Samuel Goldwyn Answer

05/20/2024

A. His second marriage, to a Catholic woman, produced a Catholic son, pleasing Goldwyn who felt this helped him “bleach out his Jewishness.”

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B. He was the only major Hollywood producer who refused to blacklist writers targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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C. Upon being told that a book he had purchased for filming, The Well of Loneliness, couldn’t be filmed because it was about lesbians, he reportedly replied: “That’s all right, we’ll make them Hungarians.”

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D. He was unsuccessful at convincing Sigmund Freud to write a romantic screenplay (which he assumed would have great sex scenes).

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E. Playwright Lillian Hellman stated that “Within limits, I liked him.”

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