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Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Ukrainian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
Oct 19, 2021 · Bill Ryan celebrates the nine horror films that Val Lewton produced for RKO between 1942 and 1946, like The Seventh Victim and Cat People.
Oct 4, 2019 · No stranger to doing things quickly (he wrote his pulp novels by checking into cheap hotel rooms for a weekend), Lewton produced nine such films for RKO (eleven overall) in a four-year period that began in 1942, starting with Cat People, followed by I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man, and culminating in Bedlam.
May 24, 2024 · About Val Lewton. Born May 7, 1904 in Yalta, Russia (now part of Ukraine) – Died March 14, 1951 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Val Lewton was a Hollywood film producer who broke the rules on what a "producer" can do during movie production.
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.
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.
Nov 26, 2020 · That’s the case with Val Lewton, a legendary producer who developed a reputation for creating A-movie horror on a B-movie budget by leaning into implied and suggestive horror amidst heavily...