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| Popular As | Robert Goldstein |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Age | years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
| Born | September 21, 1883 (Germany) |
| Birthday | September 21 |
| Town/City | Germany |
| Nationality | Germany |
Robert Goldstein’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.
Robert Goldstein was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.
The son of a German immigrant, Robert Goldstein was the owner of a business in Los Angeles that supplied costumes to the emerging movie industry. He wanted to try his hand at film producing, spending $200,000 to produce an ultra-patriotic movie, THE SPIRIT OF '76.
No print of the film is known to have survived, but it naturally portrayed a number of well-known events from the American Revolution such as Paul Revere's ride and the suffering at Valley Forge. The plot centered on the King's mistress Caterine Montour, who wanted to become the "Queen of America, " and of course portrayed a number British atrocities.
America had just entered the World War, and some authorities believed scenes depicting the Redcoats bayoneting a baby and apparently raping a young maiden would provoke hatred against their British allies.
Goldstein ignored an earlier warning and had restored the objected-to scenes for a Los Angeles showing and found him self prosecuted under a wartime Espionage Act and sentenced to three years in prison.
He went into jail in 1918 and served three years of a ten-year sentence before his sentence was commuted. Financially ruined, he spent 15 years in Germany after his release before he returned to the United States.
He sent a number of letters to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, complaining of his ill-treatment and asking the Academy to assist him in getting a job in the Motion Picture Industry. He was the subject of a book, ROBERT GOLDSTEIN AND THE SPIRIT OF '76 by Anthony Slide (1993).
In Robertson Davies's 1991 novel MURTHER & WALKING SPIRTS (1991) there is a scene in which a rediscovered print of THE SPIRIT OF '76 is shown. When Mel Gibson's THE PATRIOT (2000) premiered, Goldstein's fate was discussed again.
The online magazine SLATE had articles about him in June and July of 2000, describing him as "The Unluckiest Man in Movie History." Slate speculated at one point that as a Jew Goldstein probably died in the Holocaust, but later found that the last Goldstein was heard from he had been expelled from Germany and was in New York City in 1938.
