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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Title
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm [continuity script]
- Author
- Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973.
- Publication
- Los Angeles : Fox Film Corporation, 1932.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll m.b. Behrman R43 1932 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
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- Description
- [1], 91 leaves; 28 cm
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- Note
- "Continuity Taken From The Screen."—From front wrapper.
- Mimeograph typescript, printed on rectos only, brad-bound in pale blue wrappers, dated June 20, 1932 at top of front wrapper.
- The film was in production between April 15 to early June, 1932, and had a U.S. release date on July 3, 1932; an earlier version was produced in 1917, and Shirley Temple would star in a 1938 version.
- Screenplay by S. N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, with an uncredited contribution by Guy Bolton, based on the 1903 novel of the same name by Kate Douglas Wiggin, and the 1910 play by Charlotte Thompson.
- Directed by Alfred Santell; cast includes Marian Nixon, Ralph Bellamy, Mae Marsh, Louis Closser Hale, Alan Hale, Sarah Padden, Aphonse Ethier, Eula Guy, Ronald Harris, and Willis Marks.
- Co-writer Sonya Levien was an impoverished immigrant who became one of Hollywood’s highest paid screen writers. Born Sonya Opesken, in 1888, in Panimunik, a small Jewish village within the Russian Empire, she emigrated with her family to New York’s Lower East Side. Her father took the name of Levien. In 1906, she attended New York University Law School, graduating in 1909. In 1917, she married Carl Hovey, the son of a Bostonian first family, who was co-editor of the Metropolitan, a magazine for which Levien wrote many stories and articles. During the early teens, Levien’s writings reflect her support of the 3 Women’s Suffrage Movement and other liberal causes. At the same time she wrote melodramatic stories about immigrant families. One story, Baby Doll, was purchased by Famous Players-Lasky and was made into the feature motion picture The Top of New York (1922). Prior to this, Levien, working as a freelance writer, receiving story credit for three films including Cheated Love (1921) – a remake of The Heart of a Jewess (1913) – produced by Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Levien was employed in the scenario department at Famous Players-Lasky, then releasing films as Paramount Pictures Corporation, from 1922 until 1925. During that time, she worked on adventure and romances, as well as the adaptation of Salome of the Tenements (1925), based on a novel by Anzia Yezierska, also a Jewish immigrant. Returning to New York, Levien became a scenario editor for Samuel Goldwyn Pictures, attending Broadway plays, summarizing plots, and inquiring about movie rights. Simultaneously, Hovey lost his job, and henceforth, Levien became the main financial supporter of the family. Levien therefore returned to Hollywood, with her husband and children. Working again at Famous Players-Lasky, Levien flourished. From 1926 until the end of the silent era, Levien wrote for several production companies, managing to avoid getting pigeonholed as only a writer of women’s pictures. In addition to Salome of the Tenements (1925), now lost, Levien wrote the story and scenario for the extant film The Princess from Hoboken (1927) and the lost A Harp in Hock (1927), all three of which deal with Jewish immigrant life. But the immigrant scenario that received the most praise was director Frank Capra’s The Younger Generation (1929), Columbia Pictures’ first sound film, based on a story by Fannie Hurst. Later in life, Levien was given the first Laurel Award by the Screenwriters Guild of America for her contributions to the screenwriting profession. In 1955, she won an Oscar for her story and screenplay, Interrupted Melody. She died in Hollywood on March 19, 1960. (See: Patricia Brett Erens; Larry Ceplair; A Great Lady: A Life of the Screenwriter Sonya Levien. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1996).
- Guy Reginald Bolton (23 November 1884 – 4 September 1979) was a British-American playwright and writer of musical comedies. […] Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G. Wodehouse and Fred Thompson, with whom he wrote 21 and 14 shows respectively, and the American playwright George Middleton, with whom he wrote ten shows. Among his other collaborators in Britain were George Grossmith Jr., Ian Hay and Weston and Lee. In the U.S., he worked with George and Ira Gershwin, Kalmar and Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II. -- From Wikipedia.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access ;
- Call Number
- Berg Coll m.b. Behrman R43 1932
- OCLC
- 1004395428
- Author
- Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973.
- Title
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm [continuity script]
- Imprint
- Los Angeles : Fox Film Corporation, 1932.
- Access
- Restricted access ; request permission in holding division.
- Local Note
- Berg Collection copy with manuscript numbers written in colored pencil in an unknown hand on the upper front wrapper.
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- Added Author
- Bolton, Guy, 1882-1979, screenwriter.Levien, Sonya, 1888?-1960, screenwriter.Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll m.b. Behrman R43 1932