Albert Lewin
Albert Lewin (born 23 September 1894 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, † May 9, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA ) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Life and work
Lewin grew up in Newark, New Jersey, studied at Harvard and then taught English literature at the University of Missouri. After military service in World War I, he was deputy director of the " American Jewish Relief Committee ". For the film, he came as a theater and film critic of "Jewish Tribune ". In the early 1920s he judged film scripts for Samuel Goldwyn and edited scripts for King Vidor and Victor Sjöström. In 1924, he was script writer at Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer, where he became head of the script department in the late 1920s and personal assistant and confidant of Irving Thalberg. He produced ( officially known as " associate producer " ) some of the most successful films for MGM in the 1930s such as Mutiny on the Bounty. After Thalberg's death, he went in 1937 as a producer at Paramount, where he remained until 1941. In 1938, he was responsible for the production of the film Pirates Adventure in Alaska ( Spawn of the North). Then he turned a total of six films as a director, often by literary sources. In Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, who is considered a cult film today, he let his artistic (he was with surrealist painters friends ) and literary imagination, supported by the cameraman and Technicolor magician Jack Cardiff, run free. In 1966 he published the story, The unaltered cat. He died in 1968 in New York City of pneumonia.