Goldwyn: Film Empire Builder Lover of Israel
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Nelson & Ann Dembs Say:
ETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Marc h 1, 1974-27
TED
Friday,
a frightening image of the i nfatuated with the cinema,
Prussian officer in World t hat he never left his newly-
chosen profession as a pro-
War II.
Goldwyn had seen oppres- ducer. In July of 1916, when
have to die," Samuel Gold-
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wyn replied to a question sion and witnessed pogroms Lasky merged with Zukor's
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from an East Indian corres- in his early childhood. Born Famous Players to lay the
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pondent during a press con- in Warsaw, Aug. 27, 1882, son cornerstone to Paramount
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ference in his private office of Abraham and Hannah Pictures, Goldwyn sold his
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while "Porgy and Bess" was Goldfisch, he ran away from share for $900,000.
The same year, the name
COMPLETE FAMILY— r. in production in December of home at the age of 11, spent
1958. The woman reporter some time in Hamburg to of Goldwyn appeared in print
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was voicing regret that the earn for a trip to England as a composite of Goldfisch
Mon. thru Thurs., 11:30-11:30 p.m.
colorful "Catfish Row" set on and joined relatives in Man- and Selwyn, with Edgar and
Fri. and Sat., 11:30-1:30 a.m.
the Goldwyn stage had been chester. He could not subor- Archibald Selwyn becoming
Sundays 3:00.10:00 p.m.
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wrecked to make room for dinate himself long in the - vice-presidents of Goldwyn
For
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menial job of a blacksmith Pictures Corp. In 1918, Gold-
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Goldwyn died in his sleep apprentice. At 13, he arrived wyn selected for filmization
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Anatole France's* "Thais,"
Jan. 31. He had made his in steerage in New York.
For his education Goldwyn thereby introducing on the
last publid appearance in
December 1968, at a ban- relied on one year of night screen famed stage actress
quet at the Beverly Hilton school. At the age of 30, he Mary Garden. A year later,
Hotel sponsored by the Amer- became his own boss as one Goldwyn formed Eminent
ican Jewish Congress as trib- of the top glove salesmen in Authors Pictures, Inc., a sub-
ute to the pioneer film maker the country. He visited his sidiary of his company to de-
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and to Jack Valenti, head of widowed mother in Poland velop screen stories from
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the Motion Picture Associa- several times before the out- classics of literature and
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break of World War I.
from the pen of contemporary
tion.
At a time when the intelli- writers, such as Robert Sher-
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Goldwyn deserved the hon-
or for his humanitarian ef- gentsia had not yet overcome wood, Ben Hecht, Rupert
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forts and for his constant the peculiar prejudice against Hughes and Sinclair Lewis.
support for the State of Is- "flickers," Goldwyn. was in- In April 1921, G o I dw y n
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rael. It was Goldwyn who in- spired by Broncho Billy's brought the German avant-
troduced. Ben-Gurion to 20,000 two-reel Westerns; and by garde picture "Caligari" to
DIXIELAND AND JAZZ
spectators at the Hollywood advice of an attorney friend, this country for exhibition at
Bowl in 1948 shortly after the Arthur S. Friend, who fore- New York's Capitol Theater.
SEE "6 LEADERS AND A SIDE MAN"
young republic declared her saw the growing need for fea-
When the Goldwyn Com-
SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 8 P.M. to 12:30 a.m.
independence. Earlier, i n ture-length films to both the pany merged with Metro and
1943, Goldwyn had lifted the exhibitors and the nickelo- was purchased by Loew's
LATE SAM GOLDWYN
Downstairs at the
DANCING &
public out of its complacency dean public, started to ac- Inc., Samuel Goldwyn left
LELAND HOUSE
COCKTAILS
with his revealing anti-Nazi quaint himself with the med- the field to Louis B. Mayer, tion of George and Ira Gersh-
Ca ss at Bagley
Cover Charge
epic, "The North Star," with ium of the screen.
but his name remained in win's "Porgy and Bess" with
Erich von Stroheim creating
Together with his brother- the label of Metro-Goldwyn- Otto Preminger directing the
in-law, a veteran in show Mayer for 50 years. Goldwyn late Dorothy Dandridge, Sid-
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business, Goldwyn formed went on his own, moving into ney Poitier, Sammy Davis
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Jesse L. Lasky Feature Pic- the United Artists studios in Jr. and Pearl Bailey.
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On the eve of his 80th
the two partners investing ship with Mary Pickford and
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$7,500 and borrowing another Charlie Chaplin. His pictures birthday, Goldwyn called for
$11,500 to bring up the total include "Arrowsmith," "Na- a press conference formulat-
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capital of $26,500. Broadway na," "Adventures of Marco ing a Code of Ethics for Hol-
every Wednesday and Friday
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actor Cecil B. DeMille was Polo," "Pride of the Yan- lywood.
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signed for $100 a week, and kees," "Dodsworth," "Little ' When the picture "Sallah"
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stage play (with Dustin Far- Heights." He introduced to Israeli entry for the Goldwyn
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served up with french fries, creamy tole slaw
num repeating the part in the the screen Eddie Cantor, Will award, Sam insisted that he
and a roll—$2.50—of course we have our
film) selected as the first ve- Rogers, Gary Cooper, Ronald had to see the nominated
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hicle. After an attempt failed Colman and David Niven; films before he would con-
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staff, Ariz., DeMille went to ent of film director William
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an obscure suburb of Los Wyler. In 1944, Goldwyn de- Goldwyn, after seeing the
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Goldwyn became so "Wonder Man," "Kid from screen how the shrewdly-sly
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Sallah (portrayed by Haim
Brooklyn," "A Song Is Topol) and his fellow immi-
Born," "The Secret Life of grants from North Africa try
Walter Mitty" and finally to fool the American tourists
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"Hans Christian Andersen." who have bought trees and
In 1946, Goldwyn conceived actually want to see them.
the idea of a screen epic Samuel Goldwyn, in his hon-
dealing with the plight of the esty and his love for Israel,
returning veterans caught in just didn't wish to see the
the aftermath of World War People of the Book portrayed
II. MacKinlay Kantor devel- —even in pure fun—as men
oped the treatment and Sher- and women with hum an
wood wrote the screen play weaknesses who try to out-
to "The Best Years of Our smart the rich uncle from the
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Lives," with Wyler directing United States. "I am going
Myrna Loy, Fredric March to Israel this fall," Goidwyn
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and Teresa Wright.
warned me, "to tell my good
During the postwar years, friend Ben-Gurion about this
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Goldwyn produced "The Bis- outrage."
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hop's Wife," with Henry Kos-
Goldwyn was from the
ter directing the light-heart- mold that shaped the image
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ed Robert Nathan yarn with of America. He always show-
Loretta Young, Cary Grant ed guts and courage in mis-
and Divid Niven sharing star fortune. When the Goldwyn
billing. In 1949, Goldwyn Company was on the verge
made the whimsical picture of collapse in 1918, his asso-
"My Foolish Heart," with a ciates at Fort Lee, N. J.,
screen play by the Epstein came to his bedside at the
twins and introducing direc- hospital where he was con-
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tor Mark Robson. In 1955, he fined with an injured leg. He
produced "Guys and Dolls," was sick and financially
from the stage musical by broke. Yet, when Arthur
Frank Loesser, with Joseph Hopkins, Sam Harris and Ed-
L. Mankiewicz guiding such gar Selwyn tried cautiously
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performers as Jean Simmons, to tell him about the hopeless
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Marlon Brando and Frank state of affairs, he answered
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