James Curtis - Creative Producer: A Memoir of the Studio System - David Lewis

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James Curtis

The Creative ProducerA Memoir of the Studio System, by David Lewis\nAuthor(s): James Curtis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Scarecrow Press, United States\nImprint: Scarecrow Press\nISBN-13: 9780810827202, 978-0810827202\nSynopsis\nIn 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewisone of his six \""supervisors\"" and a veteran of 15 feature filmsto director Michael Curtiz: \""That Lewis is a genius at getting scripts out of people who can't write!\"" Wallis knew that writing ultimately defined the job of the creative producer and that David Lewis had an uncanny talent for coaxing the best filmic material from the screenwriters he supervised.\n\nIn this memoir, Lewis describes his development as a production executive and how the associate producer helped make the famed studio system work. It was the producer (or \""supervisor\"", at Warners) who saw the script budgeted, cast the film, helped choose the director, and gently influenced the filming itself. Onc.