Sonya Levien was among the most successful and respected screenwriters in Hollywood. During her career from 1919 to 1960, Levien worked on well over one hundred screen stories and scripts for both silent and sound pictures. She wrote comedies, melodramas, epics, and musicals. A Great Lady details the course of this exceptional career at Fox and M-G-M and her most interesting projects and colleagues. It examines her relationship to the important political and labor movements affecting the motion picture industry and her change from her socially and politically radical younger years as an anarchist, socialist, and suffragist to a highly successful, moderately conservative screenwriter. Includes a detailed filmography.
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Larry Ceplair is Professor of History at Santa Monica College. He is also the interviewer for the UCLA Oral History project on the motion picture blacklist.
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Sonja Levien 's first Biorgapher,
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this book is an excellent beginning to the life and times of possibly the greatest screenwriter of Hollywood's golden age(1930-1960)Cepair has covered all the area of her long career always stressing what a hard worker she was ahd t he respect she recieved from virtually everyone in the business. From her colleagues in the writers building to the studio heads Sonja was praised again and again for the wonderful collaaboration polishiong the script to make it just right. Even then she was given soul credit for 30 of her forty credits. Highly recommended as a necessary beginning to more thorough investigation of this "great lady" lady and the times she lived in.
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NOT A REAL BIOGRAPHY,
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The author writes that he could not obtain help from direct family of the writer or the autorization to consult files. What you read is a ligth, very light, story of the writer. NOT A BIOGRAPHY!
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