Goldwyn Company

American film production company founded in 1916 by Samuel Goldwyn (born Schmuel Gelbfisz) after he left Lasky Feature Play Company. It produced silent features through the early 1920s, including Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924). In 1924 it merged with Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Goldwyn name lived on through Samuel Goldwyn's later independent productions.