Biografia

25 luglio 1898 · Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti

12 maggio 1995 · Glendale, California, Stati Uniti (imprecisato)

Arthur William Lubovsky

1,78 m

Although Lubin was a contract director at Universal, on a set weekly salary, his first film with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Gianni e Pinotto reclute (1941), was such a huge hit ($4 million gross on a $180,000 budget) that the studio gave him a $5,000 bonus.

Possible victim of Efren Saldivar, a respiratory therapist and self-described mercy-killer and "angel of death," who confessed to killing dozens of seriously ill hospital patients by lethal injection at the Adventist Medical Center in Glendale, CA, beginning in 1989. Lubin was in a coma when he died.

[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.

[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.

Allegri naviganti (1941) - $350 /week (+$5000 bonus)

Gianni e Pinotto reclute (1946) - $350 /week (+$5000 bonus)