You Must Remember This #3: Happy 110th Birthday, Val Lewton!

Summary: A Very Special Halloween Episode! The writer-producer Val Lewton produced and ghost-wrote 11 films in just three years as head of the horror unit at RKO, many of which -- Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie, The Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher -- were huge hits, helping to keep the troubled studio afloat in the early 1940s, and becoming influential genre film classics. On today -- which would have been Lewton's 110th birthday, if not for his untimely death in 1951 -- we take a look back at his life and career, and ask the question: did Hollywood kill Val Lewton?