Tag: Sonya Levien

Oklahoma! Script

Script by:Sonya Levien (Writer)
Directed by:Fred Zinnemann
Year:1955
IMDb:tt0048445

Plot:This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900s with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit Broadway musical.
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Quo Vadis Script

Script by:John Lee Mahin (Screenplay), S. N. Behrman (Screenplay), Sonya Levien (Screenplay), Henryk Sienkiewicz (Novel)
Directed by:Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Year:1951
IMDb:tt0043949

Plot:Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis, General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian woman, Lygia. Caught in the grip of insanity, Nero's atrocities become more extreme and he burns Rome, laying the blame on the Christians. Vinicius races to save Lygia from the wrath of Nero as the empire of Rome collapses around them.
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Drums Along the Mohawk Script

Script by:Lamar Trotti (Screenplay), Sonya Levien (Screenplay), Walter D. Edmonds (Novel)
Directed by:John Ford
Year:1939
IMDb:tt0031252

Plot:Set in America's Colonial period, John Ford's adventure tale follows Gilbert (Henry Fonda) and Lana Martin (Claudette Colbert) as they try to survive the rugged frontier. After their settlement is repeatedly attacked by Indians, the couple is taken in by a spinster (Edna May Oliver). Lana bears a son, while Gilbert heads off to fight the Indians and the British. He returns, wounded, to find his family once again under attack by the Indians.
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State Fair Script

Script by:Richard L. Breen (Screenplay), Oscar Hammerstein II (Adaptation), Paul Green (Adaptation), Sonya Levien (Adaptation), Philip Strong (Novel)
Directed by:José Ferrer
Year:1962
IMDb:tt0056526

Plot:The third film version of 'State Fair' (and the second musical version).Margy Frake this time round is played by newcomer Pamela Tiffin, who has her voice dubbed as Jeanne Crain did 17 years earlier. Her squire at the fair this time round is called Jerry and works for that new-fangled media, the 'tube' or TV. He's played by Bobby Darin who looks far too old to be chasing Tiffin - perhaps that is why a couple of references were added in this version about her age.
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Ziegfeld Girl Script

Script by:Marguerite Roberts (Screenplay), Sonya Levien (Screenplay), William Anthony McGuire (Story)
Directed by:Robert Z. Leonard, Busby Berkeley
Year:1941
IMDb:tt0034415

Plot: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.
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