In this Book
- The Search for Sam Goldwyn
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University Press of Mississippi
Sam Goldwyn's career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of films--including such classics as Wuthering Heights, Street Scene, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, The Little Foxes, and The Best Years of Our Lives--and worked with many luminaries--Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, George Balanchine, Lillian Hellman, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Eddie Cantor, Busby Berkeley, Danny Kaye, Merle Oberon, and Bob Hope among them. When Samuel Goldfisch was born in the Warsaw ghetto, he was penniless; when Sam Goldwyn died in Los Angeles, he was worth an estimated $19 million.
The Search for Sam Goldwyn locates the real Sam Goldwyn and shatters the "hostile conspiracy of silence" that protected his legend. In writing Goldwyn's story, Carol Easton has given us a fine examination of "the civilization known as Hollywood" and how Goldwyn himself shaped that culture.
Table of Contents
- Establishing Shot
- pp. 11-12
- 1. From Ghetto to Gloversville
- pp. 13-20
- 2. The Squaw Man
- pp. 21-24
- Process Shot
- pp. 25-30
- 3. The Goldfish Touch
- pp. 31-37
- 4. Good-bye, Mr. Goldfish
- pp. 38-45
- Process Shot
- pp. 46-49
- 5. Eminent Authors
- pp. 50-57
- 6. Behind Behind the Screen
- pp. 58-62
- Process Shot
- pp. 63-67
- 7. Free at Last
- pp. 68-78
- 8. Making Whoopee
- pp. 79-86
- Process Shot
- pp. 87-97
- 9. Selling "The Goldwyn Touch"
- pp. 98-105
- 10. Goldtvyn's Garbo
- pp. 106-112
- Process Shot
- pp. 113-120
- 11. Gilding "The Goldwyn Touch"
- pp. 121-128
- 12. Willy Wyler: The Finishing "Touch"
- pp. 129-139
- Process Shot
- pp. 140-148
- 13. "The Great Goldwyn"
- pp. 149-155
- 14. Business as Usual
- pp. 156-165
- Process Shot
- pp. 166-171
- 15. The Goldwyn Follies
- pp. 172-178
- 16. Wuthering Heights
- pp. 179-187
- Process Shot
- pp. 188-193
- 17. Disunited Artists
- pp. 194-197
- Process Shot
- pp. 198-201
- 18. The Midas Touch
- pp. 202-208
- Process Shot
- pp. 209-217
- 19. The North Star
- pp. 218-222
- 20. Enter Danny Kaye
- pp. 223-227
- Process Shot
- pp. 228-233
- 21. The Best Years
- pp. 234-241
- 22. Losing "The Goldwyn Touch"
- pp. 242-249
- Process Shot
- pp. 250-261
- 23. The Worst Years
- pp. 262-272
- 24. The Last Years
- pp. 273-282
- 25. Fadeout
- pp. 283-288
- Bibliography
- pp. 292-296