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The Creative Producer - A Memoir of the Studio System, by David Lewis (Hardcover)
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The Creative Producer - A Memoir of the Studio System, by David Lewis (Hardcover)
Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
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In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly
described David Lewis one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of
15 feature films to director Michael Curtiz: "That Lewis is a
genius at getting scripts out of people who can't write " Wallis
knew that writing ultimately defined the job of the creative
producer and that David Lewis had an uncanny talent for coaxing the
best filmic material from the screenwriters he supervised. In this
memoir, Lewis describes his development as a production executive
and how the associate producer helped make the famed studio system
work. It was the producer (or "supervisor," at Warners) who saw the
script budgeted, cast the film, helped choose the director, and
gently influenced the filming itself. Once shooting was complete,
it was the producer who stayed with the project through editing and
previews. David Lewis (1903-1987) was an associate producer at RKO
and later at MGM. He hit his stride at Warner Bros., where, between
1937 and 1942, he produced twelve films with such popular stars as
James Cagney (Each Dawn I Die), Humphrey Bogart (It All Came True),
Bette Davis (Dark Victory), Ronald Reagan (Kings Row), Errol Flynn
(Four's a Crowd), and Charles Boyer (All This and Heaven Too). His
films were nominated for a total of 15 Academy Awards, including
three for Best Picture. Some of Lewis's films have rightfully
become classics; all reflect an unerring instinct for character and
structure, part of the filmmaking process he describes in The
Creative Producer.
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