Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samuel Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name. (The other alternative, Selfish Pictures, was immediately discarded.) Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Goldfish then had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn.
At the beginning, Goldwyn Pictures rented produ...
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Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samuel Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name. (The other alternative, Selfish Pictures, was immediately discarded.) Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Goldfish then had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn.
At the beginning, Goldwyn Pictures rented production facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey from Solax Studios. The Goldwyn Pictures Corporation proved moderately successful but it is their Leo the Lion trademark for which the organization is most famous.
Samuel Goldwyn was eventually forced out by his partners who then brought in Lee Shubert, the head of The Shubert Organization that was the dominant live theatre operator in the United States. Shubert took control and merged the company with movie theater magnate Marcus Loew and his Metro Pictures Corporation giving the "Leo the Lion" trade...
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