David Lewis (film producer)
David Lewis (born December 14, 1903 in Trinidad , Colorado , † March 13, 1987 in Los Angeles , California ; actually David Levy ) was an American film producer who was the producer of the film drama in 1940 when he was the victim of a great love for the Oscar was nominated for best picture.
Live and act
Lewis began his career as a film producer in the Hollywood film industry in 1933 on the western The Cheyenne Kid by Rober F. Hill, which starred Tom Keene , Mary Mason and Roscoe Ates .
At the Academy Awards in 1940, he served as producer of the film drama Dark Victory (Dark Victory, 1939) by Edmund Goulding with the main actors Bette Davis , George Brent and Geraldine Fitzgerald nominated for an Oscar for best film, was subject but that of David O. Selznick produced the film Gone with the Wind (1939). In the following years he produced around thirty other films.
After he found the corpse of his partner, the British film director James Whale , who was made famous by Frankenstein (1931) and Frankenstein's bride (1935) and who lived with him as a homosexual , in the swimming pool of the common house in Santa Monica , on May 29, 1957 he pulled the body he largely withdrew from the film business and only produced one film with greed for lust (More, 1969). Only shortly before his death, he lifted the secret of the mysterious death of a whale and publicly announced that the suffering a stroke from memory loss, depression and loneliness Whale suicide had committed.
Ian McKellen played James Whale in the award-winning biopic about Whales, directed by Bill Condon under the title Gods and Monsters (1998) , while Lewis was played by David Dukes .
Filmography (selection)
- 1933: The Cheyenne Kid
- 1936: The Lady of the Camellias ( Camille )
- 1938: Love for four ( Four's a Crowd )
- 1938: Three Sisters from Montana ( The Sisters )
- 1939: Victim of a great love ( Dark Victory )
- 1939: dread at every dawn ( Each Dawn I Die )
- 1940: Hell, where is your victory (alternative title: Das Glück in der Glaskugel, All This and Heaven Too )
- 1941: The Dollar Rain ( Million Dollar Baby )
- 1942: I want to live my life ( In This Our Life )
- 1944: The Pirate and the Lady ( Frenchman's Creek )
- 1945: Rush of colors ( It's a Pleasure )
- 1946: Tomorrow Is Forever ( Tomorrow Is Forever )
- 1948: Arch ( Arch Of Triumph )
- 1955: The End of the Affair ( The End of the Affair )
- 1957: Hong Kong Was Her Fate ( The Seventh Sin )
- 1957: The Land of the Rain Tree ( Raintree Country )
- 1969: Greed for lust ( More )
literature
- James Curtis: The Creative Producer: A Memoir of the Studio System , 1993.
Web links
- David Lewis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lewis, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levy, David (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trinidad , Colorado |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1987 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , USA |