Provenance
Purchased from Walter Reuben, Inc. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, and the Henry C. Taylor Fund, 2018.
Biographical / Historical Note
Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. (also called Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.) was a film production company in Los Angeles, California, 1923-1959.
Summary
Typed letters, signed, telegrams, and typescript memoranda documenting film production company Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., 1936-1953. Describes the production and distribution of films such as The Hurricane (1937), Stella Dallas (1937), The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938), The Goldwyn Follies (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), They Shall Have Music (1939), The Real Glory (1939), The Westerner (1940), Little Foxes (1941), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), and Our Very Own (1950). Includes correspondence with Joseph Ignatius Breen, Director of Production Code Administration at the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., concerning proposed revisions to The Adventures of Marco Polo in compliance with the Motion Picture Production Code (also called the Hays Code). Breen also discusses motion picture censorship practices in Great Britain, Italy, and India, including the disapproval of The Adventures of Marco Polo expressed by Italy's Ministero della Cultura Popolare.
References
Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. Correspondence. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. Correspondence. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.