January 26, 1982
Albert Lewin (September 23, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He produced several of MGM’s most important films of the 1930s. After Irving Thalberg’s death, he joined Paramount as a producer in 1937, where he remained until 1941. In 1942, Lewin began to direct, and eventually made six films, writing all of them and producing several himself. As a director and writer, he showed literary and cultural aspirations in the selection and treatment of his themes.
Deleuze briefly refers to his film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) in his seminar of 26 January 1982.