Sonya Levien

Sonya Levien

Nascimento : 1888-12-25, Russia

Morte : 1960-03-20

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sonya Levien (born Sara Opesken; 25 December 1888 – 19 March 1960) was a Russian-born American screenwriter. She became one of the highest earning female screenwriters in Hollywood in the 1930s and would help a number of directors and film stars transition from silent films to talkies. In 1955 she received an Academy Award for her screenplay Interrupted Melody.

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Sonya Levien

Filmes

Feira de Ilusões
Adaptation
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and cooking. However, their restless daughter Margy and her brother Wayne meet attractive new love interests.
Pepe
Story
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Jeanne Eagels
Screenplay
Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920's stage star Jeanne Eagels.
A Encruzilhada dos Destinos
Screenplay
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Oklahoma!
Screenplay
Ambientado na Oklahoma do início da década de 1900, "Oklahoma!" conta a história de Curly (Gordon MacRae), um rancheiro extrovertido e bem-humorado, e de Laurey Williams (Shirley Jones), a filha do fazendeiro e dona do coração de Curly. O problema é que também há o ameaçador Jud (Rod Steiger), que tenta impedir os apaixonados de ficarem juntos. Com coreografia de Agnes de Mille, a trilha sonora contém clássicos como "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning", "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top", "People Will Say We're In Love" e "Oklahoma!". Este é o primeiro trabalho conjunto de Rodgers e Hammerstein, dando origem à mais criativa parceria da história dos musicais de cinema.
Melodia Interrompida
Writer
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.
Hit the Deck
Screenplay
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
The Student Prince
Screenplay
A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
A Viúva Alegre
Screenplay
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Quo Vadis
Screenplay
Após três anos em campanha, o general Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) retorna à Roma e encontra Lygia (Deborah Kerr), por quem se apaixona. Ela é uma cristã e não quer nenhum envolvimento com um guerreiro. Mas, apesar de ter sido criada como romana, Lygia é a filha adotiva de um general aposentado e, teoricamente, uma refém de Roma. Marcus procura o imperador Nero (Peter Ustinov), para que ela lhe seja dada pelos serviços que ele fez. Lygia se ressente, mas de alguma forma se apaixona por Marcus. Enquanto isso, as atrocidades de Nero são cada vez mais ultrajantes e, quando ele queima Roma e culpa os cristãos, Marcus salva Lygia e a família dela. Nero captura todos os cristãos e os atira aos leões mas, no final, Marcus, Lygia e o cristianismo prevalecerão. Na filmagem da obra de Sienkiewicz, foram utilizados cerca de 32 mil figurinos e milhares de figurantes, dentre eles então os 'desconhecidos' Bud Spencer, Sophia Loren (então com 17 anos) e Elizabeth Taylor.
Three Daring Daughters
Screenplay
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Eterno Conflito
Adaptation
O juiz Cass Timberlane se casa com uma garota do lado errado dos trilhos, Virginia Marshland. Um bebê nasce morto e ela se volta cada vez mais para o advogado amigo de Cass ', Bradd Criley. Enquanto discutia, o juiz diz a Virginia para ficar com Bradd, mas quando ela fica doente, ele a traz para casa.
Anos de Ternura
Screenplay
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
Corações Enamorados
Adaptation
Durante sua visita anual à Feira Estadual de Iowa, a família Frake desfruta de muitas aventuras. O patriarca orgulhoso Abel (Charles Winninger) tem grandes esperanças para seu campeão de suínos Blueboy, e sua esposa Melissa (Fay Bainter) entra no concurso de picadinho e picles... com resultados hilários. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Rapsódia Azul
Story
Ascensão de George Gershwin, de uma editora musical em Manhattan aos píncaros da fama internacional. O excesso de trabalho cobra seu preço e Gershwin falece aos trinta e nove anos, de hemorragia cerebral, em 1937.
O Vale da Decisão
Screenplay
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Sempre Tua
Story
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
A Vida é Um Teatro
Screenplay
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
O Corcunda de Notre Dame
Screenplay
Esta produção estrelada por Charles Laughton, que estava no auge de sua carreira quando personificou Quasímodo (o Corcunda), recebeu duas indicações ao Oscar, em 1939. É provavelmente, a melhor interpretação dada ao triste personagem, morador da Catedral de Notre Dame, que perambula pelos impressionantes cenários de Paris, criados especialmente para o filme, em Hollywood. Maureen O'Hara está perfeita como a linda cigana Esmeralda, pela qual Quasímodo se apaixona desesperadamente, a ponto de romper a paz da imponente e secular Catedral, aterrorizando a população.
Ao Rufar dos Tambores
Screenplay
Albany, Nova York, 1776. Magdelana Borst e Gilbert Martin casam-se e vão para o Vale do Mohawk, no norte. Devido aos constantes ataques dos índios fogem, juntamente com outros colonos do vale, para um forte próximo, de onde assistem aos índios a destruírem suas fazendas e cabanas. Sarah McKlennar, uma solteirona com uma grande fazenda, vai ajudá-los e contrata Gilbert para trabalhar no campo, dando aos Martin um lugar para ficar. A vida dura da fazenda não é boa para Lana, que foi criada na riqueza e em boas condições. Com o tempo ela começa a gostar da nova vida no Vale do Mohawk, especialmente depois de dar à luz o primeiro filho. Gilbert une-se à milícia que precisa lutar contra as tribos locais, com os soldados britânicos incitando-os para a batalha. Gilbert volta ferido e, enquanto se recupera, há uma grande colheita nos campos. Porém a alegria dura pouco, pois os índios mais uma vez invadem as terras dos colonos.
O Cowboy e a Granfina
Screenplay
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Kidnapped
Writer
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Kidnapped
Screenplay
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Four Men and a Prayer
Screenplay
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
In Old Chicago
Screenplay
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Reunion
Writer
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
The Country Doctor
Screenplay
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Perdida na Metrópole
Story
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds (Pinky Tomlin) and a beautiful Russian singer (Rita Hayworth) provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child (Jane Withers) who has arrived illegally in New York. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 comedy, with numerous songs, also features Jane Darwell, George Givot, Robert Dudley, Vera Lewis, Louise Carter, Francis Ford, Russell Simpson and Clarence Wilson.
Here's to Romance
Story
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Navy Wife
Writer
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
O Seu Primeiro Amor
Screenplay
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
As Husbands Go
Writer
As Husbands Go charts the romantic misadventures of Lucille Lingard .
Mr. Skitch
Writer
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
Berkeley Square
Screenplay
A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
The Warrior's Husband
Writer
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
State Fair
Screenplay
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Cavalgada
Continuity
A história de uma família inglesa da virada do século 19, desde a Véspera de Ano Novo em 1899 até 1933, passando pela Guerra dos Bôeres, a morte da rainha Victoria, o naufrágio do Titanic e a carnificina da Primeira Grande Guerra. Baseado na peça de Noel Coward.
Tess of the Storm Country
Writer
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Screenplay
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
After Tomorrow
Screenplay
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
Delicious
Writer
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Surrender
Writer
Story of French prisoner in Germany who falls in love with a German general's daughter. From the novel "Axelle" by Pierre Benoit.
The Brat
Writer
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Daddy Long Legs
Writer
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
The Man Who Came Back
Writer
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
Lightnin'
Writer
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.
Liliom
Dialogue
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
Liliom
Screenplay
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
Song o' My Heart
Screenplay
Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who’s off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he’s nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
So This Is London
Screenplay
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly distastes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
South Sea Rose
Writer
A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...
Frozen Justice
Writer
Drama set in Alaska
They Had to See Paris
Screenplay
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
Lucky Star
Writer
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.
Behind That Curtain
Writer
Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk. John and Lois fly to San Francisco. Eric shows up and tries to kill John, but Scotland Yard's Lt. Charlie Chan intervenes. Chan fans may be disappointed in this globe-trotting mystery, however, as the detective only appears in a few scenes. The film is more noteworthy for its introduction of Boris Karloff to sound features, in a small role as a servant from Sudan who mutters inscrutable nonsense about the whims of the desert.
Trial Marriage
Screenplay
Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a charity ball in a revealing costume, however, and he dissolves the contract, not knowing that she is with child. A year passes. Constance marries Oliver Mowbray, and Thorvald marries Constance's sister, Grace. Both couples are quite unhappy and later obtain divorces. Oliver and Grace go to Europe, and Constance and Thorvald are married in a civil ceremony, united by their love both for each other and for their child.
The Younger Generation
Screenplay
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
The Power of the Press
Writer
The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.
A Ship Comes In
Writer
Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.
A Harp in Hock
Writer
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.
The Heart Thief
Writer
The Princess from Hoboken
Writer
To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
Christine of the Big Tops
Writer
When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine (Pauline Garon) is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. When she grows up, she asks to also become a performer, and Barman agrees. Bob Hastings (Cullen Landis) joins the traveling circus as its doctor, and he and Christine fall in love. This angers Barman, who is also in love with her.
Why Girls Go Back Home
Screenplay
Trusting country girl Marie Downey falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley. As he becomes a matinee idol on Broadway, she turns a chorus girl.
Salome of the Tenements
Writer
A young East Side Jewish reporter gets into a sticky situation when she finds that her new beau is indicting a banker she owes money to.
The Exciters
Writer
Ronnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets Pierre Martel, member of a gang of thieves, and, convinced that he is a "real man," she marries him. Pierre's confederates attempt to blackmail Ronnie, and when she refuses to sign a check they try to kill Pierre; but police arrive in time to save him. Pierre is revealed to be a U. S. Intelligence Service agent. Ronnie, though somewhat disappointed that her husband is not at all a crook, accepts the situation.
Pink Gods
Writer
The owner of vast diamond mines, John Quelch is constantly fearful of theft and convinced that any woman will "sell her soul" for diamonds, he deals harshly with any employee caught stealing and has Lady Margot Cork watched while she is visiting Lorraine Temple. John and Margot fall in love, but she cancels their engagement when she learns of the "brutal" punishment of Jim Wingate for swallowing a diamond.
The Top of New York
Story
Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Micky, and works in a department store where her boss lusts after her. But happiness comes into her life when she meets artist Emery Gray. Gray's wife deserted him long ago, leaving him with their daughter Susan (Mary Jane Irving) to raise. While Susan and Micky become playmates, Hilda restores Gray's faith in womanhood.
First Love
Story
The O'Donnells are a typical, everyday family -- Tad (George Hernandez) is a sensible working man, his wife (Fannie Midgely) is a good mother and their daughter Kathleen (Constance Binney) is pretty and innocent to the point of naiveté. Kathleen works in a factory and its owner, Donald Holiday (Warner Baxter), has taken a shine to her. But instead she falls for slick cab driver Harry Stanton (George Webb), who insists, "Honest, kid, you're the only girl I ever loved." Kathleen falls for this, and when her perceptive father makes clear he doesn't approve of Stanton, she moves out on her own.
Cheated Love
Writer
Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affections of a young settlement worker, David Dahlman. But she loves Mischa, a young doctor who soon arrives from Odessa, and to aid him financially, she distinguishes herself in the local Yiddish theater.
Who Will Marry Me?
Story
Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Barber." At the wedding ceremony in her Little Italy, New York neighborhood, Rosie flees to the settlement house where she meets Jerry Van Tyne, a wealthy young man who agrees, in a drunken state, to marry her. The next day Jerry realizes the consequences of the situation.