American film producer David Lewis was BOTD in 1903. Born in Trinidad, Colorado, he moved to Hollywood in his 20s, where he became the assistant and live-in lover of Frankenstein director James Whale. Supported by Whale, he worked as a screenwriter on the 1932 B-movie Come on Dancer!, perhaps wisely abandoning the pen and shifting into film production. After co-producing a series of genre films for RKO studios, he moved into prestige projects, working as an associate producer on George Cukor‘s film Camille starring Greta Garbo and Edmund Goulding‘s Dark Victory with Bette Davis, both of which were critical and commercial hits. His first project as lead producer, the 1946 wartime melodrama Tomorrow Is Forever, starred Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles, followed by the film noir The Other Love with Barbara Stanwyck and Arch of Triumph with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Laughton. In 1952, he and Whale separated after Whale moved in his new lover, a 25 year-old bartender Pierre Foegel. He and Whale remained friends until Whale’s death in 1957, and he became Whale’s executor. In the 1950s, Lewis produced two high-profile literary adaptations: The End of the Affair, based on Graham Greene’s novel and starring Deborah Kerr, and The Seventh Sin starring Eleanor Parker and George Sanders, based on W. Somerset Maugham‘s novel The Painted Veil. Largely retired by the 1960s, his final screen credit was an executive producer for Barbet Schroeder’s 1969 film More. He died in 1987, aged 83, and had his ashes interred near Whale’s in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. He was played by David Dukes in Bill Condon‘s 1998 Whale biopic Gods and Monsters.