Lew Lipton

Lew Lipton , was an American screenwriter who was active during the latter part of the silent era and the beginning of the talking picture era. During his brief 15year career, he penned the scripts forfilms, as well as producing overfilm shorts. In 1935, he began work on a script entitled Harlem Cavalcade. He authored another halfdozen films during the remaining years of the 1930s, before devoting his efforts fulltime to this manuscript. Harlem Cavalcade was an epic story of life among BlackAmericans, beginning with their relationship to the Dutch community of New Amsterdam in 1626, through 1938. A series of vignettes, it incorporated the reallife stories of such notable Americans as Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, George Washington Carver, Joe Lewis, Satchel Paige, and Cab Calloway. Lipton worked on the script right up until his death in 1961. Lipton died on December 27, 1961, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

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