Of Mice and Men
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Biography: Lewis Milestone [Top] Lewis Milestone was an accomplished & award-winning motion picture director. He was born in Chisinau, Moldova, although at the time it was the Russian city of Kishinev & came to the United States just prior to World War I Milestone held a number of odd jobs before enlisting in the US Signal Corps, where he worked as an assistant director on Army training films during the war. After the war he went to Hollywood, where he first worked as a film cutter & later as an assistant director. Howard Hughes promoted Milestone to director & one of his early efforts, the 1928 film Two Arabian Knights, won him an Oscar in the first Academy Award ceremony. He also directed The Racket, an early gangster film & later helped Hughes direct scenes for his aviation saga Hells Angels. Milestone won his second Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, a screen adaptation of the antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque. His next, The Front Page, brought the Ben Hecht / Charles MacArthur play to the screen. It earned him another Oscar nomination. He worked extensively in television from the mid 1950s.
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