Screenplay: Sonya Levien
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sonya Levien. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Lucky Star
1929 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · Paul Fix
Plot Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he...
7.7
353 votes
7.7
353 votes
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Cedric Hardwicke · Thomas Mitchell
Plot Of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's novel, this classic from Hollywood's golden year of 1939 remains the best, rivaled only by the 1923 silent version starring Lon Chaney....
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Quo Vadis
1951 · Movie · 171 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn
Plot Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything...
7.3
11K votes
7.3
11K votes
State Fair
1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Janet Gaynor · Will Rogers · Lew Ayres · Sally Eilers
Plot Stong's 1932 novel is the basis for the popular film with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret and the recent Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical. The plot follows the adventures of the...
6.9
66 votes
6.9
66 votes
Ramona
1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Loretta Young · Don Ameche · Kent Taylor · Pauline Frederick
6.9
53 votes
6.9
53 votes
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Claudette Colbert · Henry Fonda · Edna May Oliver · John Carradine
Plot In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Interrupted Melody
1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Curtis Bernhardt
Cast Glenn Ford · Eleanor Parker · Roger Moore · Cecil Kellaway
Plot Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) crowds her life with excitement and achievement from the day she leaves her Australian home and goes to Paris to study voice. After a triumphal debut...
6.6
175 votes
6.6
175 votes
In Old Chicago
1938 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Alice Faye · Don Ameche · Alice Brady
Plot Story of the great fire of 1871. Fictional story of two sons of Mrs. O'Leary (the owner of the cow which started the fire), one a rogue (Power) the other...
6.6
340 votes
6.6
340 votes
The Valley of Decision
1945 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Tay Garnett
Cast Greer Garson · Gregory Peck · Donald Crisp · Lionel Barrymore
Plot Mary Rafferty (Greer Garson) comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the...
6.6
208 votes
6.6
208 votes
Jeanne Eagels
1957 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Kim Novak · Jeff Chandler · Agnes Moorehead · Charles Drake
6.5
69 votes
6.5
69 votes
Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Robert Alda · Joan Leslie · Alexis Smith · Charles Coburn
Plot Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof...
6.3
70 votes
6.3
70 votes
Oklahoma!
1955 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Charlotte Greenwood · Rod Steiger
Plot Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting...
6.3
466 votes
6.3
466 votes
State Fair
1945 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Walter Lang
Cast Jeanne Crain · Dana Andrews · Dick Haymes · Vivian Blaine
Plot Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize...
6.3
88 votes
6.3
88 votes
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction H.C. Potter
Cast Gary Cooper · Merle Oberon · Patsy Kelly · Walter Brennan
Plot Poor Mary Smith can't go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father's political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two...
6.2
232 votes
6.2
232 votes
Bhowani Junction
1956 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Ava Gardner · Stewart Granger · Bill Travers · Abraham Sofaer
Plot This period film is a drama of chaos and revolt in which a young Anglo-Indian woman is forced to choose between her two races and twin allegiances when they are...
6.2
672 votes
6.2
672 votes
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast James Stewart · Judy Garland · Hedy Lamarr · Lana Turner
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...
6.2
133 votes
6.2
133 votes
Berkeley Square
1933 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Leslie Howard · Heather Angel · Valerie Taylor · Irene Browne
Plot A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
6.2
23 votes
6.2
23 votes
Cavalcade
1933 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Clive Brook · Diana Wynyard · Herbert Mundin · Frank Lawton
Plot A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the...
6.1
508 votes
6.1
508 votes
The Great Caruso
1951 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Mario Lanza · Ann Blyth · Dorothy Kirsten · Jarmila Novotna
Plot Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons....
5.8
216 votes
5.8
216 votes
Four Men and a Prayer
1938 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Loretta Young · Richard Greene · George Sanders · David Niven
Plot Colonel Loring Leigh, British Indian Army, appears to have issued an order that cost 90 lives. Cashiered, he returns home, tells his sons of a conspiracy by an arms syndicate...
5.6
267 votes
5.6
267 votes