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Also Known As Lev Milstein
Born September 30, 1895 • Chișinău • Moldova
Died September 25, 1980 (aged 84) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1931) • Academy Award (1929)
Notable Works “A Walk in the Sun” • “All Quiet on the Western Front” • “Anything Goes” • “Arch of Triumph” • “Betrayal” • “Edge of Darkness” • “Hallelujah, I’m a Bum” • “Halls of Montezuma” • “Mutiny on the Bounty” • “Ocean’s Eleven” • “Of Mice and Men” • “Rain” • “The Captain Hates the Sea” • “The Front Page” • “The General Died at Dawn” • “The North Star” • “The Purple Heart” • “The Racket” • “The Red Pony” • “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” • “Two Arabian Knights”

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Trevor Howard as Captain William Bligh and Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian stand in naval uniforms among crew and islanders in a scene from Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
Gary Cooper, Emil Jannings, and Esther Ralston in a dramatic scene from the 1929 film Betrayal, with Cooper and Jannings standing beside a concerned Ralston.
Lew Ayres, in a helmet and uniform, sits injured in a trench while Raymond Griffith kneels beside him, gripping his arm, in a scene from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
Tarita as Maimiti places a flower lei around Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian in a jungle setting in the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
Lew Ayres, in military uniform, kneels beside a wounded, dying soldier lying in a muddy trench in a sepia-toned scene from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
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