Albert Lewin

Producteur, Directeur, Scénariste, Acteur

23 septembre 1894 — 9 mai 1968 (73 ans)
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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.

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Connue pour

  • Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
    Le Portrait de Dorian Gray1945
  • Un cœur pris au piège
    Un cœur pris au piège1941
  • Visages d'Orient
    Visages d'Orient1937
  • Pandora
    Pandora1951
  • Les Révoltés du Bounty
    Les Révoltés du Bounty1935
  • La femme aux cheveux rouges
    La femme aux cheveux rouges1932
  • La folle confession
    La folle confession1937
  • Madame Curie
    Madame Curie1943
  • Chagrin d'amour
    Chagrin d'amour1932
  • La malle de Singapour
    La malle de Singapour1935
  • Le Baiser
    Le Baiser1929
  • The Moon and Sixpence
    The Moon and Sixpence1942
  • Bel Ami
    Bel Ami1947
  • What Every Woman Knows
    What Every Woman Knows1934
  • Ainsi finit notre nuit
    Ainsi finit notre nuit1941
  • La Galante Méprise
    La Galante Méprise1927
  • L'idole vivante
    L'idole vivante1957
  • Le temps des cerises
    Le temps des cerises1927
  • La maja nue
    La maja nue1958

Filmographie

1958
1957
1953
Saadia · as Screenplay
1947
1945
1927
1927

1925
The Only Thing · as Officer

1954
Camera Three · as Self

1953
1951
1942
The Moon and Sixpence · as Adaptation
1926
Blarney · as Adaptation
1924
Name the Man! · as Script Supervisor