Lew Lipton

{{Short description|American actor}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2017}}

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| name = Lew Lipton

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|2|23}}

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|1961|12|27|1897|2|23}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, United States

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| occupation = Screenwriter, producer

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| yearsactive = 1925–1939

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Lew Lipton (February 23, 1897 – December 27, 1961), 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 15-year career, he penned the scripts for 24 films, as well as producing over 20 film shorts.{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&Type=WP&Tbl=PN&CatID=&ID=98542&searchedFor= Lew Lipton&SortType=ASC&SortCol=RELEASE_YEAR | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Lew Lipton | accessdate=March 16, 2015}} In 1935, he began work on a script entitled Harlem Cavalcade. He authored another half-dozen films during the remaining years of the 1930s, before devoting his efforts full-time to this manuscript. Harlem Cavalcade was an epic story of life among Black-Americans, beginning with their relationship to the Dutch community of New Amsterdam in 1626, through 1938. A series of vignettes, it incorporated the real-life 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/pdf/mss0099_0868.pdf | publisher=University of Delaware | title=Lipton, Lew, 1893-1961 | accessdate=March 16, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623224223/http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/pdf/mss0099_0868.pdf | archivedate=June 23, 2013}} Lipton died on December 27, 1961, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.{{cite web | url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lipton&GSfn=Lew&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=112692296&df=all& | publisher=Find a Grave | title=Lew Lipton | accessdate=March 16, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317041010/http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lipton&GSfn=Lew&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=112692296&df=all& | archivedate=March 17, 2015}}