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Ira Levin
(Writer)
[August 27, 1929 - November 12, 2007] |
Profile created January 25, 2008
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A Kiss Before Dying (1953) --
Winner 1954
Edgar Award for Best First Novel
A Kiss Before Dying not
only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave
reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense.
Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is
penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking
tale of a young man who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get where
he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks,
sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she
loves him, and she’s pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures.
But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder.
Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in
his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he
foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own
extreme deed.
Movie (1956), Gerd
Oswald, director with Jeffrey Hunter and Robert Wagner
DVD
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Movie (1991), James Dearden, director with
James Bonfanti and Sarah Keller
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Rosemary's Baby (1967)
The young couple. The new neighbors. The suicide.
The amulet. The doctor. The herbs. The anagram. The baby. Rosemary's
Baby.
In 1967, when Rosemary's Baby was first published, Ira Levin's
masterpiece gave horror an innocent new face. It caused a worldwide
sensation, found fear where we never thought to look before, and dared to
bring it into the sunlight. Now, Rosemary's Baby is back to terrify a
whole new generation of readers.
Movie (1968):
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This Perfect Day (1970) --
Winner 1992 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
The Stepford Wives (1972)
All the beautiful people live in the idyllic village
of Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent suburban Eden populated with
successful, satisfied hubbys and their beautiful, dutiful wives. For
Joanna Eberhart, a recent arrival with her husband and two children, it
all seems too perfect to be true -- from the sweet, accommodating Welcome
Wagon lady to all those cheerful, friendly faces in the supermarket
checkout lines. But just beneath the town's flawless surface, something is
sordid and wrong -- something abominable with roots in the local Men's
Association. And it may already be too late for Joanna to save herself
from being devoured by Stepford's hideous perfection.
Movie (1975), Bryan
Forbes, director with Katharine Ross and Paula
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Movie (2004), Frank Oz,
director with Matthew Broderick and Nicole Kidman
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The Boys From Brazil (1976)
Movie (1978), Franklin J. Schaffner, director
with Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier
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Three by Ira Levin (1985)
Sliver (1991)
Movie (1993) with Jim Beaver and William
Baldwin
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Son of Rosemary: The Sequel to Rosemary's Baby (1997)
International bestselling author Ira Levin returns
to the horror of his 1967 ground-breaking novel Rosemary's Baby with this
terrifying sequel set at the dawn of the Millennium! Thirty-three years
ago, Rosemary gave birth to the Devil's child while under the control of
an evil, satanic cult. Now the year is 1999, and humanity dreads the
approaching 21st Century, desperately in search of a savior for this
troubled world. In New York City, Rosemary's son Andy is believed to be
that savior. But is he the force of good his followers accept him to be?
Or is he his father's son? Rosemary and Andy will be reunited in a battle
of good versus evil which will decide the fate of the world and of
humanity....
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