Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career.

* March 14 – Val Lewton, American producer and screenwriter ( b. 1904 )

From 1945 to 1946, Karloff appeared in three films for RKO produced by Val Lewton: Isle Of The Dead, The Body Snatcher, and Bedlam.

He got his first credited directing job in 1944 by replacing the original director on the stylish horror film The Curse of the Cat People, for Hollywood horror producer Val Lewton.

However, Wanger wanted to avoid confusion with the 1945 Val Lewton film The Body Snatcher.

Jonathan Shields is thought to be a blending of David O. Selznick, Orson Welles and Val Lewton.

She worked for producer Val Lewton in the horror / thriller Bedlam ( 1946 ) and had a lead role opposite Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan in Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die!

While working as the second unit director on the film A Tale of Two Cities he met film producer Val Lewton.

Cat People is a 1942 horror film produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur.

With the outbreak of World War II, she returned to Hollywood and worked for RKO Radio Pictures where she achieved her greatest successes in English language cinema with The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1941 ), Cat People ( 1942 ) and The Curse of the Cat People ( 1944 ); the latter two formed part of the horror film series produced by Val Lewton.

These ranged from uncredited bit parts to prominent roles in the Sherlock Holmes thriller Terror by Night, the all-star monster rally House of Dracula, and the Val Lewton production The Ghost Ship.

* Val Lewton ( 1904-1951 ), American film director

Val Lewton, Selznick's story editor, eventually passed on the script, so Selznick forced Hitchcock to offer it to other studios, " causing ill feelings between the producer and his director since it not only showed a lack of belief in Hitchcock's abilities, but also because the terms of Hitchcock's contract would net Selznick a three-hundred percent profit on the sale.

Some critics have praised the atmosphere of the film, comparing it to the 1940s horror film productions of Val Lewton, while others still have an unfavorable opinion on the quality of the acting.

Time Out London wrote, " Halperin shoots this poetic melodrama as trance ; ... The unique result constitutes a virtual bridge between classic Universal horror and the later Val Lewton productions.

Edward G. Bansk, a Val Lewton biographer, identified several flaws in White Zombie, including poor acting, bad timing and other " haphazard and sloppy " film aspects.

The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton.

The Curse of the Cat People is available as part of the Cat People double feature DVD which itself is part of the Val Lewton Horror Collection DVD box from Warner Home Video.

Val Lewton ( May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951 ) was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.

In 1909, they emigrated to the United States, where his name was changed to Val Lewton.

A documentary film, Martin Scorsese Presents: Val Lewton – The Man in the Shadows, was released in 2007.

* Darkness, Darkness: The Films of Val Lewton

* The Val Lewton B-Unit Page Bio, Photos, Lewton Books

The cast also comprised Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten, Joseph Du Val, Gerald Mohr, Frank Lovejoy, Herb Vigran, Sheldon Leonard, William Conrad, Jeff Chandler, Lionel Stander, Sidney Miller, Olive Deering and Joe De Santis.

Karloff appeared in three of producer Val Lewton's atmospheric B-pictures for RKO Pictures in the mid-1940s, including The Body Snatcher ( 1945 ), which also featured Lugosi.

In same period ( R. D n. 2490 of November 9 year 1923 ) the 17 Municipalities of the “ Circondario ” Castelnuovo Garfagnana were removed them also all that were assigned to the province of Lucca in order to compensate it of the passage to the new province of Pistoia of all the municipalities of the Val di Nievole.

Occitan (; ; ), known also as Lenga d ' òc by its native speakers (; ), is a Romance language spoken in southern France, Italy's Occitan Valleys, Monaco, and Spain's Val d ' Aran: the regions sometimes known unofficially as Occitania.

He also approved the religious congregation " Val des Ecoliers " ( Valley of scholars ), which had been founded by four pious professors of theology at the University of Paris.

The following year she gained further critical acclaim for her role as Harvey Keitel's estranged daughter in Wayne Wang's Smoke and also as Val Kilmer's wife in Michael Mann's Heat.

The Prince of Orange William IV and the Duke of Cumberland suffered a severe defeat at Lauffeld ( Lawfeld, also called Val ) on 2 July 1747, and Saxe, after his victory, promptly and secretly despatched a corps under Marshal Lowendahl ( 1700 – 1755 ) to besiege Bergen op Zoom.

The term is also used for the government of the semi-autonomous comarca of Val d ' Aran, the Generalitat a l ' Aran.

The Generalitat a l ' Aran was legally created by the 2006 modification of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, although the Val d ' Aran had also enjoyed considerable autonomy within Catalonia under the 1979 Statute of Autonomy.

Angers is also both at the edge of the Val de Loire, a World Heritage Site, and the Loire-Anjou-Touraine regional natural park.

In addition to Castilian Spanish being the primary official language of Spain, the kingdom also has several co-official regional languages which enjoy equal and unbiased constitutional protection and promotion: Catalan / Valencian ( in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands ), Galician ( in Galicia ), Basque ( in the Basque Country and Navarre ) and Aranese ( in Val d ' Aran, Catalonia ).

The city is served by three school districts: the Perris Elementary School District, Perris Union High School District and the Val Verde Unified School District, which also serves the southern part of Moreno Valley.

Western Lombard is also spoken, primarily in the region of Val Poschiavo, though it has no official recognition.

* Seraing also counts a number of colourful associations, including a coopers ’ brotherhood, whose goal is to revive the wineries of the Val Saint Lambert abbey, and the “ Gay Boulet ” brotherhood, whose mission is to popularize the “ Boulet Liégeois ”, a local recipe.

The region is also called the Val de Salm, and Salm region.

It has been proposed to rename the region Val de Loire ( i. e. " Valley of the Loire ") or also " Coeur de Loire " ( i. e. " Heart of Loire ), which would give more character to the name of the region.

One of the most well known was the supposed crucifixion of the boy Saint Domingo of Val in Zaragosa in the 13th century and also the boy of Sepúlveda in 1468.

Saint Dominguito del Val ( died c. 1250 ) was a choirboy and the alleged victim of a ritual murder by Jews in Zaragoza ( also known as Saragossa ).

It was also the basis for the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness with Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer.

Several Prisoner actors have also trod British stages appearing in both drama and pantomime, such as Val Lehman ( Wizard of Oz / Beatrix Potter and Misery ), Peta Toppano, Fiona Spence, Maggie Dence ( Bev Baker ), Debra Lawrance ( Daphne Graham ), Linda Hartley ( Roach Waters ), Ian Smith ( Ted Douglas ) and Maggie Millar ( Marie Winter ).

During her time on Blue Peter, Singleton also presented another BBC children's show, Val Meets ...

Guido also confesses to Madrox that Val Cooper's offer to be sheriff of Mutant Town has been rescinded because of the sheer lack of mutants.

He soon rejoined Morley, who had also become a fan favorite and reverted back to his Val Venis character.

Val Trebbia is served from Piacenza providing regular public bus service from Piacenza via Rivergaro, Bobbio, Marsaglia, Ponte Organasco, Brass, Brass depart from the bus routes that connect the upper Val Genoese Trebbia with Genoa, but also the line Brass Bridge-Organasco-Varzi and then Oltrepò Pavia.