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Samuel Goldwyn - Born Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, Goldwyn left ...  Samuel Goldwyn Polish-born American film producer. Samuel ..... He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within MGM in its golden years. Mr. Mayer .... Samuel Goldwyn - the 'G' in MGM was born today 8-17 in 1879. He was a...
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Samuel Goldwyn - Biography - IMDb  Born Shmuel (or Schmuel) Gelbfisz, probably in 1879, in the Jewish section of Warsaw, he was the eldest of six children of a struggling used-furniture dealer. ... trademark, which was adopted by its successor company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). ... Sam changed it to Goldwyn when he went into partnership with producer...
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Samuel Goldwyn - New World Encyclopedia  Goldwyn was born Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw to a Polish Jewish family. ... After his departure from Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, he established Samuel ... Arts and Sciences with The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Goldwyn's drama ... This was the only independent film that Goldwyn ever released through MGM.
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Samuel Goldwyn - Wikipedia  Samuel Goldwyn also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Jewish Polish American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of ... Goldwyn was born Szmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire, to a ... At an early age, he left Warsaw on foot and penniless.
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Samuel Goldwyn Quotes - Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip ...  Born, Schmuel Gelbfisz August 17, 1882. Warsaw, Poland. Died, January 31, 1974 ... He is the "G" in MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The repository contains...
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Frdric Chopin - Wikipedia  Frdric Franois Chopin born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and ... Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, ... After a failed engagement to Maria Wodziska, from 1837 to 1847 he maintained an often troubled relationship with the French writer George Sand.
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Harry Warner - Wikipedia  Harry Morris Warner was a Polish-born American studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry. Along with his three brothers (Albert, Sam and Jack) Warner played a crucial ... Harry, Sam, and Albert then formed a new film exchange company, The...
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Louis B. Mayer - Wikipedia  Louis Burt Mayer was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ... After expanding and moving to Los Angeles, he teamed up with Irving Thalberg, ... Mayer was born Lazar Meir to a Jewish family in Minsk, Russian Empire .... and covered 185 acres in Culver City, California, outside of Los Angeles.
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Liam Neeson - IMDb  Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, UK, ... Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect ... Nominated for 1 Oscar. ... Schindler's List Oskar Schindler .... 1993 Schindler's List ... 1981 Charlie Was a Rich Man (TV Movie) ... 1978 Play for Today (TV Series)
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12 Outstanding Immigrants Who Made it in American Politics ...  May 17, 2016 ... Zbigniew Brzezinski. Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928. His family were part of the Polish nobility, entitled to the Traby coat of arms. His father...
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Mickey Hargitay - Wikipedia  Mikls "Mickey" Hargitay was a Hungarian-American actor and Mr. Universe 1955. Born in Budapest, Hungary, Hargitay moved to the United States in 1947, where he eventually became a citizen. He was married to Jayne Mansfield, and is the father of actress Mariska Hargitay ... During their marriage, Hargitay and Mansfield made four movies together,...
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Meyer Lansky - Organized Crime - Biography.com  Jun 22, 2015 ... Meyer Lansky was an organized-crime figure considered for decades to be ... in the development of a national crime syndicate in the United States. ... Maier Suchowljansky was born in 1902 in Grodno, a Polish city that was...
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THE JAMES CAMERON CONSPIRACY THEORY - Whale  Born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada in 1954, James Cameron grew up in Niagara Falls. ... to the U.S. after World War II by the O.S.S. under "Operation Paper Clip". .... George Bush(Former Director of the CIA and 33rd Degree Mason) in 1991. ... Determined to get into directing, Cameron worked on another science fiction...
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Cinema Style File--the Bathing Beauty of Esther Williams | GlamAmor  May 16, 2011 ... Esther even qualified and was destined for the 1940 Olympics, but ... After going to school and working around Los Angeles, Esther was discovered while modeling at I. Magnin and asked to join the Aquacade at San Francisco's Golden Gate ... When MGM signed her the following year, she made sure her...
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This question originally aired on May 28, 1999... - Jeopardy Questions  May 28, 1999 ... ... RUSSIA Question: The second M in MGM, this Russian immigrant created the star system as one of the heads of that company Answer: Louis...
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"The Pianist" the movie by Roman Polanski - Wladyslaw Szpilman  THE film director Roman Polanski, who fled the United States in 1978 after being ... Polanski, born in France of Jewish Polish parents, lost his mother in .... Adrien Brodie, who plays Szpilman, says he wants to buy a cottage in upstate New York. ..... all of them seeking a key to "the ninth gate," which, perhaps not surprisingly,...
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Warsaw - Wikipedia  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It stands on the Vistula River in east-central ... Due to its central location between the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth's capitals of Krakw ... Warsaw gained the title of the "Phoenix City" because it has survived many wars, conflicts and invasions throughout its long history.
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Jerzy Kosinski's being there, novel and film: changes not by chance.  A Polish-Ruthenian Jew, born in 1933 and looking very much like a Gypsy, ... Being There allows us to witness and judge the original writer's reconception of his own ... Before examining these changes, however, let me set the scene: Kosinski"s .... Filmed in Washington, D.C., and at the Biltmore mansion in North Carolina,...
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Gene Simmons Biography - KISSin' UK  Chaim Witz was born August 25th 1949 in Haifa, Israel to Hungarian-Jewish parents. ... Five years after his birth his parents separated, and when Chaim was only ... boy newly renamed Gene Klein, as he couldn't even speak the native language, ... in education and four languages- English, German, Hungarian and Hebrew.
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IMDb: Take my wife, please! - a list by yrnej  Feb 13, 2014 ... He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. ... His father was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents, and his mother ... irreverent digs and dead-pan Henny Youngman-like one-liners. ... so-called Borscht Belt of Jewish resorts in the Catskill Mountains.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer - Wikipedia  Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish author in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. ... Notable works, The Magician of Lublin .... Singer believed in the power of his native language and thought that there was still a large audience,...