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Edgar Selwyn (October 20, 1875 – February 13, 1944) was an American actor, playwright, director and producer on Broadway. A prominent figure in American theatre and film in the first half of the 20th century, he founded a theatrical production company with his brother, Archibald Selwyn, and
Edgar Selwyn (1875-1944) was a versatile and prolific figure in the American theater and film industry. He starred in plays such as "The Arab" and "Pierre of the Plains", and produced and acted in movies such as "The Arab" and "The Wall Street Girl".
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- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
It was founded on November 19, 1916, by Samuel Goldfish (who later changed his name to Goldwyn), an executive at Lasky's Feature Play Company, and Broadway producer brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using an amalgamation of both last names to name the company.
TitleStatus(Extant)(Extant)Fighting Odds (1917)(Extant)(Fragment)The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn and starring Helen Hayes. The screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht was adapted from the play The Lullaby by Edward Knoblock. It tells the story of a wrongly imprisoned woman who turns to theft and prostitution in order to support her son. Plot.
Edgar Selwyn was an American actor, playwright, director and producer on Broadway. A prominent figure in American theatre and film in the first half of the 20th century, he founded a theatrical production company with his brother, Archibald Selwyn, and owned a number of Selwyn Theatres in the United States.
Edgar Selwyn was a prominent figure in American theater and film in the first half of the 20th Century. He co-founded Goldwyn Pictures, wrote and directed several films, and owned several theatres in the US.
Edgar Selwyn. (1875—1944) Quick Reference. (1875–1944), producer and actor. A theatrical jack‐of‐all‐trades, he was born in Cincinnati to a poor, peripatetic Jewish family whose last name apparently was Simon. He made his stage debut in ... From: Selwyn, Edgar in The Oxford Companion to American Theatre » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre.
