TY - DATA AU - Robinson, Harlow, TI - Lewis Milestone: life and films SN - 9780813178349 (ebook) : U1 - 791.430233092 PY - 2020/// CY - Lexington, Kentucky PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Milestone, Lewis, KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - United States KW - Biography N2 - This book tells the remarkable personal and professional story of Lewis Milestone (1895-1980), one of the most prolific, creative and respected film directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. Among his many films are the classics All Quiet on the Western Front, Of Mice and Men, A Walk in the Sun, Pork Chop Hill, the original Ocean's Eleven and Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando. Born in Ukraine, he came to America as a teenager and learned about film in the U.S. Army in World War I. By the early 1920s he was editing silent films in Hollywood, and soon graduated to shooting his own features. His films were nominated for 28 different Academy Awards during a career that lasted 40 years UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178332.001.0001 ER -