(Russian: Владимир Иванович Левентон)
Val Lewton was an American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
Lewton, born Vladimir Ivan Leventon, was born in what is now Yalta, Ukraine. He was a nephew of the actress Alla Nazimova. In 1909, he immigrated with his sister and mother to the United States, where his name was changed to Val Lewton. He was raised in suburban Port Chester, New York.
He studied journalism at Columbia University and authored eighteen works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Lewton once lost his job as a reporter for the Darien-Stamford Review after it was discovered that a story he wrote about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication.
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EDITED INFO:
Val Lewton location; According to his death certificate, Val Lewton was interred at Westwood Memorial Park.
Volunteer's Profile; Faigh Uaigh (47019209)
although stated he is interred at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California,
volunteer searched all and found nothing....
Reported Problem: I searched the entire cemetery and could not find the grave
Details: No one with surname Lewton in the Columbarium.
Volunteer's Profile pboren (47316184)
Val Lewton was an American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
Lewton, born Vladimir Ivan Leventon, was born in what is now Yalta, Ukraine. He was a nephew of the actress Alla Nazimova. In 1909, he immigrated with his sister and mother to the United States, where his name was changed to Val Lewton. He was raised in suburban Port Chester, New York.
He studied journalism at Columbia University and authored eighteen works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Lewton once lost his job as a reporter for the Darien-Stamford Review after it was discovered that a story he wrote about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication.
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EDITED INFO:
Val Lewton location; According to his death certificate, Val Lewton was interred at Westwood Memorial Park.
Volunteer's Profile; Faigh Uaigh (47019209)
although stated he is interred at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California,
volunteer searched all and found nothing....
Reported Problem: I searched the entire cemetery and could not find the grave
Details: No one with surname Lewton in the Columbarium.
Volunteer's Profile pboren (47316184)
(Russian: Владимир Иванович Левентон)
Val Lewton was an American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
Lewton, born Vladimir Ivan Leventon, was born in what is now Yalta, Ukraine. He was a nephew of the actress Alla Nazimova. In 1909, he immigrated with his sister and mother to the United States, where his name was changed to Val Lewton. He was raised in suburban Port Chester, New York.
He studied journalism at Columbia University and authored eighteen works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Lewton once lost his job as a reporter for the Darien-Stamford Review after it was discovered that a story he wrote about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication.
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EDITED INFO:
Val Lewton location; According to his death certificate, Val Lewton was interred at Westwood Memorial Park.
Volunteer's Profile; Faigh Uaigh (47019209)
although stated he is interred at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California,
volunteer searched all and found nothing....
Reported Problem: I searched the entire cemetery and could not find the grave
Details: No one with surname Lewton in the Columbarium.
Volunteer's Profile pboren (47316184)
Val Lewton was an American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
Lewton, born Vladimir Ivan Leventon, was born in what is now Yalta, Ukraine. He was a nephew of the actress Alla Nazimova. In 1909, he immigrated with his sister and mother to the United States, where his name was changed to Val Lewton. He was raised in suburban Port Chester, New York.
He studied journalism at Columbia University and authored eighteen works of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Lewton once lost his job as a reporter for the Darien-Stamford Review after it was discovered that a story he wrote about a truckload of kosher chickens dying in a New York heat wave was a total fabrication.
===============================
EDITED INFO:
Val Lewton location; According to his death certificate, Val Lewton was interred at Westwood Memorial Park.
Volunteer's Profile; Faigh Uaigh (47019209)
although stated he is interred at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California,
volunteer searched all and found nothing....
Reported Problem: I searched the entire cemetery and could not find the grave
Details: No one with surname Lewton in the Columbarium.
Volunteer's Profile pboren (47316184)
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