Background
Curtis, James Richard was born on November 16, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Richard Borah and Dorothy Dawn Curtis.
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In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewis―one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of 15 feature films―to 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. In 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. Once shooting was complete, it was the producer who stayed with the project through editing and previews. David Lewis (1903-1987) was an associate producer at RKO and later at MGM. He hit his stride at Warner Bros., where, between 1937 and 1942, he produced twelve films with such popular stars as James Cagney (Each Dawn I Die), Humphrey Bogart (It All Came True), Bette Davis (Dark Victory), Ronald Reagan (Kings Row), Errol Flynn (Four's a Crowd), and Charles Boyer (All This and Heaven Too). His films were nominated for a total of 15 Academy Awards, including three for Best Picture. Some of Lewis's films have rightfully become classics; all reflect an unerring instinct for character and structure, part of the filmmaking process he describes in The Creative Producer.
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Writer-director Preston Sturges set a new standard for creativity in Hollywood. Three volumes of his screenplays have been published, and he is acknowledged as one of the grand masters of screen comedy. Between Flops was the first full-length biography of this great American humorist."One of the most entertaining and engrossing film biographies I've encountered, doing justice not only to that truly eccentric genius at the core, but also to his time and place in both Hollywood and our culture." Judith Crist"A sobering picture of the sweat and disappointment that lie beneath the Hollywood hoopla." Newsweek
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To the American public, she will always be remembered as the woman who had a grapefruit ground into her face by James Cagney in the 1931 film classic Public Enemy. In fact, in an acting career that spanned nearly four decades, Mae Clarke appeared in nearly 100 feature films and logged in nearly as many television appearances. During the two years before she died at the age of 82, Mae Clarke spent many hours reliving those years. In a series of candid and often poignant interviews, she talks about her years in Hollywood, her failed marriage, and her health problems.
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Curtis, James Richard was born on November 16, 1953 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Richard Borah and Dorothy Dawn Curtis.
Associate of Arts in Telecommunications, Fullerton College, 1974. Bachelor in Communications, California State University, 1979.
Instructional designer Insgroup, Inc., Huntington Beach, California, 1979-1980. Senior technical writer MSI Data Corporation, Costa Mesa, 1981-1983, director corporation communications, 1983-1985. Director communications California Dental Health Plan, Tustin, 1986-1990.
Vice president communications and product coordination Dental Plan American, 1990—1994. Freelance marketing consultant Brea, since 1995.
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(To the American public, she will always be remembered as ...)
(Writer-director Preston Sturges set a new standard for cr...)
Member of Authors Guild American.
Married Debra Reed, June 7, 1978 (divorced 1992). Married Kim Geary, January 1, 1994.