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Albert Lewin (September 23, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Personal life. Lewin was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University of Missouri.
Albert Lewin was born on 23 September 1894 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) and The Living Idol (1957).
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Directed by Albert Lewin. With George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury. A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Impressed especially by the most stylized and fantastic aspects of silent cinema, from Sjöström to Stroheim, Caligari to Keaton, Lewin left New York for Hollywood in 1922 and—just prior to Sam Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer—joined Metro Pictures early in 1924.
Feb 7, 2020 · One of the great unsung filmmakers of cinema’s Golden Age, Albert Lewin’s career may have only spanned six directorial efforts, but thanks to a new 4K restoration of his impossibly great Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, it’s time for an entire new generation of film fans to get caught up in his brand of impressionistic melodrama.
Albert Lewin (1894–1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 23, 1894 and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Master's degree at Harvard and taught English at the University of Missouri.
While it might seem strange to name a retrospective of the films directed by an MGM screenwriter and producer after Nietzsche's classic, Albert Lewin (1894-1968) was anything but a typical Hollywood figure.
