Samuel Goldwyn Productions
- See also: Samuel Goldwyn (disambiguation)
Samuel Goldwyn Productions was an American film production company founded by Samuel Goldwyn in 1923, and active through 1959. Personally controlled by Goldwyn and focused on production rather than distribution, the company developed into the most financially and critically successful independent production company in Hollywood's Golden Age.
As of 2012, Warner Bros. has acquired the distribution rights to films from the library,[1] with Miramax managing global licensing.[2]
History
After the sale of his previous firm Goldwyn Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn organized his productions beginning in February 1923, initially in a partnership with director George Fitzmaurice. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, created by merger in April 1924, bears Goldwyn's name, but he did not produce films there.) Goldwyn Production's first release, Potash and Perlmutter, successfully opened in Baltimore on September 6, 1923.[3]
Some of the early productions bear the name "Howard Productions", named for Goldwyn's wife Frances Howard, who married Goldwyn in 1925. In the 1920s, Goldwyn released films through Associated First National. Throughout the 1930s, Goldwyn released most of his films through United Artists. Beginning in 1941, Goldwyn released most of his films through RKO Radio Pictures.
With consistently high production values and directors like John Ford and Howard Hawks, Goldwyn consistently received Academy Award for Best Picture nominations: Arrowsmith (1931), Dodsworth (1936), Dead End (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939), and The Little Foxes (1941). In 1946, he won best picture for The Best Years of Our Lives.
Through the 1940s and 1950s, many of Goldwyn's films starred Danny Kaye. Goldwyn's final production was the 1959 version of Porgy and Bess.
Filmography
| Release Date | Title | Distributor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 6, 1923 | Potash and Perlmutter | First National | |
| January 24, 1924 | The Eternal City | First National | |
| April 3, 1924 | Cytherea | First National | |
| September 29, 1924 | In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter | First National | |
| May 3, 1925 | His Supreme Moment | First National | |
| June 18, 1925 | A Thief in Paradise | First National | |
| September 27, 1925 | The Dark Angel | First National | |
| November 16, 1925 | Stella Dallas | United Artists | |
| February 15, 1926 | Partners Again | United Artists | |
| October 14, 1926 | The Winning of Barbara Worth | United Artists | |
| January 27, 1927 | The Night of Love | United Artists | |
| September 18, 1927 | The Magic Flame | United Artists | |
| November 3, 1927 | The Devil Dancer | United Artists | |
| March 23, 1928 | Two Lovers | United Artists | |
| November 17, 1928 | The Awakening | United Artists | |
| January 12, 1929 | The Rescue | United Artists | |
| May 2, 1929 | Bulldog Drummond | United Artists | |
| June 22, 1929 | This Is Heaven | United Artists | |
| November 3, 1929 | Condemned | United Artists | |
| July 24, 1930 | Raffles | United Artists | |
| October 5, 1930 | Whoopee! | United Artists | |
| December 20, 1930 | The Devil to Pay! | United Artists | |
| January 14, 1931 | One Heavenly Night | United Artists | |
| September 5, 1931 | Street Scene | United Artists | |
| October 3, 1931 | Palmy Days | United Artists | |
| October 28, 1931 | The Unholy Garden | United Artists | |
| December 17, 1931 | Tonight or Never | United Artists | |
| December 26, 1931 | Arrowsmith | United Artists | |
| February 13, 1932 | The Greeks Had a Word for Them | United Artists | |
| November 17, 1932 | The Kid from Spain | United Artists | |
| December 24, 1932 | Cynara | United Artists | |
| September 3, 1933 | The Masquerader | United Artists | |
| December 29, 1933 | Roman Scandals | United Artists | |
| February 1, 1934 | Nana | United Artists | |
| November 1, 1934 | We Live Again | United Artists | |
| November 10, 1934 | Kid Millions | United Artists | |
| March 8, 1935 | The Wedding Night | United Artists | |
| September 8, 1935 | The Dark Angel | United Artists | |
| October 13, 1935 | Barbary Coast | United Artists | |
| November 22, 1935 | Splendor | United Artists | |
| January 24, 1936 | Strike Me Pink | United Artists | |
| March 18, 1936 | These Three | United Artists | |
| September 23, 1936 | Dodsworth | United Artists | |
| November 6, 1936 | Come and Get It | United Artists | |
| December 25, 1936 | Beloved Enemy | United Artists | |
| May 7, 1937 | Woman Chases Man | United Artists | |
| August 6, 1937 | Stella Dallas | United Artists | |
| August 27, 1937 | Dead End | United Artists | |
| November 9, 1937 | The Hurricane | United Artists | |
| February 4, 1938 | The Goldwyn Follies | United Artists | |
| April 15, 1938 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | United Artists | |
| November 17, 1938 | The Cowboy and the Lady | United Artists | |
| April 7, 1939 | Wuthering Heights | United Artists | |
| August 18, 1939 | They Shall Have Music | United Artists | |
| September 29, 1939 | The Real Glory | United Artists | |
| December 29, 1939 | Raffles | United Artists | |
| September 20, 1940 | The Westerner | United Artists | |
| August 29, 1941 | The Little Foxes | RKO Pictures | |
| December 2, 1941 | Ball of Fire | RKO Pictures | |
| July 14, 1942 | The Pride of the Yankees | RKO Pictures | |
| January 27, 1943 | They Got Me Covered | RKO Pictures | |
| June 12, 1943 | Spitfire | RKO Pictures | [4] |
| November 4, 1943 | The North Star | RKO Pictures | |
| February 17, 1944 | Up in Arms | RKO Pictures | |
| November 17, 1944 | The Princess and the Pirate | RKO Pictures | |
| June 8, 1945 | Wonder Man | RKO Pictures | |
| March 21, 1946 | The Kid from Brooklyn | RKO Pictures | |
| November 21, 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives | RKO Pictures | |
| August 4, 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | RKO Pictures | |
| December 9, 1947 | The Bishop's Wife | RKO Pictures | |
| October 19, 1948 | A Song Is Born | RKO Pictures | |
| December 11, 1948 | Enchantment | RKO Pictures | |
| August 18, 1949 | Roseanna McCoy | RKO Pictures | |
| December 25, 1949 | My Foolish Heart | RKO Pictures | |
| July 27, 1950 | Our Very Own | RKO Pictures | |
| August 2, 1950 | Edge of Doom | RKO Pictures | |
| December 22, 1951 | I Want You | RKO Pictures | |
| November 25, 1952 | Hans Christian Andersen | RKO Pictures | |
| November 3, 1955 | Guys and Dolls | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
| June 24, 1959 | Porgy and Bess | Columbia Pictures |
See also
- Goldwyn Pictures, the film production and distribution company active from 1916 and merged with Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on April 16, 1924.
- Samuel Goldwyn Studio, informal name for the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios lot in Hollywood.
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company, founded by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. in 1979, active through 1997.
- Samuel Goldwyn Films, founded by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. in 2000.
References
- ↑ http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8459
- ↑ http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/miramax-to-manage-films-from-samuel-goldwyns-library/
- ↑ Goldwyn: A Biography, A. Scott Berg
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