About Albert Lewin: American Film Director Producer and Screenwriter (1894 – 1968)
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Albert Lewin (September 23, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He holds a master’s degree from Harvard University and teaches English at the University of Missouri. During World War I, he served in the military and was later appointed assistant state director for the American Jewish Relief Council.He later became a theatre and film critic Jewish Tribune It wasn’t until the early 1920s that he went to Hollywood to become a reader of Samuel Godwin. He later worked as a screenwriter for directors King Vidor and Victor Sjöström before becoming a screenwriter for MGM in 1924.
Lewin was appointed head of the studio’s script department and by the late 1920s was Irving Thalberg’s personal assistant and closest associate. He was nominally considered an associate producer, and he produced several of MGM’s most important films of the 1930s. After Talberg’s death, he joined Paramount as a producer in 1937 and remained there until 1941.Notable producers during this period include true repentance (1937), son of the north (1938), Zaza (1939) and That’s how our night ended (1941).
In 1942, Lewin began directing. He made six films, all of which he wrote and produced several of his own. As a director and writer, he has shown literary and cultural ambitions in the choice and treatment of subject matter. In 1966, Lewin published a novel, unchanging cat.
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As a director:
- moon and sixpence (1942)
- Portrait of Dorian Gray (1945)
- Bel Amy’s private affairs (1947)
- Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
- Sadia (1954)
- living idol (1957)
As a screenwriter:
- flirting destiny (1925)
- spring cold (1927)
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