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Lev Milstein, de nombre artístico Lewis Milestone (Chisináu, 30 de septiembre de 1895 - 25 de septiembre de 1980) fue un director estadounidense, ganador de dos Premios Óscar como mejor director.
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Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein (Russian: Лейб Мильштейн); September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was an American film director. Milestone directed Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received the Academy Award for Best Director.
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- September 25, 1980 (aged 84), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- 1915–1964
Lewis Milestone. Director: All Quiet on the Western Front. Lewis Milestone, a clothing manufacturer's son, was born in Bessarabia (now Moldova), raised in Odessa (Ukraine) and educated in Belgium and Berlin (where he studied engineering). He was fluent in both German and Russian and an avid reader.
- Director, Writer, Producer
- September 30, 1895
- Lewis Milestone
- September 25, 1980
LEWIS MILESTONE. (1895-1980) Director del Hollywood clásico, ganador de dos Premios Oscar, Lewis Milestone (de apellido real Milstein) nació en la localidad de Chisinau (Moldavia) el 30 de septiembre del año 1895. En su temprana adolescencia se trasladó a los Estados Unidos.
- Overview
- Early work
- Films of the 1930s
- War dramas
- Later work
Lewis Milestone, (born September 30, 1895, Kishinyov, Russia [now Chișinău, Moldova]—died September 25, 1980, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), Russian-born American film director who was especially known for his realistic dramas, many of which were literary adaptations. His most-notable films include All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), A Walk in the Sun (1945), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
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After immigrating to the United States in 1913, Milstein eventually changed his name to Lewis Milestone and became a U.S. citizen. During World War I he served as an assistant director on training films for the U.S. Army. He launched his Hollywood career in 1920, working for Henry King. In 1925 Milestone made his directorial debut with Seven Sinners; he also wrote the screenplay. Two years later he directed Two Arabian Knights, for which he later won the first and only Academy Award for best direction of a comedy picture. (In 1930 the comedy and drama categories were merged.)
The Racket (1928) was a silent film adaptation of a hit Broadway play and received an Oscar nomination for best picture. In 1929 Milestone directed Betrayal, a drama featuring Emil Jannings and Gary Cooper, and New York Nights, which was Norma Talmadge’s sound debut.
An avid reader of literature, Milestone next made a movie version of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, which, when released in 1930, cemented his reputation as a top-flight director. The antiwar classic follows several young German men (played by Lew Ayres and others) who lose their illusions and their lives as they fight in World War I. It was one of 1930’s biggest hits and won an Academy Award for best picture. In addition, Milestone received his second Oscar for best director. Milestone next made The Front Page (1931), an acclaimed version of the Ben Hecht–Charles MacArthur play of the same name that starred Pat O’Brien and Adolphe Menjou as fast-talking cynical newspapermen. It was a box-office success and is widely regarded as one of Hollywood’s most-accomplished farces. The film earned an Academy Award nomination for best picture, and Milestone received his final Oscar nod for best director.
Rain (1932), an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s short story, seemed like another sure-fire hit—star Joan Crawford was cast as Sadie Thompson, a prostitute in Pago Pago, and Walter Huston played the island missionary who attempts to reform her while growing increasingly attracted to her. The drama, however, was a box-office disappointment, as were several subsequent films. Hallelujah, I’m a Bum! (1933), an inventive musical drama that featured rhyming dialogue, failed to find an audience, despite starring Al Jolson. The Captain Hates the Sea (1934) was a zany comedy that tried to blend such disparate elements as John Gilbert, Victor McLaglen, and the Three Stooges.
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After the forgettable comedies Lucky Partners (1940) and My Life with Caroline (1941), Milestone collaborated with Dutch director Joris Ivens on Our Russian Front (1942), a documentary (narrated by Walter Huston) that was made to spur support for Russia during the war. Edge of Darkness (1943) was a top-notch war picture, with Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, and Huston as residents of a Nazi-occupied village in Norway who are involved in the resistance. The North Star (1943) was another war drama. It centres on Ukrainian peasants (headed by a village doctor played by Huston) who rise up against the Nazi invaders; Eric von Stroheim, Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, and Farley Granger lent able support. However, Lillian Hellman’s script gave the picture a political tone that would land the filmmakers in trouble with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) just a few years later.
In 1944 Milestone received praise for The Purple Heart, a stirring tale (cowritten by Darryl F. Zanuck) about U.S. Air Force crewmen (Andrews, Richard Conte, and Granger, among others) who are shot down over Tokyo and tried for war crimes by the Japanese. A Walk in the Sun (1945) was a stylistically adventurous war drama, adapted by Robert Rossen from the novel by Harry Brown. The film focuses almost entirely on the states of mind of several soldiers (Andrews, Conte, and John Ireland) as they try to take a Nazi-held farmhouse in Italy. The effect is closer to the antiwar message of All Quiet on the Western Front than to the gung-ho heroics of most World War II pictures.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) was a departure for Milestone, an effective film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, and (in his film debut) Kirk Douglas. Arch of Triumph (1948), adapted from the Remarque novel and coscripted by Milestone, was a romance set in wartime France between a refugee (Charles Boyer) and a woman (Ingrid Bergman) he saves from a suicide attempt. The Red Pony (1949) was an adaptation by Steinbeck of his book of four related stories. The coming-of-age film centres on a boy (Peter Miles) who bonds with his pony; Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum gave fine performances, and Aaron Copland wrote the acclaimed film score.
Milestone returned to war dramas with Halls of Montezuma (1950), a rousing if conventional tale about marines who are tasked with finding a Japanese rocket base; the exceptional cast included Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Karl Malden, and Jack Webb.
Although suspected of having communist leanings, Milestone was never called to testify before the HUAC, and he was never officially blacklisted. However, for much of the 1950s, he struggled to find film assignments. After a two-year absence, he returned to the big screen in 1952 with both Kangaroo, an adventure with Maureen O’Hara and Peter Lawford shot on location in Australia, and Les Miserables, a respectable adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel. Milestone then directed the British productions Melba (1953), a biopic about Australian opera singer Nellie Melba, and the low-budget war drama They Who Dare (1954). After the Italian-French production La vedova X (1955; also known as The Widow), Milestone worked in television for a few years.
Toward the end of the 1950s, Milestone’s “graylisting” was lifted. He subsequently filmed Pork Chop Hill (1959), a hard-boiled Korean War movie with a cast headed by Gregory Peck, Rip Torn, George Peppard, and Woody Strode. Next was the heist film Ocean’s Eleven (1960), which starred, among others, the “Rat Pack”: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Michael Barson
Lewis Milestone ( 30 de septiembre de 1895, Besarabia , Imperio Ruso , (actual Ucrania) - 25 de septiembre de 1980, Los Ángeles , California, Estados Unidos ), director cinematográfico estadounidense de origen ucraniano. Inicia su carrera de director con Seven Sinner (1925), después de ser guionista y camarógrafo.
Lewis Milestone. Director: All Quiet on the Western Front. Lewis Milestone, a clothing manufacturer's son, was born in Bessarabia (now Moldova), raised in Odessa (Ukraine) and educated in Belgium and Berlin (where he studied engineering). He was fluent in both German and Russian and an avid reader.
