Lewis Meltzer

Lewis S. Meltzer was 29 when he was hired as a screenwriter at Columbia in 1939. In an incredibly short space of time, Meltzer worked his way up from the "B" unit to such big-budgeters as Golden Boy (1939), The Lady in Question (1940), Texas (1941) and Once Upon a Time (1944). He made occasional side trips during the 1940s to such rival studios as Paramount, Fox, Universal and RKO. Throughout the 1950s, Meltzer continued to be associated with such major releases as Man With the Golden Gun (1955) Autumn Leaves (1956). Lewis S. Meltzer's last screenwriting efforts were a pair of films for producer Albert Zugsmith, High School Confidential (1958) and The Beat Generation (1959).

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	The Beat Generation	Screenwriter	—	1959
70%	High School Confidential	Screenwriter	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Brothers Rico	Screenwriter	—	1957
89%	Autumn Leaves	Screenwriter	—	1956
86%	The Man With the Golden Arm	Screenwriter	—	1955
No Score Yet	Shark River	Screenwriter	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Jazz Singer	Screenwriter	—	1952
No Score Yet	Thunder in the East	Screenwriter	—	1952
No Score Yet	Along the Great Divide	Screenwriter	—	1951
No Score Yet	Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven	Screenwriter	—	1948
No Score Yet	Once upon a Time	Screenwriter	—	1944
No Score Yet	Destroyer	Screenwriter	—	1943
No Score Yet	First Comes Courage	Screenwriter	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Tuttles of Tahiti	Screenwriter	—	1942
No Score Yet	Texas	Screenwriter	—	1941
No Score Yet	Lady in Question	Screenwriter	—	1940
No Score Yet	Golden Boy	Screenwriter	—	1939
No Score Yet	Blind Alley	Screenwriter	—	1939

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