Albert Lewin

Produttore, Regista, Sceneggiatore, Attore

23 settembre 1894 — 9 maggio 1968 (73 anni)
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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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Famoso per

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  • La tragedia del Bounty
    La tragedia del Bounty1935
  • Red-Headed Woman
    Red-Headed Woman1932
  • Sui mari della Cina
    Sui mari della Cina1935
  • La moglie bugiarda
    La moglie bugiarda1937
  • Madame Curie
    Madame Curie1943
  • Catene
    Catene1932
  • Il bacio
    Il bacio1929
  • La luna e sei soldi
    La luna e sei soldi1942
  • Il disonesto
    Il disonesto1947
  • Così finisce la nostra notte
    Così finisce la nostra notte1941
  • L'idolo vivente
    L'idolo vivente1957
  • Spring Fever
    Spring Fever1927
  • What Every Woman Knows
    What Every Woman Knows1934
  • La maja desnuda
    La maja desnuda1958

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