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Hardback. Ceplair's book details the course of Hollywood screenwriter Sonya Levien's exceptional career at Fox and MGM and her most interesting projects and colleagues. It examines her relationship to the important political and labor movements affecting the motion picture industry. Includes an extensive filmography. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; APFB; BGF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810830929
SKU
V9780810830929
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Larry Ceplair
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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