On this day in 1974, the pioneering movie producer Samuel Goldwyn dies in his sleep at the age of 91, at his home in Los Angeles.
Born Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, Goldwyn left Poland when he was 11 for England and later New York, where he took a menial job in a glove factory; he would rise to become a partner in the company by the time he was in his mid-20s. Upon his arrival in the United States, he took the name Samuel Goldfish, the easiest approximation of his Polish name. After marrying Blanche Lasky in 1910, he went into business several years later with her brother, the vaudeville producer Jesse Lasky, and they co-founded the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company. The company’s first production, The Squaw Man (1914) was the first feature-length motion picture to be produced in Hollywood (as opposed to the general Los Angeles area). (Hist.Channel)
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