Albert Lewin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Albert Lewin (1894–1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 23, 1894 and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University of Missouri. During World War I, he served in the military and was afterwards appointed assistant national director of the American Jewish Relief Committee. He later became a drama and film critic for the Jewish Tribune until the early 1920s, when he went to Hollywood to become a reader for Samuel Goldwyn. Later he worked as a script clerk for directors King Vidor and Victor Sjöström before becoming a screenwriter at MGM in 1924. Lewin was appointed head of the studio's script department and by the late 20s was Irving Thalberg's personal assistant and closest associate. Nominally credited as an associate producer, he produced several of MGM's most important films of the 1930s. After Thalberg's death, he joined Paramount as a producer in 1937, where he remained until 1941. Notable producing credits during this period include True Confession (1937), Spawn of the North (1938), Zaza (1939) and So Ends Our Night (1941). In 1942, Lewin began to direct. He made six films, writing all of them and producing several himself. As a director and writer, he showed literary and cultural aspirations in the selection and treatment of his themes. In 1966, Lewin published a novel, The Unaltered Cat. He died of pneumonia in New York on May 9, 1968. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Lewin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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ProductionBirthday
September 23, 1894Deathday
May 9, 1968Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
25Place of birth
Brooklyn, New YorkCrew credits
The Lady Eve
ProducerPandora and the Flying Dutchman
Director, Producer, Story, ScreenplayThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Director, ScreenplayThe Moon and Sixpence
Director, Adaptation, WriterSpawn of the North
ProducerSaadia
Director, ScreenplayThe Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Director, ScreenplayThe Guardsman
ProducerThe Living Idol
Director, Writer, ProducerZaza
ProducerRed-Headed Woman
ProducerSmilin' Through
ProducerThree Wise Fools
Script SupervisorThe Actress
WriterChina Seas
Associate ProducerMutiny on the Bounty
Associate ProducerSpring Fever
WriterWhat Every Woman Knows
Producer, Production SupervisorSo Ends Our Night
ProducerThe Good Earth
Associate Producer