Bernard Smith (editor)
Bernard Smith ( born September 20, 1907 † 21 September 1999 in Beverly Hills ) was an American editor, literary critic and film producer, who was nominated twice for an Oscar for best film.
Life
Smith graduated from post-school studies at the City University of New York ( CUNY ) and began after its completion in 1928 working for the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. , Where he rose to become managing editor and published, among other well-known authors such as B. Traven, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Langston Hughes. In addition to his publishing activities, he also worked as a literary critic and published, among others, 1939 Forces in American Criticism, a historical and critical study of American literature and literary criticism from a Marxist perspective.
1947 Smith began his work in the film industry in Hollywood, where he first revised for Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer film scripts and templates after leaving the publishing house button. Later he produced only five films 1960-1969. Same for its first production, which is generated after the novel by Sinclair Lewis Literaturverfilmung Elmer Gantry (1960 ) by Richard Brooks with Burt Lancaster in the title role and Jean Simmons and Dean Jagger in other roles, he was at the Academy Awards in 1961 for the first time for the Oscar nominated for Best Picture.
His second nomination for an Oscar for best film received Smith in 1964 for the staged by Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall Western The West Was Won ( How the West Was Won, 1962) with Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb and Henry Fonda and many other star cast.
1965 Smith won with director John Ford and screenwriter James R. Webb Bronze Wrangler Western Heritage Awards for Best Film, and indeed for the Western Cheyenne (Cheyenne Autumn, 1964) with Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker and Karl Malden.
Awards
Publications
- Forces in American Criticism, 1939
- The Democratic Spirit: A Collection of American Writings From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1941
- A World Remembered: 1925-1950, autobiography, 1994