Goldwyn Picture Corporation
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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. Samuel Goldwyn was eventually forced out by his partners who then brought in Lee Shubert, the head of The Shubert Organization that was the dominant live theatre operator in the United States. Shubert took control and merged the company with movie theater magnate Marcus Loew and his Metro Pictures Corporation giving the "Leo the Lion" trade mark to their new entity. When Metro Pictures acquired Louis B. Mayer Pictures, it resulted in a new studio with the name Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.