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- Life and career
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{{Other people}}{{Infobox person | name = Sam Wood | image = Sam Wood.croop.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1883|07|10}} | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1949|09|22|1883|07|10}} | death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S. | occupation = Film director, writer, producer, actor, real estate broker | spouse = {{marriage|Clara L. Roush |1908|}} | children = 2 | imagesize = | birthname = Samuel Grosvenor Wood | yearsactive = 1917–1949 }}Samuel Grosvenor Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees. He was also involved in a few acting and writing projects. Life and careerWood was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began his career as an actor,[1] and worked for Cecil B. De Mille as an assistant in 1915. A solo director by 1919, Wood worked throughout the 1920s directing some of Paramount Pictures's biggest stars, among them Gloria Swanson and Wallace Reid. He joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1927, where he spent most of his career.[2] While filming the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races, Wood became exasperated by the brothers' lack of seriousness on the set and shouted, "You can't make an actor out of clay!" Groucho Marx immediately replied, "Nor a director out of Wood!"[3] Wood directed Ginger Rogers through her Oscar-winning performance in Kitty Foyle (1940). He himself was nominated for Best Director, one of his three career nominations in the category. Wood continued to have a large number of box office hits in his career, right up to and including his last film, the gritty Western Ambush (1950),[4] although he died before the film was released. Political beliefsWood became increasingly and aggressively conservative. In 1943, he reduced much of the anti-fascist content of For Whom the Bell Tolls, saying "It would be the same love story if they were on the other side." In 1944, he founded and served as president of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.[5] The organization quietly lobbied the House Un-American Activities Committee to examine Communist elements in the movie industry, which they did in 1947. Wood had been keeping a black notebook in which he wrote the names of those he considered subversive. His daughter Jeane Wood said that his crusade "transformed Dad into a snarling, unreasoning brute." Shortly following a 1949 meeting of his Motion Picture Alliance in which he had raged against a liberal screenwriter who was suing the group for slandering him, Wood suffered a fatal heart attack. He had added a condition to his will: No one, including his children, could collect their inheritance until they filed a legal affidavit affirming that they had never been Communists.[6] FamilySamuel Grosvenor Wood was born on July 10, 1883 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to William Henry Wood and Katherine (Corn) Wood. Wood was married to Clara Louise Roush on August 25, 1908 and until his death in 1949. One of Wood's daughters, born Gloria Wood, was film and television actress K.T. Stevens. Another daughter was also an actress, Jeane Wood who married Joe Sawyer. DeathWood died from a heart attack, in Hollywood, at the age of 66. His grave is located in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Wood received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6714 Hollywood Boulevard on February 8, 1960.[7][8] DepictionsWood is played by John Getz in Jay Roach's Trumbo. FilmographyEarlier filmsWith Academy Award nominations and wins in the table {{div col}}- Double Speed (1920)
- Excuse My Dust (1920)
- The Dancin' Fool (1920)
- Sick Abed (1920)
- What's Your Hurry? (1920)
- A City Sparrow (1920)
- Her Beloved Villain (1920)
- Her First Elopement (1920)
- The Snob (1921)
- Peck's Bad Boy (1921)
- The Outside Woman (1921)
- The Great Moment (1921)
- Under the Lash (1921)
- Don't Tell Everything (1921)
- Her Husband's Trademark (1922)
- Her Gilded Cage (1922)
- Beyond the Rocks (1922)
- The Impossible Mrs. Bellew (1922)
- My American Wife (1922)
- Prodigal Daughters (1923)
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923)
- His Children's Children (1923)
- The Next Corner (1924)
- Bluff (1924)
- The Female (1924)
- The Mine with the Iron Door (1924)
- The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925)
- Fascinating Youth (1926)
- One Minute to Play (1926)
- Rookies (1927 film) (1927)
- A Racing Romeo (1927)
- The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
- The Latest from Paris (1928)
- Telling the World (1928)
- So This Is College (1929)
- It's a Great Life (1929)
{{div col end}}Later films Year | Film | Nominations | Won | Academy Awards & Nominations |
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1930 | They Learned About Women | The Girl Said No | The Sins of the Children | Way for a Sailor | Paid | 1931 | A Tailor Made Man | The Man in Possession | New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford | 1932 | Huddle | Prosperity | 1933 | The Barbarian | Hold Your Man | Christopher Bean | 1934 | Stamboul Quest | 1935 | Let 'Em Have It | A Night at the Opera | Whipsaw | 1936 | The Unguarded Hour | 1937 | A Day at the Races | 1 | 0 | Madame X | Navy Blue and Gold | 1938 | Lord Jeff | Stablemates | 1939 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 7 | 1 | Best Actor for Robert Donat Nomination — Outstanding Production for Victor Saville Nomination — Best Director Nomination — Best Actress for Greer Garson | Raffles | Gone with the Wind (replaced Victor Fleming for twenty-four days when Fleming temporary left the production due to exhaustion) | 13 | 8 | Outstanding Production for Selznick International Pictures Best Director for Victor Fleming Best Actress for Vivien Leigh Best Adapted Screenplay for Sidney Howard Best Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel Best Cinematography, Color for Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan Best Film Editing for Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom Best Art Direction for Lyle R. Wheeler Nomination - Best Actor for Clark Gable Nomination — Best Supporting Actress for Olivia de Havilland Nomination — Best Visual Effects for Jack Cosgrove, Fred Albin and Arthur Johns Nomination — Best Music, Original Score for Max Steiner Nomination — Best Sound Recording for Thomas T. Moulton (Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department) | 1940 | Our Town | 6 | 0 | Nomination — Outstanding Production for Sol Lesser Nomination — Best Actress for Martha Scott | Rangers of Fortune | Kitty Foyle | 5 | 1 | Best Actress for Ginger Rogers Nomination — Outstanding Production for David Hempstead Nomination — Best Director | 1941 | The Devil and Miss Jones | 2 | 0 | Nomination — Best Supporting Actor for Charles Coburn | 1942 | Kings Row | 3 | 0 | Nomination — Outstanding Motion Picture for Hal B. Wallis Nomination — Best Director | The Pride of the Yankees | 11 | 1 | Nomination — Outstanding Motion Picture for Samuel Goldwyn Nomination — Best Actor for Gary Cooper Nomination — Best Actress for Teresa Wright | 1943 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 9 | 1 | Best Supporting Actress for Katina Paxinou Nomination — Outstanding Motion Picture Nomination — Best Actor for Gary Cooper Nomination — Best Actress for Ingrid Bergman Nomination — Best Supporting Actor for Akim Tamiroff | 1944 | Casanova Brown | 3 | 0 | Nomination — Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) for Perry Ferguson and Julia Heron Nomination — Best Music (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture) Arthur Lange Nomination — Best Sound Recording for Thomas T. Moulton | 1945 | Guest Wife | 1 | 0 | Nomination — Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for Daniele Amfitheatrof | Saratoga Trunk | 1 | 0 | Nomination — Best Supporting Actress for Flora Robson | 1946 | Heartbeat | 1947 | Ivy | 1948 | Command Decision | 1949 | The Stratton Story | 1 | 1 | Best Writing, Motion Picture Story for Douglas Morrow | 1950 | Ambush | |
References 1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=209007|publisher=tcm.com|title=Biography for Sam Wood|accessdate=June 22, 2010}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/sam-wood/1876316/biography|publisher=moviefone.com|title=Sam Wood Biography- Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide|accessdate=June 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803214230/http://www.moviefone.com/celebrity/sam-wood/1876316/biography#|archive-date=2012-08-03|dead-url=yes|df=}} 3. ^https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=152028170 4. ^The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study. 5. ^Friedrich, Otto, City of Nets, Harper & Row, 1986, pg. 167-168 6. ^Friedrich, Otto, City of Nets, Harper & Row, 1986, pg. 168 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.walkoffame.com/sam-wood|title=Sam Wood {{!}} Hollywood Walk of Fame|website=www.walkoffame.com|access-date=2016-07-11}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/sam-wood/|title=Sam Wood|website=latimes.com|access-date=2016-07-11}}
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- Remembering Sam Wood: a biography
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