David Lewis (producer)

David Lewis (14 December 1903 in Trinidad, Colorado – 13 March 1987 in Los Angeles^[1]), born David Levy, was a prominent Hollywood film producer in the 1940s and 1950s,^[2] who produced such films as Dark Victory (1939), Arch of Triumph (1948), and Raintree County (1957). He worked for Warner Brothers, Paramount and M-G-M and was elected a vice president of Enterprise Productions, Inc. in 1946.

He was also the longtime companion of director James Whale from 1930 to 1952. Although they were separated at the time of Whale's death in 1957, Lewis later released the contents of Whale's suicide note.

Lewis was portrayed in the 1998 film Gods and Monsters by David Dukes.

Filmography

Producer

• More, 1969, executive producer (as David L. Lewis)
• Raintree County, 1957
• The Seventh Sin, 1957
• The End of the Affair, 1955
• Arch of Triumph, 1948
• The Other Love, 1947
• Tomorrow Is Forever, 1946
• It's a Pleasure, 1945
• Blind Adventure, 1933

Associate producer

• Frenchman's Creek, 1944
• Till We Meet Again, 1944
• In This Our Life, 1942
• Kings Row, 1942
• Million Dollar Baby, 1941
• All This, and Heaven Too, 1940
• 'Til We Meet Again, 1940
• Each Dawn I Die, 1939
• Dark Victory, 1939
• The Sisters, 1938 (uncredited)
• Secrets of an Actress, 1938 (uncredited)
• Four's a Crowd, 1938 (uncredited)
• Men Are Such Fools, 1938 (uncredited)
• Camille, 1936
• Riffraff, 1936
• Stingaree, 1934
• Where Sinners Meet, 1934
• Two Alone, 1934
• Headline Shooter, 1933
• Flying Devils, 1933
• Cross Fire, 1933
• Son of the Border, 1933
• Scarlet River, 1933

Writer

• Come on Danger!, 1932 (screenplay)
• Sinner's Parade, 1928 (story)

Bibliography

• James Curtis, James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters, Faber & Faber, 1998
• Boze Hadleigh, Hollywood Gays , Barricade Books,1996
• James Curtis, The creative producer, Scarecrow Press, 1993

References

1. "DAVID LEWIS, 83, DIES; PRODUCED CLASSIC FILMS". The New York Times. 16 March 1987. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
2. Slide, Anthony (25 November 2014). "It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age. Columbia University Press. p. 398. ISBN 9780231538220.

External links

• David Lewis at IMDB