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Died Sept. 25, 1980 in UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, CA. L ewis Milestone was the director of the original production of the motion picture classic "All Quiet on the Western Front." During his film career, spanning more than 40 years from the silent movie days, Milestone twice won an Academy Award for directing.
Addressed are Milestone's successes -- he garnered 28 Academy Award nominations -- as well as his challenges. Using newly available archival material, this work also examines Milestone's experience during the Hollywood Blacklist period, when he was one of the first prominent Hollywood figures to fall under suspicion for his alleged Communist sympathies.
Lewis Milestone (eredeti neve: Lev Milstein) ( Chișinău, 1895. szeptember 30. – Los Angeles, 1980. szeptember 25.) kétszeres Oscar-díjas amerikai filmrendező, filmproducer és forgatókönyvíró .
Biography. Former assistant to cinematographer Lucien Andriot (with the US Army Signal Corps) who moved to Hollywood in 1919 and began working as an assistant cutter the following year. Milestone began directing in 1925 and assured himself a place in cinema history with "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930), a landmark anti-war work, and "The ...
Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director.
Lewis Milestone (1895-1980) was born Lewis Milstein in Chisinau, Moldova. He enrolled in engineering college in Mitweide, Germany, but left to emigrate to the United States in 1913. Milestone settled in New York and worked as a laborer before joining the Signal Corps in 1917.
Dec 10, 2019 · A biography of the Oscar-winning director and a study of his acclaimed films, like All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page, and Of Mice and Men. This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone’s remarkable life—a classic rags-to-riches American narrative—in full and explores his many acclaimed films from the silent to the sound era.
