# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonya-levien
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:20:07.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonya-levien"
name: "Sonya Levien"
slug: "sonya-levien"
description: "Sonya Levien was a Russian-born American screenwriter. She became one of the highest earning female screenwriters in Hollywood in the 1930s and would help a number of directors and film stars transition from silent films to talkies. In 1955 she received an Academy Award for her screenplay Interrupted Melody."
tagline: "Screenwriter (1888-1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonya_Levien_-_Jul_1925_EH.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1888-12-25"
deathDate: "1960-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.014436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397022/"
    handle:    "nm0397022"
sources:
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    title: "Соня Левін"
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    title: "سونيا ليڤين"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sonya Levien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Levien"
    title: "Sonya Levien"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Levien"
    title: "Sonya Levien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سونیا لویان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Levien"
    title: "Sonya Levien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sonya Levien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sonya Levien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ソニア・レヴィン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Соня Левин"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434645"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70045"
    title: "Sonya Levien"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump