David Lewis

David Lewis Biography

David Lewis (14 December 1903 in Trinidad, Colorado – 13 March 1987 in Los Angeles), born David Levy, was a prominent Hollywood film producer in the 1940s and 1950s, who produced such films as Dark Victory (1939), Arch of Triumph (1948), and Raintree County (1957). He worked for Warner Brothers, Paramount and M-G-M and was elected a vice president of Enterprise Productions, Inc. in 1946.

He was also the longtime companion of director James Whale from 1930 to 1952. Although they were separated at the time of Whale's death in 1957, Lewis later released the contents of Whale's suicide note. Whale was cremated per his request and his ashes were interred in the Columbarium of Memory at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. When David Lewis died in 1987, his executor and Whale biographer James Curtis had his ashes interred in a niche across from Whale's.

Lewis was portrayed in the 1998 film Gods and Monsters by David Dukes.

Filmography

Producer

Associate producer

Writer

Come on Danger!, 1932 (screenplay)
Sinner's Parade, 1928 (story)

Bibliography

James Curtis, James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters, Faber & Faber, 1998
Boze Hadleigh, Hollywood Gays , Barricade Books,1996
James Curtis, The creative producer, Scarecrow Press, 1993

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