Arthur Lubin
Birthday: July 25, 1898 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: Arthur William Lubovsky
Height: 178 cm
A graduate of Carnegie Tech, Arthur Lubin entered films as an actor in the 1920s, and after appearing in many films turned to directing in 1934, mainly for Universal. His forte was light comedy, but h ...Show More
[on directing Bud Abbott and Lou Costello] I found that if we rehearsed too much with them, their ma Show more
[on directing Bud Abbott and Lou Costello] I found that if we rehearsed too much with them, their material got stale and they'd start adding things that didn't mean anything. All I needed a rehearsal for was to place my cameras. There was nothing I could tell them because no one could direct their routines as well as they. Hide
[on directing Bud Abbott and Lou Costello] Because Lou never did a scene the same way twice, I shot Show more
[on directing Bud Abbott and Lou Costello] Because Lou never did a scene the same way twice, I shot all their scenes simultaneously: a close-up of Lou, because he had such a dollface, and a close two-shot. I usually tried to have a camera on a dolly so I could move with them. You couldn't keep them in one position; Lou was all over the place. This actually saved time and money, because they always knew what they were going to do when they walked on a set. Hide
Arthur Lubin's FILMOGRAPHY
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