„Sto pagando fior di quattrini a voi sceneggiatori, e per cosa? Tutto quello che fate è cambiare le parole.“
citato in Portala al cinema, p. 66
Frasi di Samuel Goldwyn
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Samuel Goldwyn
Data di nascita: 17. Agosto 1879
Data di morte: 31. Gennaio 1974
Samuel Goldwyn, il cui vero nome era Samuel Goldfish, anglicizzazione di Schmuel Gelbfisz il nome ebraico polacco col quale nacque, , è stato un produttore cinematografico polacco naturalizzato statunitense.
In quasi mezzo secolo di attività, Samuel Goldwyn produsse molti film di buon livello, specialmente nel campo del melodramma e della commedia musicale, scoprì o valorizzò grandi registi come Cecil B. De Mille e William Wyler e attori come Gary Cooper, David Niven, Danny Kaye, Lili Damita e Eddie Cantor.
Frasi Samuel Goldwyn
„The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself.“
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 41-42.
Misattributed
„Gentlemen, include me out. (or just "Include me out.")“
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
Misattributed
„I read part of it all the way through.“
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 42.
Misattributed
„We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.“
Alternately reported as "We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir", in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
Misattributed
„I can answer you in two words: im-possible!“
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
Misattributed
„I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.“
Quoted in Arthur Marx, Goldwyn: The Man Behind the Myth (1976), prologue
„Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!“
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 42. A similar quote appears in the landmark book by Hollingshead and Redlich, ``Social Class and Mental Illness (1958), p. 237: The old saw, "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined," is applicable here.
Misattributed
„Our comedies are not to be laughed at.“
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 38-39.
Misattributed
„If you have a message, call western union.“
The popular attribution to Goldwyn is false according to his biographer in A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography (1998). The earliest known print attribution is to Moss Hart in Van Wert (Ohio) Times Bulletin (26 August 1954) as cited in Fred Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006). Also attributed to Humphrey Bogart in Stephen Humphrey Bogart, Bogart: In Search of My Father (1995), and to Ernest Hemingway in James R. Mellow, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (1992).
Misattributed
