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Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with a third nomination for The Front Page (1931).
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entertainment · Russian-American filmmaker (1895–1980) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · film editor · actor · director · also Lewis Milestone, Leib Milstein, Milestone
Born 30 September 1895 · Died 25 September 1980 · Q285928
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2026· 2 entries
“how can you make a pacifist film without showing the violence of war?”
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1980· 2 entries
Died 1980-09-25.
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At UCLA Medical Center, five days before his 85th birthday
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1978· 1 entry
Shortly after the death of Kendall Lee, his wife of 43 years
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1958· 1 entry
Milestone directed actor Richard Boone, who debuted in Milestone's Kangaroo (1952), in two episodes of the television western Have Gun – Will Travel
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1957· 2 entries
The North Star was reissued as Armored Attack in a heavily edited form; sequences that celebrate life under the Stalinist regime were removed
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Milestone directed episodes of television drama series, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (two episodes), Schlitz Playhouse (two episodes), and Suspicion (one episode)
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1954· 1 entry
And adapted by Milestone from a novel by Susan York
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1948· 1 entry
The anti-communist writer Myron Fagan implied that Milestone was a Red sympathizer, [a claim made explicit] by Hedda Hopper in her nationally syndicated Hollywood column
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1946· 1 entry
Partnered with Republic Pictures, an amalgamation of "Poverty Row" studios known for low-budget westerns but now prepared to invest in a major production
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1940· 1 entry
Milestone depicted the struggle of Russian villagers to resist the German invasion
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1936· 1 entry
With The General Died at Dawn, which is reminiscent in theme, setting, and style of director Josef von Sternberg's The Shanghai Express
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1935· 1 entry
Milestone and actor Kendall Lee, whose full name was Kendall Lee Glaezner, were married
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director (Comedy Picture) for Two Arabian Knights (1929).
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1927· 1 entry
Prevailing over Charlie Chaplin's The Circus (1928)
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1923· 1 entry
Milestone followed Seiter to Warner Brothers studios as assistant director on Little Church Around the Corner (1923), completing most of the film-making tasks on the production
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1920· 1 entry
Was chosen as general assistant to director Henry King at Pathé Exchange
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1917· 1 entry
Shortly after the US entered World War I, he enlisted in the Army Signal Corps
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-09-30.
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