The Samuel Goldwyn Company 1929-1959
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Fortunately, the head of this studio put his name on his films.
I only wanted the talkies; the last film was Porgy and Bess (1959).
Several of Samuel Goldwyn's later credits (1946+) involve loaning out players under contract to him; those have been eliminated.
I cross-checked against filmographies in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn_Productions#Filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Samuel_Goldwyn_Productions_films
Fortunately, the head of this studio put his name on his films.
I only wanted the talkies; the last film was Porgy and Bess (1959).
Several of Samuel Goldwyn's later credits (1946+) involve loaning out players under contract to him; those have been eliminated.
I cross-checked against filmographies in Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn_Productions#Filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Samuel_Goldwyn_Productions_films
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- DirectorF. Richard JonesStarsRonald ColmanClaud AllisterLawrence GrantA bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRonald ColmanAnn HardingLouis WolheimSuave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsRonald ColmanLili DamitaAlfred HickmanThe English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsVilma BánkyJames HallFritzi RidgewayThis Is Heaven (1929) is an American Pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, and directed by Alfred Santell.B/W, Mono,Talking & Silent
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsRonald ColmanLoretta YoungFrederick KerrSpendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time, he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsRonald ColmanKay FrancisDavid TorrenceA distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsEddie CantorEthel ShuttaPaul GregoryWestern sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.2-strip Technicolor, Mono, Eddie Cantor
- DirectorKing VidorStarsSylvia SidneyWilliam Collier Jr.Estelle TaylorTwenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.B/W, Mono
- DirectorJohn FordStarsRonald ColmanHelen HayesRichard BennettA medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsEddie CantorCharlotte GreenwoodBarbara WeeksThe assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.B/W, Mono, Eddie Cantor
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsRonald ColmanFay WrayEstelle TaylorA bunch of crooks team up to find and steal money from an old man and his daughter.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsGloria SwansonMelvyn DouglasAlison SkipworthA young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.B/W, Mono, Gloria Swanson
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsJohn BolesEvelyn LayeLeon ErrolA poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.B/W, Mono, John Boles
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRonald ColmanKay FrancisPhyllis BarryLondon barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorLowell ShermanStarsJoan BlondellMadge EvansIna ClaireEx-showgirls and roommates Polaire Gwynn (Madge Evans) and Schatze Citroux (Joan Blondell) are reunited with their sometime friend and former co-worker, Jean Lawrence (Ina Claire), when she returns from France. Jean, a hard-boiled gold digger, asks the honest Polaire and loyal Schatze to introduce her to a new man, and Polaire calls her boyfriend, playboy Dey Emery (David Manners), for help. The girls meet Dey and his friend, pianist Boris Feldman (the film's director Lowell Sherman), at a speakeasy, where Boris bets Jean that if his piano playing does not induce her to love him, he will give her $5,000. Later, at Boris' apartment, Jean pretends to sleep through Boris' concert. Polaire then plays, and Boris, impressed with her talent, offers to be her teacher. He implies that she will have to be his lover as well as his student, however, and Polaire becomes upset when Dey does not protest. Dey mistakenly assumes that an exhibition of jealousy would be unwelcome, and his inaction results in Polaire's acceptance of Boris' proposition. After Polaire leaves to collect her things, Schatze and the heartbroken Dey also leave, but Jean stays to seduce Boris. Jean's calculated exhibitionism is successful, and Boris does not answer the door when Polaire returns. After she leaves, Polaire is hurt in an automobile accident and is hospitalized. Sometime later, Jean tires of Boris and breaks up with him, then pursues Dey. Dey welcomes Jean's attentions until Schatze tells him that Polaire has been in the hospital since their parting. Dey immediately goes to Polaire and proposes to her, and they reconcile. Later, Jean makes an unwelcome appearance at Polaire and Schatze's apartment while Polaire is waiting to meet Dey's father Justin (Phillips Smalley) for the first time. When Dey arrives and Jean learns that Polaire is to meet Justin at the Emery house, she slips a pearl necklace into Polaire's pocket so that she will have an excuse to follow. Polaire's interview with Justin is going splendidly until Jean arrives and intimates that Polaire stole the necklace. Indignant that Dey believes Jean, Polaire storms out, while Jean stays to flirt with Justin. Later, on the day of Jean and Justin's wedding, Schatze and Polaire arrive to retrieve a bracelet that Polaire loaned Jean. Jean returns the jewelry and miserably contemplates her future of wedded boredom as Schatze and Polaire brag about the fun they will have when they sail for France that afternoon. The trio are soon drunk, and Jean decides that she cannot exchange her freedom for Justin's fortune. She sneaks out of the house with Schatze, but Polaire is caught by Dey. Dey apologizes to Polaire for misjudging her, but Polaire leaves anyway. The determined Dey follows her onto the ocean liner, where Polaire consents to marry him when he states that he is certain of her virtue. The couple then cuddles happily as Jean flirts with Schatze's male traveling companion.B/W, Mono, Joan Blondell
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsEddie CantorLyda RobertiRobert YoungAn innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police.B/W, Mono, Eddie Cantor
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsEddie CantorRuth EttingGloria StuartA kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.B/W, Mono, Eddie Cantor
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsRonald ColmanElissa LandiJuliette ComptonRonald Colman plays an MP addicted to drugs, and a double recruited to cover for him.B/W, Mono, Ronald Colman
- DirectorDorothy ArznerGeorge FitzmauriceStarsAnna StenPhillips HolmesLionel AtwillNana is a 1934 American Pre-Code film, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, released through United Artists, starring Anna Sten. and directed by Dorothy Arzner and George Fitzmaurice. This version of Émile Zola's heroine was to be the vehicle for Sten's triumph as Samuel Goldwyn's trained, groomed and heavily promoted answer to Greta Garbo. Despite the big investment, the publicity help from William Randolph Hearst, and a record-breaking opening week at Radio City Music Hall, Sten was beautiful but disappointing. Goldwyn's tutoring of Sten is mentioned in Cole Porter's 1934 song "Anything Goes" from the musical of the same name: "If Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction / Instruct Anna Sten in diction / Then Anna shows / Anything goes."B/W, Mono, Anna Sten
- DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsAnna StenFredric MarchJane BaxterNekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.B/W, Mono, Anna Sten
- DirectorRoy Del RuthWilly PoganyStarsEddie CantorAnn SothernEthel MermanA musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.B/W & 3-strip Technicolor, Mono, Eddie Cantor
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsMiriam HopkinsEdward G. RobinsonJoel McCreaMary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.B/W, Mono, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea
- DirectorKing VidorStarsGary CooperAnna StenRalph BellamyBecause his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Connecticut. While he is finding material for his book on the lives and customs of the local immigrant tobacco farmers, his wife returns to New York and, alas, his Japanese servant deserts him. He meets neighboring farm girl Manya Novak and hires her to cook his meals and clean his house. They soon fall in love, but following the customs of the old country, her father has entered a 'marriage bargain' for her to wed Fredrik Sobieski, a man not of her choosing.B/W, Mono, Anna Sten, Gary Cooper
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsMiriam HopkinsJoel McCreaPaul CavanaghThe once-great Lorrimore family faces bankruptcy unless older son Brighton marries wealthy Edith Gilbert. When Brighton instead returns from a trip with his new wife Phyllis, she receives a cool reception from his family. Phyllis wants Brighton to pursue his dream of being a writer, but Mrs. Lorrimore sees to it that he gets a high-pressure job that he's totally incapable of handling. She also arranges for Phyllis to spend a lot of time with Brighton's boss in order to advance Brighton's career.B/W, Mono, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsFredric MarchMerle OberonHerbert MarshallThe close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.B/W, Mono
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMiriam HopkinsMerle OberonJoel McCreaTwo schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.B/W, Mono, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsWalter HustonRuth ChattertonPaul LukasA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.B/W, Mono
- DirectorHoward HawksWilliam WylerRichard RossonStarsEdward ArnoldJoel McCreaFrances FarmerAn ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.B/W, Mono, Joel McCrea
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsMerle OberonBrian AherneKaren MorleyIn 1921, Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic, independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the rebellion's leaders and a beautiful aristocratic Englishwoman meet and - despite the enormous class, cultural, political and social differences between them - fall in love.B/W, Mono
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsEddie CantorEthel MermanSally EilersMeek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.B/W, Mono, Eddie Cantor
- DirectorKing VidorStarsBarbara StanwyckJohn BolesAnne ShirleyA working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.B/W, Mono
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsSylvia SidneyJoel McCreaHumphrey BogartThe lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.B/W, Mono, Joel McCrea
- DirectorJohn FordStarsDorothy LamourJon HallMary AstorA Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.B/W, Mono
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsMiriam HopkinsJoel McCreaCharles WinningerFormer millionaire B.J. Nolan is useless with money, having lost most of his fortune on crazy schemes. His son, Kenneth, has the opposite problem thanks to good sense and a large inheritance bequeathed by his mother. In order to raise the cash for a housing project, B.J. enlists the help of young architect Virginia Travis to con the money out of Kenneth. At the same time Kenneth is being pursued by a pair of small-time hucksters and chaos results when they all end up in staying in B.J.'s house.B/W, Mono, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea
- DirectorArchie MayoJohn CromwellStarsGary CooperSigrid GurieBasil RathboneAdventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.B/W, Mono, Gary Cooper
- DirectorH.C. PotterStuart HeislerWilliam WylerStarsGary CooperMerle OberonPatsy KellyA lonely socialite masquerades as a maid and meets an unpretentious, plain-spoken cowboy who is unaware of her true identity.B/W, Mono, Gary Cooper
- DirectorGeorge MarshallH.C. PotterStarsAdolphe MenjouAndrea LeedsThe Ritz BrothersMovie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: "Love Walked In.Technicolor, Mono
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid NivenA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.B/W, Mono, David Niven
- DirectorSam WoodWilliam WylerStarsDavid NivenOlivia de HavillandMay WhittyMan about town and first class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.B/W, Mono, David Niven
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsGary CooperDavid NivenAndrea LeedsA small American contingent tries to train rural tribesmen to defend themselves against fanatical Muslim radicals in 1906 Philippines.B/W, Mono, Gary Cooper, David Niven
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsJascha HeifetzJoel McCreaAndrea LeedsA boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.B/W, Mono, Joel McCrea
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsGary CooperWalter BrennanDoris DavenportJudge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.B/W, Mono, Gary Cooper
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHerbert MarshallTeresa WrightThe ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth century.B/W, Mono
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsGary CooperBarbara StanwyckOscar HomolkaA group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.B/W, Mono, Gary Cooper
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperTeresa WrightBabe RuthThe story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.B/W, Mono, Gary Cooper
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsAnne BaxterDana AndrewsWalter HustonA Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.B/W, Mono, Dana Andrews
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsBob HopeDorothy LamourLenore AubertFired by his editor for incompetence, idiotic reporter Robert Kittredge sees a chance at redeeming himself when he accidentally uncovers a network of German spies in Washington, D.C.B/W, Mono
- DirectorDavid ButlerSidney LanfieldStarsBob HopeVirginia MayoWalter BrennanA cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.Technicolor, Mono
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsDanny KayeDana AndrewsDinah ShoreHypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.Technicolor, Mono, Danny Kaye
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoVera-EllenAfter being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.Technicolor, Mono, Danny Kaye
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric MarchThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.B/W, Mono, Dana Andrews
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoVera-EllenAfter a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer.Technicolor, Mono, Danny Kaye
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsCary GrantLoretta YoungDavid NivenA debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.B/W, Mono, David Niven
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoBoris KarloffA clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.Technicolor, Mono, Danny Kaye
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoBenny GoodmanWith her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.Technicolor, Mono, Danny Kaye
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsDavid NivenTeresa WrightEvelyn KeyesUncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and the subsequent romance between her and Lark's nephew causes him to re-evaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple don't make the same mistake he did all those years ago.B/W, Mono, David Niven
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsDana AndrewsSusan HaywardKent SmithAfter being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.B/W, Mono, Dana Andrews
- DirectorIrving ReisNicholas RayStarsFarley GrangerJoan EvansCharles BickfordThe saga of the Hatfield-and-McCoy feud is romanticized in Samuel Goldwyn's "Roseanna McCoy." Newcomer Joan Evans stars as the title character, whose elopement with Johnse Hatfield serves to further fuel the flames of the deadly mountain feud.B/W, Mono, Farley Granger
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsDana AndrewsFarley GrangerJoan EvansA mentally unbalanced young man kills a priest. One of the priest's colleagues sets out to find the killer.B/W, Mono, Dana Andrews, Farley Granger
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsAnn BlythFarley GrangerJoan EvansGail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.B/W, Mono, Farley Granger
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsDana AndrewsDorothy McGuireFarley GrangerIn 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.B/W, Mono, Dana Andrews, Farley Granger
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsDanny KayeFarley GrangerZizi JeanmaireThe opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."Technicolor, Mono, Danny Kaye
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsMarlon BrandoJean SimmonsFrank SinatraIn New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.Eastmancolor, 4-Track Stereo
- DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsSidney PoitierDorothy DandridgeSammy Davis Jr.A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.Technicolor, 70 mm 6-Track