The Samuel Goldwyn Company was an independent film company founded by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., the son of the famous Hollywood mogul, Samuel Goldwyn, in 1979. Its first production was 1983's The Golden Seal. An independent film, or indie film, is usually a low-budget film that is produced by a small movie studio. ... Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. ... ... Mogul may mean: a bump in the snow in alpine skiing, a Mongolian the Mughal empire, or any member of its ruling dynasty by extension, any ruler or powerful person, such as a industrial mogul or media mogul a railroad steam locomotive type called the Mogul the largest size light... Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 (some sources say 17 August 1882, others 1879 [1]) – 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. ...

In succeeding years, the Goldwyn company was able to obtain (from the Sr. Goldwyn's estate) the rights to all films produced under Samuel Goldwyn (including the original 1929 Bulldog Drummond, Arrowsmith, and Guys and Dolls). They also acquired the theatrical and television rights to the Rodgers and Hammerstein films and television programs that were independently produced but released by other companies, including South Pacific, Oklahoma!, and the 1965 CBS television adaptation of Cinderella. Other films include The Care Bears Movie, The Chipmunk Adventure (with Alvin and the Chipmunks), and Rock-a-Doodle. Among the other television programs in the Goldwyn company's library are the television series American Gladiators and Steve Krantz's miniseries Dadah is Death. Bulldog Drummond is a British fictional character created by Sapper, a pseudonym of H. C. McNeile (1888-1937), in imitation of the hard boiled noir-style detectives appearing in contemporary American fiction. ... Arrowsmith is a 1931 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ... Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film made by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and released by MGM. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. ... Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right), with Irving Berlin (middle) and Helen Tamiris, watching auditions at the St. ... South Pacific is a musical play, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. When it first opened on Broadway on April 7, 1949, it was produced by Leland Hayward and directed by Joshua Logan. ... Oklahoma! was the first musical play written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein). ... CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ... Gustave Dorés illustration for Cendrillon Cinderella (French: Cendrillon) is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. ... The Care Bears Movie is an animated feature film, released in 1985, that was the first to feature the popular Care Bears toy characters. ... The Chipmunk Adventure is a 1987 animated film featuring the characters from NBCs Saturday morning cartoon Alvin and the Chipmunks. ... Alvin and the Chipmunks, left to right: Theodore, Simon, and Alvin. ... Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 animated re-telling of Edmond Rostands Chantecler. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Steve Krantz is a film producer and writer who was most active from 1966 to 1996. ... Dadah is Death is an Australian film based on the executions of Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers in Malaysia in 1986. ...

In 1991, after a merger with another company, the company went public as Samuel Goldwyn Entertainment. That company and its library were later acquired by Metromedia, and in 1997 sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where the rights stand today. 1970s logo for WTCN-TV (now KARE) in Minneapolis, which included the corporate logo for Metromedia; this logo was also used by KTTV in Los Angeles Metromedia Producers Corporation logo Metromedia (also often MetroMedia) was a media company that owned radio and television stations in the United States from 1956... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ...

Goldwyn has since gone on to found Samuel Goldwyn Films. This successor company has continued to release independent films such as What the Bleep Do We Know? and the Academy Award-nominated The Squid and the Whale. ... The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. ...

Other names

• Goldwyn Films;
• Goldwyn Entertainment Company;
• G2 Films.

See also

• Samuel Goldwyn Television

Samuel Goldwyn Television was a U.S. television production/distribution company that was formed in 1979 by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. ...

External links

• The Samuel Goldwyn Films website
• The Samuel Goldwyn Company at the Internet Movie Database
• Samuel Goldwyn Films at the Internet Movie Database