwynisms
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Samuel Goldwyn (originally Samuel Goldfish), cinema producer: "The Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (formerly headed by me) unsuccessfully sought an injunction restraining me from using my name in any private cinema enterprise. The name is legally my own, although I was born 'Goldfish' and later acquired the 'Goldwyn' by process of combining the first syllable of my name with the last syllable of the surname of Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, my business associates...
...three years) would be entitled Stepping Stones and that the comedian's daughter, Dorothy, would make her debut in the cast. Despatches from Rome indicate that the filming of The Eternal City (from Hall Caine's novel) is attracting masses of curious natives. The cast transported by Goldwyn for this ambitious venture includes Barbara LaMarr, Richard Bennett, Lionel Barrymore, Montague Love, Bert Lytell. A particularly interested spectator is Irene Fenwick who, about to marry Lionel Barrymore, accompanied the expedition to Italy...
Vanity Fair. Mabel Ballin plays " Becky Sharp " with all the vapid fascination of a nurse girl enlisting a park policeman for the evening. Accordingly Goldwyn's eight reel production of Vanity Fair is rather gruesome. One can only hope that Thackeray is sufficiently diverted by his celestial activities to omit a mundane interlude for inspection of the ruin of his novel in the motion picture galleries...
Hall Caine, British novelist: "Harvey Fly, an American, is suing me for $5,000 as commission on the sale of the film rights of The Master of Man to the Goldwyn Co. The sale price was $50,000 and he contends that $5,000 is a fair commission...