He helped blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo clear his name and shared an Oscar nomination with his late wife, Mildred Lewis.
and shared an Oscar nomination with his wife, Mildred Lewis, for producing Costa-Gavras' Lewis died July 27 at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter Susan Lewis told . Mildred died April 7 at age 98, she also revealed, and she was his "indispensable partner" for 73 years as they worked together on movies, musicals and novels.
Edward Lewis also produced or executive produced nine films directed by John Frankenheimer, including the classics For , Lewis arranged for Trumbo to write the screenplay, based on the 1951 novel by Howard Fast , with the producer serving as Trumbo's "front" as he presented the script to Universal Studios.
Only after Universal had spent $8 million making the movie did Lewis reveal the true author of the screenplay. When the studio agreed to the proper credit, Trumbo wrote that Lewis had "risked his name to help a man who'd lost his name."star Kirk Douglas, who executive produced the film through his Bryna Productions, also receives a wealth of credit in getting Trumbo his due. Lewis, however, did not go to any lengths to publicize his role.
, which starred Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek and earned writer-director Costa-Gavras an Oscar for adapted screenplay. The thriller won the Palme d’Or at Cannes but lost out at the Academy Awards to Harold and Maude The List of Adrian Messenger
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