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Ira Levin

Index Ira Levin

Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. [1]

77 relations: A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film), A Kiss Before Dying (1991 film), A Kiss Before Dying (novel), Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards, Andy Griffith, Boroughs of New York City, Broadway theatre, Christopher Reeve, Chuck Palahniuk, Critic's Choice (film), Critic's Choice (play), David Pringle, Deathtrap (film), Deathtrap (play), Des Moines, Iowa, Dr. Cook's Garden, Drake University, Drat! The Cat!, Edgar Award, Footsteps (2003 film), Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Hillbilly, Horace Mann School, Internet Broadway Database, John Cassavetes, John Grant (author), Lights Out (radio show), Los Angeles Times, Lyricist, Mac Hyman, Manhattan, Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mises Institute, New York (magazine), New York (state), New York City, New York University, Nick Adams (actor, born 1931), No Time for Sergeants, No Time for Sergeants (1958 film), Novelist, Occult, Phillip Noyce, Playwright, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby (film), ..., Rosemary's Baby (novel), Ruth Gordon, Sammy Jackson, Satanism, Sharon Stone, Signal Corps (United States Army), Sliver (film), Sliver (novel), Son of Rosemary, Songwriter, Stephen King, Stranger than Fiction: True Stories, The Boys from Brazil (film), The Boys from Brazil (novel), The Bronx, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Stepford Wives, The Stepford Wives (1975 film), The Stepford Wives (2004 film), This Perfect Day, Tom Berenger, Tony Award, Tony Award for Best Play, United States Air Force, Veronica's Room (play), William Baldwin. Expand index (27 more) »

A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film)

A Kiss Before Dying is a 1956 American color film noir, directed by Gerd Oswald in his directorial debut.

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A Kiss Before Dying (1991 film)

A Kiss Before Dying is a 1991 neo-noir film.

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A Kiss Before Dying (novel)

A Kiss Before Dying is a 1953 novel written by Ira Levin.

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Andy Griffith

Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, Southern gospel singer, and writer, whose career spanned seven decades of music and television.

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Boroughs of New York City

New York City encompasses five county-level administrative divisions called boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Christopher Reeve

Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction.

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Critic's Choice (film)

Critic's Choice is a 1963 film comedy directed by Don Weis.

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Critic's Choice (play)

Critic's Choice is a play written by Ira Levin.

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David Pringle

David Pringle (born 1 March 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor.

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Deathtrap (film)

Deathtrap is a 1982 American thriller film based on Ira Levin's play of the same name, directed by Sidney Lumet from a screenplay by Levin and Jay Presson Allen, starring Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon and Christopher Reeve.

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Deathtrap (play)

Deathtrap is a play written by Ira Levin in 1978 with many plot twists and which references itself as a play within a play.

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Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Dr. Cook's Garden

Dr Cook's Garden is a play by Ira Levin.

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Drake University

Drake University is a private, co-educational university located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States.

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Drat! The Cat!

Drat! The Cat! is a musical with a book and lyrics by Ira Levin and music by Milton Schafer.

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Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City.

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Footsteps (2003 film)

Footsteps is a 2003 television film adaptation of the directed by John Badham based on the Ira Levin play of the same name.

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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show (and CBS) renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC.

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Hillbilly

"Hillbilly" is a term (often derogatory) for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in Appalachia and the Ozarks.

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Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School (also known as Horace Mann or HM) is an independent college preparatory school in the Bronx, founded in 1887.

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Internet Broadway Database

The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel.

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John Cassavetes

John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter.

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John Grant (author)

John Grant (born 22 November 1949) is a Scottish writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction.

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Lights Out (radio show)

Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lyricist

A lyricist or lyrist is a person who writes lyrics—words for songs—as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's melody.

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Mac Hyman

Mac Hyman (born Mackenzie Hooks Hyman; August 25, 1923July 17, 1963), was an American fiction writer who is known for his best-selling novel No Time for Sergeants, which was adapted into a popular Broadway play and a motion picture.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Mia Farrow

María de Lourdes "Mia" Villiers Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., 14 March 1933) is an English actor, producer, and author.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Mises Institute

The Mises Institute, short name for Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, is a tax-exempt educative organization located in Auburn, Alabama, United States.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)

Nick Adams (born Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock, July 10, 1931 – February 7, 1968) was an American film and television actor and screenwriter.

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No Time for Sergeants

No Time for Sergeants is a 1954 best-selling novel by Mac Hyman, which was later adapted into a teleplay on The United States Steel Hour, a popular Broadway play and 1958 motion picture, as well as a 1964 television series.

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No Time for Sergeants (1958 film)

No Time for Sergeants is a 1958 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy starring Andy Griffith and featuring Myron McCormick, Don Knotts and most of the original Broadway cast.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Occult

The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".

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Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian film director.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Roman Polanski

Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Rosemary's Baby (film)

Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film with supernatural horror elements written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling 1967 novel of the same name by Ira Levin.

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Rosemary's Baby (novel)

Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 horror novel by American writer Ira Levin, his second published book.

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Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985) was an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a screenwriter and playwright.

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Sammy Jackson

Sammy Jackson (August 18, 1937 – April 24, 1995) was an American actor, known particularly for his roles reflecting rural life, and a country music disc jockey, although he also played pop-standards during 1983 at Los Angeles's KMPC.

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Satanism

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.

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Sharon Stone

Sharon Yvonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model.

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Signal Corps (United States Army)

The United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) develops, tests, provides, and manages communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces.

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Sliver (film)

Sliver is a 1993 erotic thriller film based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York high-rise apartment building.

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Sliver (novel)

Sliver (1991) is a novel by U.S. author Ira Levin about the mysterious people in a privately owned New York highrise apartment building, especially after a new tenant — an attractive young working woman in publishing — has moved in.

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Son of Rosemary

Son of Rosemary is a 1997 horror novel by American writer Ira Levin.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Stranger than Fiction: True Stories

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (published in the United Kingdom & Australia as Nonfiction) is a non-fiction book by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 2004.

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The Boys from Brazil (film)

The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British-American science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

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The Boys from Brazil (novel)

The Boys from Brazil (1976) is a thriller novel by American writer Ira Levin.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Stepford Wives

The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical thriller novel by Ira Levin.

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The Stepford Wives (1975 film)

The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American science-fiction horror film based on the 1972 Ira Levin novel of the same name.

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The Stepford Wives (2004 film)

The Stepford Wives is a 2004 American science-fiction horror comedy film.

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This Perfect Day

This Perfect Day is a science fiction novel by American writer Ira Levin, about a technocratic dystopia.

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Tom Berenger

Tom Berenger (born Thomas Michael Moore; May 31, 1949) is an American television and motion picture actor.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Tony Award for Best Play

The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York City.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Veronica's Room (play)

Veronica's Room is a theatrical play by Ira Levin (an author best known for Rosemary's Baby), originally mounted in 1973.

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William Baldwin

William Joseph "Billy" Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) is an American actor, producer and writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Levin

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