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Sonya Levien. 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 ...
Writer: Interrupted Melody. Sonya, a graduate with a law degree from New York University, briefly practiced law before becoming a magazine editor and fiction writer. After several of her stories were adapted to the screen, she became a screenwriter. Levien wrote several screenplays for Will Rogers films and for Fox studios during the 1930s.
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Ceplair, Larry. A Great Lady: A Life of the Screenwriter Sonya Levien. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996. Levien, Sonya. “In the Golden Land.” The Metropolitan (Apr. 1918): 8, 71. ------. Interview. The World (28 June 1925): 6M. ------. “My Pilgrimage to Hollywood: Writing for the Movies is a Hard, Exciting Life, but has its Moments of Satisfaction.” T...
A. Archival Filmography: Extant Film Titles: 1. Sonya Levien as Screenwriter Christine of the Big Tops. Dir.: Archie L. Mayo, sc./st.: Sonya Levien (Banner Productions, Inc. US 1926) cas.: Pauline Garon, Cullen Landis, si, b&w, 35mm., 6 reels. Archive: George Eastman Museum. The Princess from Hoboken. Dir.: Allan Dale, sc./st.: Sonya Levien (Tiffan...
Both Frozen Justice and They Had to See Paris are sound films that were released in silent versions for theatres that hadn’t yet been wired for sound. While FIAF does not list Pink Gods, The Snow Bride, The Exciters, andCheated Love, the films are extant at UCLA. Levein is credited as Sonya Hovey for Why Girls Go Back Home.
Erens, Patricia Brett. "Sonya Levien." In Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2013.
Mar 9, 2022 · Portrait of Sonya Levien, undated. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The life of Sonya Levien (1888–1960) reads like a rags-to-riches fairy tale. But it is also a story of fortitude, feminism, and the ability to balance personal, family, and financial ambitions. The Huntington holds the papers of Levien, who started ...
Levien, Sonya (1888–1960)Russian-American screenwriter who won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Interrupted Melody. Born near Moscow, Russia, on December 25, 1888; died on March 19, 1960, in Hollywood, California; graduated from New York University with a law degree; married Carl Hovey, in 1917; children: two, including daughter Tamara Gold Hovey (a screenwriter and biographer).
Sara Opesken Levien (“Sonya” is the Russian diminutive, which she used) was born on December 25, 1888, to Julius and Fanny Opesken in Panimunik, formerly Russia, now Lithuania. (She altered the date later to 1898.) By the time her father immigrated to the United States in 1891, she had two younger brothers, Arnold and Max.
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 ...
