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Nat Levine (July 26, 1899 – August 6, 1989), was an American film producer. He produced 105 films between 1921 and 1946. Born in New York City, he entered the film industry as an accountant for Metro Pictures and became personal secretary to Metro head Marcus Loew.
Nat Levine est un producteur américain né le 26 juillet 1899 à New York, New York (États-Unis), décédé le 6 août 1989 à Woodland Hills (États-Unis). Biographie
Nat Levine. Producer: The Fatal Warning. New York-born Nat Levine got his start in show business when he dropped out of high school to take a job as an accountant with the Loew's theater chain, and eventually worked his way up to become personal secretary to Marcus Loew.
- July 26, 1899
- August 6, 1989
Nat Levine. Producer: The Fatal Warning. New York-born Nat Levine got his start in show business when he dropped out of high school to take a job as an accountant with the Loew's theater chain, and eventually worked his way up to become personal secretary to Marcus Loew.
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Mascot was created in 1927 by Nat Levine, a former personal secretary to Marcus Loew, after the success of his independent serial The Silent Flyer (1926). In the beginning the company operated out of the upstairs offices of a contractor's business on Santa Monica Boulevard. It rented all of its equipment and facilities. In 1929 the studio made seri...
By 1933 Mascot was successful enough to rent, and later buy, Sennett Studios, after the original owner, silent-film comedy producer-director Mack Sennett, went bankrupt because of the Great Depression. This made the company a true film studio. That studio lot is now CBS Studio Center. Mascot was responsible for the popularity of the concept of the ...
Mascot's film laboratory was Consolidated Film Industries, known today as CFI Industries. In 1935, under pressure from that company's owner, Herbert Yates, Mascot was merged by CFI with Monogram Pictures, Liberty Pictures, Chesterfield Pictures and Invincible Pictures to form Republic Pictures, a production-distribution company designed by Yates. L...
Additionally, 1. The Silent Flyer (1926) was created by Nat Levine but was not in the strict sense of the word a Mascot production.
The Vanishing Legion: A History of Mascot Pictures 1927–1935; Tuska, Jon; 1999 (McFarland Classics); ISBN 978-0-7864-0749-1
The Three Musketeers is a 1933 American pre-Code film serial directed by Armand Schaeffer and Colbert Clark, and produced by Nat Levine for Mascot Pictures.
Legend has it that producer and studio owner Nat Levine carried the sound discs in his lap from Los Angeles to New York City, by train and aeroplane, for them to be safely developed. For financial reasons, these discs could not have been repaired or replaced if anything had gone wrong.
