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Lewis Milestone
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: September 30, 1895 in Kishinew, Ukraine, Russia Death: September 25, 1980 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:"Lewis Milestone" (born Lewis Milstein in the Ukraine) came to the U.S. as a teenager, and while in the Army during World War I was an assistant director on training films. In Hollywood, he began working as an editor, and after writing and assistant directing in the early 1920s, he helmed his first feature for producer "Howard Hughes", "Seven Sinners" (1925). Milestone's comedy "Two Arabian Knights" (1927) was widely admired, but the director didn't hit his stride until 1930 with "All Quiet on the Western Front", his landmark adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's war novel. In the '30s Milestone scored major achievements in several genres, including comedy ("The Front Page" [1931]), musical ("Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" [1933]), and espionage ("The General Died at Dawn" [1936]); he capped the decade with his classic drama "Of Mice And Men" (1939), adaptated from "John Steinbeck"'s novella. Notable among... Full Biography
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