Goldwyn Picture Corporation - Definition and Overview

In 1916 Samuel Goldfish partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making enterprise the Goldwyn Picture Corporation. Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Goldfish then had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn.

At the beginning, Goldwyn Pictures rented production facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey from Solax Studios. The Goldwyn Picture Corporation proved moderately successful but it is their "Leo the Lion" trademark for which the organization is most famous. Eventually the company merged with Marcus Loew and the Metro Picture Corporation, adopting the "Leo the Lion" trademark but Samuel Goldfish was forced out by his partners and was never a part of the new studio that became Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.