Goldwyn A Biography Part 1 of 2 Author:A. Scott Berg Part One Of Two Parts Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood's greatest pioneer film producer, the man responsible for classics like "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "Wuthering Heights," started life as Schmuel Gelbfisz in Poland in 1879. How he worked his way to America, how he got to Hollywood, how he produced the first full-length movie, is the stuff ... more »movies are made of. Through Goldwyn's central role in movie making for over five decades, A. Scott Berg examines the innovations and incidents that defined Hollywood--the advent of sound, the "passing fad" of Technicolor, the studio system, and the black-list days of Joe McCarthy. "This story of a grabby but imaginative man would make a more telling movie about America than Goldwyn ever produced himself." (The New York Times)« less