Sonya Levien

Screenwriter

About

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Birth Place

Russia

Born

December 25, 1888

Died

March 19, 1960

Cause of Death

Cancer

Filmography

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State Fair (1962)

Screenplay story

Jeanne Eagels (1957)

Bhowani Junction (1956)

Hit the Deck (1955)

Interrupted Melody (1955)

Photos & Videos

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Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) -- (Movie Clip) At The Borst Home

Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Taste Of A Widow

Family & Companions

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Carl Hovey

Husband

Writer. Married from 1917 until his death in 1956.

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

State Fair (1962)

Screenplay story

Jeanne Eagels (1957)

Bhowani Junction (1956)

Hit the Deck (1955)

Interrupted Melody (1955)

Oklahoma! (1955)

The Student Prince (1954)

Written for Screen by

The Merry Widow (1952)

The Great Caruso (1951)

Quo Vadis (1951)

Three Daring Daughters (1948)

Original Screenplay

Cass Timberlane (1948)

The Green Years (1946)

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

State Fair (1945)

The Valley of Decision (1945)

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

In Old Chicago (1938)

Kidnapped (1938)

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

The Country Doctor (1936)

Contract Writer

Navy Wife (1935)

Music Is Magic (1935)

Curly Top (1935)

Contract Writer

Here's to Romance (1935)

Change of Heart (1934)

The White Parade (1934)

Marie Galante (1934)

Contr to Screenplay const

State Fair (1933)

As Husbands Go (1933)

Berkeley Square (1933)

Cavalcade (1933)

Mr. Skitch (1933)

The Warrior's Husband (1933)

After Tomorrow (1932)

She Wanted a Millionaire (1932)

Society Girl (1932)

Contract Writer

Tess of the Storm Country (1932)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)

Daddy Long Legs (1931)

Screenplay and dial

The Brat (1931)

Adapted, cont and dial

Delicious (1931)

Surrender (1931)

Screenplay and dial by

The Man Who Came Back (1931)

Contract Writer

So This Is London (1930)

Song o' My Heart (1930)

Lightnin' (1930)

Screenplay Adapted

Lightnin' (1930)

Frozen Justice (1929)

They Had To See Paris (1929)

Lucky Star (1929)

The Younger Generation (1929)

South Sea Rose (1929)

Behind That Curtain (1929)

Trial Marriage (1929)

Trial Marriage (1929)

A Ship Comes In (1928)

The Power of the Press (1928)

Adapted and cont

The Princess from Hoboken (1927)

A Harp in Hock (1927)

The Heart Thief (1927)

Christine of the Big Tops (1926)

Christine of the Big Tops (1926)

Salome of the Tenements (1925)

The Snow Bride (1923)

The Snow Bride (1923)

The Exciters (1923)

The Top of New York (1922)

Pink Gods (1922)

Cheated Love (1921)

Scen and addl story

First Love (1921)

Who Will Marry Me? (1919)

Life Events

Videos

Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) -- (Movie Clip) At The Borst Home The first scene in director John Ford’s first color (Technicolor) film, Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert as colonials Gil and Lana are married in Albany, New York, 1776, cinematography credit shared by Bert Glennon and Ray Rennahan, Edwin Maxwell the celebrant, Robert Grieg and Clara Blandick her parents, opening Drums Along The Mohawk, 1939.

Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Taste Of A Widow Gil (Henry Fonda), recruited into the Continental Army, gets farewell wishes from Lana (Claudette Colbert) and an earthy gesture from Mrs. McKlennar (Edna May Oliver), then marches, in John Ford's Drums Along The Mohawk, 1939.

Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) -- (Movie Clip) You Got A Fine Woman First night in the frontier cabin, Lana (Claudette Colbert) comes unglued when Blue Back (Chief Big Tree) appears, Gil (Henry Fonda) trying to recover, in John Ford's Technicolor Revolutionary War drama Drums Along The Mohawk, 1939.

Berkeley Square (1933) -- (Movie Clip) An American Jest Time traveling American Peter (Leslie Howard) is posing as his 18th century namesake, whose diary he has studied, meeting his puzzled London cousins Kate (Valerie Taylor), Tom (Colin Keith-Johnston), Lady Anne (Irene Browne) and Helen (Heather Angel), in Berkeley Square, 1933.

Berkeley Square (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Age Of Speed And Invention Prologue and opening scene, Leslie Howard as American Peter Standish (a role he played on stage in London and on Broadway), traveling in 1784 England with Major Clinton (Alan Mowbray), learning of the first balloon crossing of the English Channel, from Berkeley Square, 1933.

Berkeley Square (1933) -- (Movie Clip) You Might Have Sat For It Yourself After early scenes with Leslie Howard as Peter Standish, an American visiting England in 1784, the notion of time-travel established, we meet the housekeeper (Beryl Mercer) and fiancée ( Betty Lawford) of the contemporary Peter, who’s inherited his ancestor’s house, in Berkeley Square, 1933.

Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Night Not quite able to see Lana Turner (title character, the visiting American widow Radek) in the dark, Count Danilo (Fernando Lamas), enlisted by his king to seduce her and her millions home to tiny Marshovia, offers the song from the Franz Lehar operetta, English lyric by Paul Francis Webster, in MGM’s The Merry Widow, 1952.

Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) You Were Lovely By Moonlight Count Danilo (Fernando Lamas), under royal orders to woo the visiting American widow Radek (Lana Turner) and her funds, fails to realize that Kitty (Una Merkel) is only her secretary, then is further undermined when she finds the note detailing his instructions, in The Merry Widow, 1952.

Merry Widow, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) What Charity Do You Represent? 1900, New York, diplomats from impoverished Marshovia (John Abbott, Dave Willock) have been turned away (by secretary Una Merkel) at the home of Crystal Radek (Lana Turner), new widow of the late emigrant industrialist, who arrives in time for their pitch, in MGM’s The Merry Widow, 1952.

Quo Vadis (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Venus Stood Before Mars Conquering Roman general Marcus Vinicus (Robert Taylor) tries poetic pick-up lines on Lygia (Deborah Kerr) thinking she's a slave, his first meeting with the budding Christian, in MGM's Quo Vadis, 1951.

Great Caruso, The -- (Movie Clip) Un Gran Successo Montage tracks the hero's rise through Italian opera and MGM trusts the audience to read the newspaper headline, as Mario Lanza makes his first visit back home in The Great Caruso, 1951.

Great Caruso, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) She Can't Sing MGM's version of the meeting of the title character Enrico (Mario Lanza) and his future wife Dorothy Park Benjamin (Ann Blyth) in New York, the date unclear, when he comes to apologize to another Metropolitan Opera singer (Dorothy Kirsten), in The Great Caruso, 1951.

Family

Tamara Hovey

Daughter

Serge Hovey

Son

Companions

Carl Hovey

Husband

Writer. Married from 1917 until his death in 1956.

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