Samuel Goldwyn (born Schmuel Gelbfisz (Yiddish: שמואל גלבפֿיץ); c. July 1879 – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was an American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.
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“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
—Anonymous. quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Feb. 1776 (1791)
“That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.”
—Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)