•          HOME PAGE
• BIOGRAPHY
• FILES
• BOOKS
• LINKS
• COMMENTS
• S

LEVATHES Peter

 

Date of birth : July 28th 1911, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Date of death : January 9th 2002, Washington DC.

 

Practise:

Lawyer.

Director of production at the Fox in 1962.

 

Portrait : 

 

Story

During the Second World War, he was special agent of the FBI in Brazil where he helped to supervise German military operations in Latin America.

He studied at the Harvard University and graduated in Laws at the George Washington University.

After the war, he worked as responsible of the TV department of the publicity agency Young & Rubicam in New York City.

 

In 1960 he was hired to turn around a situation which slowly deteriorated. 

He had an important personal responsability in the break of the shooting of "Something's Got to Give". 
Several successive directors and screenwriters agreed, then quit the project. He tried to prevent Marilyn from going to John Kennedy's birthday in New York, but she paid no heed.
 

Beginning of June 1962, he took the decision to dismiss her. But, on one hand, Dean Martininvoked a clause of his contract, which allowed him to refuse another partner, and on the other hand, the chanings at the Fox direction modified the situation.

July 25th 1962, he personally visited Marilyn and told her that her back was effective. She was happy to come back on the set; they reviewed together the screenplay, she made some changes he agreed.

Executive producer of "Crusade in Europe" (1949), a TV serie, "Tender Is the Night" (1962), "Something's Got to Give" (1962), "Cleopatra" (1962)  and "The Sound of Music" (1965).

 

                                                                                                                                              BACK TO ALPHABETICAL INDEX                                                                                                                                                                  NEXT FILE