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Added: Mar 14, 2021. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 224454785. Source citation. (Russian: Владимир Иванович Левентон) Val Lewton was an American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1995. External links. Val Lewton at IMDb; Val Lewton at AllMovie; Val Lewton at the TCM Movie Database; Val Lewton Bibliography (via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center) Val Lewton B Unit tribute site; Val Lewton at Find A Grave
Apr 26, 2015 · On Friday, April 24, 2015, exhibits designer and painter, Val E. Lewton died of cancer. Born in Santa Monica, California, son of movie producer Val Lewton, and Ruth Knapp, Val had a...
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Oct 4, 2019 · The madonnas and saints of old Russian icons impart a grave solemnity to his ensembles of outcasts, suggesting a nameless and permanent sadness beyond all plots. Often played by minor actors, in minor and sometimes wordless and uncredited roles, Lewton’s lonely figures possess a special insight that captains and commanders lack—an insight ...
May 6, 2015 · Val E. Lewton, a Washington artist and designer of artistic exhibitions for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art (now the American Art Museum) and other galleries, died...
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Oct 30, 2018 · He once had a wife, and when he goes to visit her grave he finds that it has been robbed. Anyone who has seen a number of Karloff movies knows that grave-robbing is often a plot point in them, and this emphasized his eerie suspension between life and death, between stillness and reanimation, and what these things might look like or mean.
As Selznick's assistant, Lewton doctored scripts and acted as an all-purpose literary expert, especially regarding Russian literature. He was instrumental in most of Selznick's projects during his time there from 1934 - 1942. For example, Lewton contributed scenes to Selznick's most famous drama, Gone with the Wind - and like most of his work ...
