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LEVATHES Peter

 

Peter Georges Levathes.

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

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

 

Profession

Lawyer.

Director of production at the Fox in 1962.

 

Portrait 

Addresses

- in 1940, 83rd Street, New York

- in 1948-1950, 23 Central Park West, New York.

 

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.

 
On September 10, 1938 he married Christine Chakeres (September 26, 1913-June 20, 2001 ) in

Clark, Ohio ().

They had two children Peter C. (born September 15, 1945) and  Louise Elaine (born November 13, 1948).

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 Martin invoked 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 25, 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).

 

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