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246:, which sailed from Hamburg, 29 April, and arrived in New York, 8 May; they were listed as Anna, Olga and Volodymyr Hofschneider. In America, he eventually changed his name to Wladimir Ivan Lewton, which came to be abbreviated as Val Lewton. Upon arrival in New York, Anna Hofschneider and her children joined the household of her famous sister, Alla Nazimova, in Rye, New York; she then reverted a version of her maiden name, Lewton, and earned her living by writing for the films. She and her children later moved to suburban 1271: 402:
for Lewton. Made for US$ 134,000, the film went on to earn nearly US$ 4 million and was the top moneymaker for RKO that year. This success enabled Lewton to make his next films with relatively little studio interference, allowing him to fulfill his vision despite the sensationalistic film titles he
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studios at a salary of US$ 250 per week. He would have to follow three rules: each film had to come in under a US$ 150,000 budget, each was to run under 75 minutes, and Lewton's supervisors would supply the film titles prior to the start of production.
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adaptation of Ferenc Molnar play, a comedy about the partnership of a thief and a lawyer who depend upon one another’s skill for success - to star Robert Cummings and Marion Carr and directed by William Cameron Menzies - to be made by RKO in 1946 but
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died in 1946, the studio went through personnel and management upheavals, ultimately leaving Lewton unemployed and in ill health after suffering a minor heart attack. Through connections, he rewrote an unused screenplay based upon the life of
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of popular movies for serialization in magazines, which were sometimes later collected into book form. He also wrote promotional copy. He quit this position after the success of
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His mother left his father and moved to Berlin, taking their two children with her. In 1909, they emigrated to the United States as second cabin class passengers on board the
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after it was discovered that a story he wrote about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication. He went on to study journalism at
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descent, the son of moneylender Max Hofschneider and Anna "Nina" Leventon, a pharmacist's daughter. The family converted to Christianity. He was nephew of actress
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did not follow, Lewton was hired by MGM to work as a publicist and assistant to Selznick. His first screen credit was "revolutionary sequences arranged by" in
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purported to be a translation from the Russian and brought from the Soviet Union, but this was a ruse to protect the book's real author.
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particularly liked Lewton's treatment, and in exchange for the script Lewton was given employment through July 1948. (The Goddard film
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Lewton always wrote the final draft of the screenplays for his films, but avoided on-screen co-writing credits except in two cases,
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was unfilmable and that Selznick would be making "the mistake of his life" trying to make a successful movie of it.
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an erotic novel whose publication would have subjected Lewton to criminal penalties given the mores of the time.
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made an offer on the work, and though the screenplay was not used, Lewton was given producer duties on the film
250:. Val was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in a federal court in Los Angeles as Wladimir Ivan Lewton in June 1941. 1449: 1362: 674: 189:, producing various films. His life and work have inspired books, documentaries, and an upcoming feature film. 598:. In June 2021, it was announced that “Shadows” was to be turned into a feature film, co-written by Roche and 475:, Karloff credited Lewton with saving him from what Karloff saw as the overextended Frankenstein franchise at 1473: 1262: 772: 698: 453: 1409: 1401: 1178:"New Republic Pictures & Laeta Kalogridis Option Adam Roche Podcast 'The Secret History Of Hollywood'" 634: 626: 540:, released in 1951. This film is usually considered the film most like Lewton's earlier RKO horror films. 392: 382: 247: 165: 1584: 1334: 1281: 1266: 862:. Included on the list of books burned by Hitler's orders. Reissued by Triangle Books in the late 1940s. 259: 242: 1203: 858:. (Vanguard Press, 1932). Translated into nine languages and published in 12 countries. German title: 1569: 1564: 1355: 982:- adaptation of Joseph Hergesheimer’s book, which had been filmed by King Vidor - developed at MGM 265: 255: 61: 1542: 1530: 1481: 1425: 1152: 966: 780: 706: 650: 603: 501: 476: 465: 418: 210: 182: 1497: 1323: 1248: 1147: 1056: 729: 531: 518: 505:, heavily rewritten, was released in 1949.) While at Paramount, Lewton also produced the film 496: 471: 422:, for which he used the pseudonym "Carlos Keith," which he had previously used for the novels 339: 328: 512:
Following his association with Paramount, Lewton worked again for MGM, where he produced the
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with Boris Karloff from a script by Ardel Wray and Mark Robson - originally meant to follow
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at RKO - Karloff would play Captain Aguilar, an American pirate operating out of Charleston
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A number of books and two documentaries on Lewton have been produced. A documentary film,
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tendered an offer to Lewton to work as an assistant producing a series of films at
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In 1920, when Lewton was 16, he lost his job as a society reporter for the
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story about a Roman Catholic priest set in Edinburgh, developed for RKO
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The Making of Horror Movies: Key Figures who Established the Genre
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Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton – The Man in the Shadows
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Val Lewton Bibliography (via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center)
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by David Tutaeff, a thriller set in Stockholm, developed for RKO
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adaptation of Charles Dickens story developed at Paramount
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and authored 18 works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
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was given, focusing on ominous suggestion and themes of
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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In 1942, Lewton was named head of the horror unit at
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appeared in three films for RKO produced by Lewton:
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The Thinking Man's Exploitation Shockers - Part One
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Val Lewton (visual artist)

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MGM
Ukrainian
Yalta
Imperial Russia
Ukraine
Jewish
Alla Nazimova
SS Amerika
Port Chester, New York
Darien
Stamford
Columbia University
No Man of Her Own
Clark Gable

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