20 DINOSAURS
CHANGES IN HOLLYWOOD: SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, Dec. 1, 1983; Alfred Crown to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1984; SG, transcript of interview with Edward R. Murrow, broadcast Apr. 6, 1951; SG, “Billion Dollar Baby” (revised typescript, ghostwritten by George Slaff), Feb. 8, 1950; SG, press release, Sept. 17, 1953; Lynn Farnol to SG, Sept. 18, 1950; Niven, Moon, p. 299; SG, press release, Mar. 3, 1953.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: William Dozier to SG (IOC), May 9, 1951; Henry Koster to Bert Allenberg (T), Nov. 9, 1950; SG to Robert Sherwood, Dec. 8, 1950; Robert Sherwood to SG, Dec. 6, 1950; SG to Noel Langley (N), Dec. 18, 1950; Noel Langley, “Supplementary Notes on ‘Hans Anderson [sic],’” n.d.; Noel Langley to SGJ (T), Dec. 20, 1950; Moss Hart’s deal confirmed in Irving Paul Lazar to SG (T), June 19, 1951; SG to Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers, June II, 1951; SG to SGJ, June 28, 1951; Myles Connolly to SG, May 1, 1952; Kitty Carlisle Hart to ASB (I), Oct. 22, 1982; Alfred Crown to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1984; Farley Granger to ASB (I), June 13, 1984; Frances Inglis (SG’s secretary) to SGJ, Jan. 15, 1952; SG to Danny Kaye, June 5, 1951; Gunhild Gansing (American editor of the Danish weekly Tidens Kvinder), letter to Christian Science Monitor, Mar. 29, 1952; Jean Hersholt to SG, Feb. 22, 1952; SG to Jean Hersholt, Feb. 25, 1952; Mogen Skot-Hansen’s comments are quoted in notes for press release, Apr. 4, 1952; “Danes Okay Kaye, Who Feared Kayo,” New York Times, July 22, 1952, p. 21; “Danes Surrender to Kaye-Andersen,” Film Daily, July 23, 1952, p. 8; SG to SGJ, Oct. 6, 1952.
GRANGER DEPARTS: Farley Granger to ASB (I), June 13, 1984; Farley Granger to SG, Oct. 14, 1952; SG to Farley Granger, Oct. 15, 1952; SG expresses his relief over Hans Christian Andersen in letter to Frank Scully, Nov. 28, 1952.
SG AND FAMILY: FG (“Grandparents”) to Jennifer Goldwyn (T), July 11, 1951; FG to SG, Oct. 10, 1951; Irene Mayer Selznick to ASB (I), Oct. 9, 1985; SG to SGJ, Oct. 20, Nov. 21, 1951; Mrs. Arthur Hornblow, Jr., to ASB (I), Oct. 19, 1982; SG to Alan Capps, Jan. 12, 1953; FG to RGC, Nov. 16, 1953; SGJ to ASB (I), Feb. 24, May 21, 1988; RGC to ASB (I), June 4, 1988.
CHARITY AND POLITICS: Robert G. Sproul to SG, Feb. 26, 1951; SG to Dr. Stafford L. Warren, June 6, 1951; SG to board of regents, UCLA, Feb. 25, 1953, July 27, 1954; proposed press release for SG Award for painting, Mar. 13, 1957; Willis Goldbeck (pres., Permanent Charities Committee) to SG, Jan. 12, 1956; Abba Eban to SG, Apr. 23, 1951; SG, introduction of David Ben-Gurion, May 24, 1951; SGJ to ASB (I), Aug. 21, 1988; SG to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Oct. 12, 1951, and (T) July 11, 1952; SG to Sherman Adams, Aug. 9, 1954.
Through Eisenhower, SG met Field Marshal Montgomery at a White House dinner, and they became friends. SG was his host for several nights in 1954, throwing him a black-tie dinner party on November 30; the guests included the James Masons, the Gary Coopers, the David Nivens, and two dozen others. Goldwyn introduced the guest of honor as “Marshal Field Montgomery.”
BETWEEN PROJECTS: David Golding to ASB (I), Mar. 3, 1984; William Dozier to ASB (I), Mar. 11, 1984; SG to Audrey Wood (re Tea and Sympathy), Feb. 11, 1954; SG to Eric Johnston, Dec. 24, 1953; SG to George T. Bye, Sept. 30, 1953; Robert Sherwood to SG, Sept. 11, 24, 1953; Ray Stark to SG, Feb. 25, 1953; SG to Robert Sherwood, Sept. 17, 1953; Danny Mandell to SG (IOC), Dec. 10, 1953; David Golding to SG, Jan. 31, 1954; SG (transcript of press conference), n.d. (c. Nov. 1953); James Mulvey to SG (IOC), Aug. 12, 1954; SG (transcript of press conference), n.d. (c. Nov. 1952).
GUYS AND DOLLS: SG, quoted in press release, n.d. (c. Nov. 1955); “‘Guys’ to Goldwyn for Million,” Hollywood Reporter, Mar. 4, 1954, pp. 1, 4; “Cinema,” Time, May 9, 1955, p. 106; SGJ to ASB (I), Dec. 1, 1983, Mar. 7, 1984; Mrs. WW to ASB (I), Apr. 15, 1983; Joseph L. Mankiewicz to SG (IOC), Nov. 2, 1954; Joseph L. Mankiewicz to ASB (I), June 6, 1983; Abe Burrows, Honest, Abe (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1980), pp. 291—95; JAM to SG (T), June 24, 1954; SG to Bing Crosby, July 30, 1954; Lew Kerner to SG (T), May 26, 1954; SG to Joseph L. Mankiewicz, June 3, 8, 1954, and (T), July 22, 1954; Joseph L. Mankiewicz to SG (T), June 8, 1954; Joseph L. Mankiewicz to Marlon Brando, n.d. (c. July 23, 1954); Robert V. Newman to SG (IOC), Aug. 9, 1954; SG to Miriam Howell, June 1, 1954; Deborah Kerr to SG, Jan. 5, 1955; “Stubby Toe” was recalled by David Golding to ASB (I), Mar. 3, 1984; Irene Sharaff, to ASB (I), Feb. 10, 1984; Irene Sharaff, Broadway, p. 93; Alfred Crown to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1984; Stephen Sondheim, Films in Review, Dec. 1955, pp. 523—25; Jean Simmons (through Geoffrey Barr) to ASB (I), May 30, 1986; Brando is quoted in Harry Bacas, “Brando Lets Off Steam on Duty Visit Here,” Washington, D.C., News, Nov. 14, 1955; Howard Dietz to SG (T), Mar. 7, 1955; SG to Nicholas Schenck, Mar. 30, 1955; Earl Wingard, proposed release regarding foreign business, June 1, 1956; “’Guys and Dolls‘—Estimated Gross,” Oct. 16, 1956.
CROQUET AND LEISURE BETWEEN PICTURES: Friend of FG who wishes to remain anonymous, to ASB (I), 1983; Mrs. Arthur Hornblow, Jr., to ASB (I), Oct. 19, 1982; FG to A. J. Dunne of Lehman Brothers, June 11, 1958; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, 1983; Louis Jourdan to ASB (I), Aug. 11, 1983; Leonard K. Firestone to SG (R), July 1, 1953; FG to George Slaff, July 1, 1953; SG to John Jaques & Son, Ltd., Mar. 10, 1958; Jean Negulesco to ASB (I), Aug. 17, 1983; Lauren Bacall to ASB (I), June 13, 1984; Jean Negulesco, Things I Did and Things I Think I Did (New York: Linden Press / Simon & Schuster, 1984), pp. 159—63.
NEW PROJECTS: Maurice Revnes to SG, Apr. 11, 18, 28, 1955; SG to Maurice Revnes, Apr. 14, 1955; the John Patrick incident was related by Cecil Smith to ASB, May 20, 1980; FG to McKay Morris, Sept. 25, 1953; FG to George Landy, Oct. 9, 1953; Miriam Howell to FG, Jan. 6, 1955; FG to Bennett Cerf, Dec. 12, 1955; SG, press release on the death of Robert Sherwood, Nov. 14, 1955; SG, advertisement for Diary of Anne Frank, n.d. (c. Mar. 1956); SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, 1983; Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett to SG, Oct. 7, 1956; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981.
PORGY AND BESS PREPRODUCTION: SGJ to ASB (I), Dec. 1, 1983; Ira Gershwin to James Goodrich (Hollywood editor, Johnson Publishing Co.), Apr. 8, 1958 (in private collection of Mrs. Ira Gershwin); Ira Gershwin (through Michael Feinstein) to ASB (I), June 28, 1983; SG Prod., press release, May 9, 1957; Langston Hughes to SG, July 8, 1957; Paul Osborn to SG, July 3, 25, 1957; Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett to SG, Sept. 30, 1957; Clifford Odets to SG, July 9, 1957; SGJ to SG (IOC), July 10, 1957; FG to Miriam Howell, Oct. 14, 1957; N. Richard Nash to SG, Feb. 17, 1958; Arthur Pincus to SG (re Elia Kazan), June 4, 1957; Abe Lastfogel to SG (re Frank Capra), Aug. 5, 1957; KV to SG (T), Aug. 22, 1957; Garson Kanin to SG, May 27, 1957; Mrs. Ira Gershwin to ASB (I), July 2, 1983; Lillian Schary Small to SG, May 15, Oct. 30, 1957; Lillian S. Small to Sidney Poitier, Nov. II, 1957; Sidney Poitier, This Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), pp. 205—13, 220—24; Leonard Lyons, “The Lyons Den,” New York Post, Nov. 21, 1957; Dorothy Kilgallen, “The Voice of Broadway,” New York Journal American, Nov. 12, 1957, p. 13; SG and Sidney Poitier, transcript of press conference, Dec. 10, 1957; Rev. Maurice A. Dawkins (pres., L.A. NAACP) to SG, Jan. 13, 1958; Jackie Robinson to SG, Dec. 9, 1957; Eddie Jaffe (agent for Sugar Ray Robinson) to SG, Feb. 5, 1958; Sharaff, Broadway, pp. 94—5; Loudon Wainwright, “The One-Man Gang Is in Action Again,” Life, Feb. 16, 1959, pp. 103—16; “American Classic Sings Anew,” Life, June 15, 1959, pp. 70—82; Irene Sharaff to ASB (I), Feb. 10, 1984.
STUDIO FIRE; RESUMPTION OF PORGY AND BESS: “Goldwyn Studio Fire Razes $2,000,000 Set,” Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1958, p. 1; Wainwright, “One-Man Gang”; Zukor’s reaction to the fire at the old Famous Players studio is recorded in SG, Behind the Screen, p. 29; Irving Sindler to ASB (I), June 12, 1980; FG to N. Richard Nash, July 7, 1958; SG to Y. Frank Freeman, July 7, 1958; Joe Vogel to SG (T), July 3, 1958; Jack Warner to SG (T), July 2, 1958; David Selznick to SG (T), July 4, 1958; WW to SG (T), July 10, 1958; SG to WW, July 10, 1958; DeMille’s message was sent from Milton E. Pickman to SG (IOC), July 2, 1958; SGJ to ASB (I), Dec. 6, 1983; David Selznick to SG (T re Bessie Lasky), Feb. 11, 1958; Bessie Lasky to SG, June 25, 1958; a member of the Wilshire Boulev
ard Temple who wishes to remain anonymous, to ASB (I), Nov. 12, 1982; SG to Cecil B. DeMille (T), July 2, 1958; Irene Sharaff to ASB (I), Feb. 10, 1984; Rouben Mamoulian to SG (NL), Feb. 3, 1958; “Statement Issued by Screen Directors Guild” (c. Aug. 1958); “Confidential—Proposed Statement from the Screen Producers Guild” (c. Aug. 1958); Russell Birdwell, press release, Aug. 5, 6, 1958; Irving Paul Lazar to Joe Schoenfeld (of Daily Variety [T]), Aug. 11, 1958; Otto Preminger, Preminger (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), pp. 136-39; Sammy Davis, Jr. (with Jane and Burt Broyar), Yes I Can (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965), pp. 475—77; Otto Preminger to SG (T), Sept. 27, 1958; Stephen Longstreet, “Close-up Demands That Samuel Goldwyn Shelve ‘Porgy and Bess,’” Hollywood Close-up, Aug. 28, 1958, pp. 1, 3, 7; Al Tamarin to Porgy and Bess personnel (IOC) (c. Dec. 1958); “Porgy Chased Off Screen,” Charleston, S.C., News and Courier, Mar. 16, 1961), p. 10a.
“LAST OF THE MOGULS”: “Sam Goldwyn Happily Observes 77th Birthday,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 28, 1959, sec. 111, p. 1; James Powers, “Goldwyn, 77, Maps New Pic,” Daily Variety, Aug. 28, 1959, pp. 1, 4; Wainwright, “One-Man Gang,” p. 103; Norman Lloyd to ASB (I), May 28, 1980.
21 A SLOW FADE TO BLACK
SG RETIRES, FG DECLINES: Joseph L. Mankiewicz to ASB (I), June 6, 1983; Mrs. Arthur Hornblow, Jr., to ASB (I), June 14, 1984; Louella Parsons, “The Real Mr. Goldwyn,” Los Angeles Examiner, Feb. 22, 1959, pp. 34—5, 42, Mar. 1, 1959, pp. 34—5; Mrs. Ira Gershwin to ASB (I), July 2, 1983; Mrs. Billy Wilder to ASB (I), July 14, 1983; SGJ to ASB (I), Nov. 3, 1983; Billy Wilder to ASB (I), July 8, 14, 1983; Irene Mayer Selznick to ASB (I), Apr. 4, 1987, SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, 1983; “Mrs. Goldwyn Plans to Write in Future,” Los Angeles Herald-Express, Aug. 19, 1959, p. D6; GC to ASB (I), Sept. 11, 1979.
SG HONORS AND POLITICS: Screen Producers Guild, press release on occasion of Milestone Award, Jan. 21, 1959; Jean Howard to ASB (I), July 20, 1983; SG quoted in “People,” Time, Mar. 28, 1960, p. 42; Jack Foreman to ASB (I), July 29, 1983; SG to Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, Jan. 16, 1961; “H‘wood Gives Massed Stellar Tribute to Samuel Goldwyn on 80th Birthday,” Variety, Aug. 29, 1962, pp. 2, 16; Philip K. Scheuer, “They Came to Praise Sam—and Rib Him,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, 1962, p. 11; “Transcript of Speeches at Samuel Goldwyn’s Testimonial Dinner,” Sept. 14, 1962 (Time/Life files); Joe Hyams, “After Goldwyn Birthday—A Plea for Code,” New York Herald Tribune, Aug. 28, 1962, p. 8; SG to Ben Hecht, Oct. 3, 1960; SG to John F. Royal, Sept. 4, 1962; “Tribute Paid Goldwyn at Dedication,” Los Angeles Valley Times, June 27, 1966, pp. 1, 3; SG to Mrs. Norman Chandler, June 24, 1963; Mrs. Norman Chandler to SG, Aug. 6, 1963, Jan. 3, 1966; William S. Paley to ASB (I), June 13, 1983; Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to SG, June 24, 1966.
THE STUDIO AND SELLING PICTURES TO TV: Jack Foreman to ASB (I), July 29, 1983; SGJ to ASB (I), Nov. 22, 1983; story about Dan Seymour was related by Jack Ball (who was also at the meeting) to ASB (I), Dec. 2, 1987; “Despite $5,000,000 Sales, Goldwyn Changes His Mind on Pix-Into-TV,” Variety, Nov. 9, 1960, p. 24; William S. Paley to ASB (I), June 13, 1983; “CBS Stations Giving Goldwyn Films Colorful Videbut,” Daily Variety, Dec. 29, 1964, p. 6; Cecil Smith to ASB (I), May 20, 1980; SG Productions, “Comparative Summary of Income and Expense Excluding Film Rentals,” n.d. (c. Dec. 1959); Wagner, You Must Remember, pp. 112—13.
DEATHS AND DEFECTIONS: Wagner, You Must Remember, p. 113; Richard Fish to ASB (I), Oct. 5, 1984; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 17, Dec. 1, 7, 1983; Selznick, Private View, p. 380; Jack Warner to SG, Jan. 7, 1965; Irene Mayer Selznick to ASB (I), Nov. 18, 1984; David Niven to SG, Apr. 2, 1966; George Slaff to ASB (I), Feb. 25, 1984; “Wyler-Goldwyn Suits Set for Sept. 11,” Daily Variety, May 4, 1962, p. 1; WW to SG, Oct. 16, 1962; WW to ASB (I), Jan. 8, 1981; Samuel Rosenman to George Slaff, Feb. 26, 1965; George Slaff to SG (IOC), Mar. 1, 1965; LH to ASB (I), Nov. 15, 1981; William S. Paley to ASB (I), June 13, 1983; Myrna Loy to ASB (I), Mar. 30, 1983; the Pittsburgh ratings of Wuthering Heights also appear in SG to Donald H. McGannon (T), Feb. 10, 1966; George Slaff to SG, Aug. 5, 1968; SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 26, Nov. 22, 1983.
SG’S STROKE: SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. II, Dec. 8, 1983; Dr. William Weber Smith to ASB (I), Feb. 23, 1983; Jack Foreman to ASB (I), July 29, 1983; Mrs. Ira Gershwin to ASB (I), July 2, 1983; David Rose to ASB (I), July 26, 1983; “Goldwyn Asks for Conservator,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 17, 1969, p. 2; “SG Ready to Step Down,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Oct. 17, 1969, sec. A, p. 5; “Court Rules on Estate of Goldwyn,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 4, 1969, sec. II, p. 8; GC to ASB (I), Sept. 11, 1979; FG to Jympson Harmon, Nov. 19, 1969; Irving Berlin to SG, May 19, 1970; Mrs. Arthur Hornblow, Jr., to ASB (I), Oct. 19, 1982, June 14, 1984; George Slaff to ASB (I), Feb. 25, 1984; SGJ to ASB (I), Sept. 18, 1978; Bob Thomas, press release, c. Sept. 1, 1971; Bob Thomas, “Goldwyn Turns 90 Sunday,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 26, 1972, sec. II, p. 9; Philip K. Scheuer, “Frances Goldwyn Talks, in Retrospect, About Sam,” Calendar (Los Angeles Times), July 25, 1971, p. 20.
SECOND FIRE: SGJ to ASB (I), July 28, 1988.
SG’S DEATH: SGJ to ASB (I), Dec. 8, 1983, and May 21, 1988; Albin Krebs, “Samuel Goldwyn Dies at 91,” New York Times, Feb. 1, 1974, pp. 1, 34; “Sam Goldwyn Eulogized,” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner , Feb. 2, 1974; SGJ, unpublished eulogy; Last Will and Testament of SG, probate package #P600467, Los Angeles County Archives.
DEMISE OF FG: SGJ to ASB (I), Oct. 17, Nov. 3, 22, Dec. 1, 8, 1983; GC to ASB (I), Sept. 11, 1979; Dr. William Weber Smith to ASB (I), Feb. 23, 1984; story of FG blowing up at GC related by Mrs. Ira Gershwin to ASB (I), July 2, 1983; Katharine Hepburn to ASB (I), Feb. 12, 1984; Irene Mayer Selznick to ASB (I), Nov. 18, 1984; George Slaff to ASB (I), Feb. 25, 1984, and May 21, 1988.
CUKOR’S DEATH: SGJ to ASB (I), Feb. 25, 1988; George Towers to ASB (I), Mar. 7, 1988.
INDEX
Aaron, Albert
Abrams, Hiram
Academy Awards
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Adams, Sherman
Adler, Buddy
Adler, Julius Ochs
Adrian
Adventure
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
Adventures of Marco Polo, The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
African Queen, The
Agee, James
Aherne, Brian
Akins, Zoë
Alexander, Harry
Alexander, Lelia
Algiers
All About Eve
All the King’s Men
Allen, Gracie
Allenberg, Bert
All Quiet on the Western Front
Allyson, June
Ameche, Don
America
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company
American in Paris, An
American Tragedy, An
Amidei, Sergio
Anastasia
Andersen, Hans Christian
Anderson, G. M. “Broncho Billy,”
Anderson, Maxwell
Anderson, Robert
Andrews, Dana
Andrews, Julie
Androcles and the Lion
“Andy Hardy” series
Anna Christie
Anna Karenina
Anna and the King of Siam
Annenberg, Walter
Apartment, The
Apfel, Oscar
Arab, The
Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,”
Arlen, Harold
Arms and the Man
Armstrong, Louis
Arnold, Edward
Around the World in 80 Days
Arrowsmith
Arsenic and Old Lace
Art Cinema Corporation
Arthur, Harry
Arthur, Jean
Arzner, Dorothy
Ascher Theaters
Asphalt Jungle, The
Association of Motion Picture Producers
Astaire, Adele
Astaire, Fred
Astaire, Phyllis
Astor, Mary
Atherton, Gertrude
Atonement of Gösta Berling, The
Atwill, Lionel
Avedon, Richard
Awakening, The
Ayres, Agnes
Babes in Arms
Baby Mine
Bacall, Lauren
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, The
Bachner, Joseph
Badger, Clarence
Bad Girl
Bailey, Pearl
Baker, Kenny
Baker, Phil
Balaban, John
Balanchine, George
Ball of Fire
Ball, Lucille
Ballin, Hugo
Bambi
Bankhead, Tallulah
Banky, Vilma
Banton, Travis
Bara, Theda
Barbary Cost
Barnes, George S.
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Barretts of Wimpole Street, The
Barrie, J. M.
Barry, Philip
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Barrymore, Lionel
Basevi, James
Baum, Martin
Baumann, Charles O.
Baxter, Anne
Beach, Rex
Beaton, Cecil
Beatty, Warren
Beau Geste
Beauty and the Beast
Beaverbrook, Lord
Becky Sharp
Behrman, S. N.
Belafonte, Harry
Belasco, David
Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Monta
Bell for Adano, A
Belletti, Valeria
Bells of St. Mary’s, The
Beloved Enemy
Ben-Gurion, David
Ben-Hur
Benjamin, Robert S.
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