Goldwyn

This is the biography of one of the most famous of the independent Hollywood producers and an acknowledged builder of the movie industry. Moving from one exploding partnership to another, Samuel Goldwyn built and left companies that became Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists, emerging inevitably as the industry's "great independent." An uneducated man, he was however responsible for the selection of the most accomplished artists of his day, including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks. ISBN 0-394-51059-3: $24.95.