David Lewis (born David Levy; December 14, 1903 – March 13, 1987) was a prominent American 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 romantic partner 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.Curtis, James (1998). James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters. Boston, Faber and Faber. , p. 389
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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