Albert Lewin

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Albert Lewin 18941968 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 Masters 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 studios script department and by the late 20s was Irving Thalbergs personal assistant and closest associate Nominally credited as an associate producer he produced several of MGMs most important films of the 1930s After Thalbergs 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia