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Vladimir Ivanovich Leventon, Vladimir Leventon, Carlos Keith, Cosmo Forbes, Herbert Kerkow, Sidney Valentine, H. C. Kerkow
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Born in the Russian Empire in 1904, Val Lewton (born Vladimir Ivanovich Leventon) moved with his mother and sister to Berlin in 1906, then to the United States 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 1930s, then revived later in his career to take writing credit for two movies). In 1933 he got a job with David O. Selznick, where he spent many years as a story editor and jack-of-all-trades. Then in 1942 RKO hired him to head their new horror unit, where he made many famous and well-respected B-movies, for very low costs and high profits. In 1946, he “graduated” to A-movies, but increasing health problems, trouble working with big-money Hollywood, and other factors combined to force him to produce only three more movies before his death in 1951.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1904-05-07
- event Death Date 1951-03-14
- school Known for: Production
- star Popularity: 3.2
- info Birth Place Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [now Crimea, Ukraine]
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Val Lewton
9.5
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2005-10-04
6.9
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007-09-02
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6.9
The Seventh Victim
1943-08-21
6.9
The Body Snatcher
1945-05-25
6.9
The Body Snatcher
1945-05-25
6.9
Isle of the Dead
1945-09-01
6.9
Bedlam
1946-05-10
6.9
Bedlam
1946-05-10
6.9
Cat People
1942-12-05
6.9
I Walked with a Zombie
1943-04-21
6.9
The Curse of the Cat People
1944-04-01
6.9
The Leopard Man
1943-05-19
6.9
The Leopard Man
1943-05-19
6.9
The Ghost Ship
1943-12-16
6.9
Apache Drums
1951-04-01
6.9
Youth Runs Wild
1944-09-01
6.9
Mademoiselle Fifi
1944-07-28
6.9
My Own True Love
1948-07-01
6.9
Please Believe Me
1950-05-12
6.9
No Man of Her Own
1932-12-30
6.9
A Star Is Born
1937-04-27