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Albert Levin (1894-1968) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
Albert Lewin was born in Newark, New Jersey on September 23 or October 23 1894. He earned a Master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University of Missouri. During WW I, he served in the military and was appointed assistant national director of the American Jewish Relief Committee afterwards. Later, he 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 studio's script department and by the late 20s was Irving Thalberg's personal assistant and closest associate. Nominally credited as an associate producer, he produced several of MGM's most important films of the 1930s and after Thalberg's death joined Paramount as a producer in 1937, where he remained until 1941. Notable producing credits during this period include True Confession and Meet the Missus (both 1937), Spawn of the North (1938), Zaza (1939) and So Ends Our Night (1941).
In 1942, Lewin began directing, but his entire output was limited to six films. He wrote the screenplays for all his own films and produced several of them. 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, New York on May 9 or July 9, 1968.
Albert Levin directed the following films:
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References
- Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin by Susan Felleman (1997), ISBN: 0805716254
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