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Val Lewton. Producer: The Body Snatcher. Born in Russian Empire in 1904, Lewton moved with his mother and sister to Berlin in 1906, then to USA in 1909. He wrote for newspapers, magazines, novels, pornography, etc.- often using pseudonyms to disguise their origin (the name Val Lewton was one such pseudonym, used first for some novels in the 1930's, then revived later in his career to take ...
Oct 4, 2005 · Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy is a biography on Val Lewton career and include in this piece are Val's son Val Jr. and Sara Karloff - Boris Karloff daughter. All seven movie were made well for their day and on a low budget as well. The Val Lewton Horror Collection is a great collection piece of horror movies without monsters.
Cat People: Directed by Jacques Tourneur. With Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph. An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
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The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience’s imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian émigré in Manhattan who believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves (Kent Smith) will turn her into a feline predator. Lewton, a consummate producer ...
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 ...
Budget. $212,000. The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 American psychological supernatural thriller film [1] [2] [3] directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, produced by Val Lewton, and starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, and Ann Carter. It tells a story about a young girl who befriends the ghost of her father's deceased ...
The mastermind behind this was Val Lewton. Lewton had been in the movie industry for some time, but this was the first time that he was given creative control of a film. That film was Cat People ...
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