Herbert Clyde Lewis
Herbert Clyde Lewis ( born August 15, 1909 in New York City, New York, † October 17, 1950 ) was an American journalist, author and screenwriter who was nominated once for an Academy Award for best original story.
Life
Lewis, a son coming from Russia Jewish Einwanderfamilie, worked as a reporter for The New York Journal and at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, before he was news editor at the daily newspaper The New York Herald Tribune. At the same time since the mid-1930s he worked as a writer and published in 1937 with Gentleman overboard his first book.
In 1939 he also began working as a screenwriter for the film industry in Hollywood and made his debut with the script template to orchestrated by Bernard Vorhaus Adventure Fisherman's Wharf, where Bobby Breen, Leo Carrillo and Henry Armetta played the lead roles.
At the Academy Awards in 1948 Lewis was nominated along with Frederick Stephani for the Oscar for best original story, and indeed for the romantic comedy Life as a millionaire ( It Happened on Fifth Avenue, 1947) by Roy Del Ruth with Don DeFore, Ann Harding and Charles Ruggles.
Publications
- Gentleman overboard, 1937
- Spring Offensive, 1940
- Season's greetings, 1941
- The silver dark, 1959 ( posthumously )