Born in Rochester, New York, Levey joined Universal Pictures as Eastern sales manager in 1919 and worked for several major producers.

His Mayfair Productions (at 1250 6th Avenue, New York) turned out films including The Boys From Syracuse, Pardon My Sarong, The Hairy Ape, New Orleans and Hellzapoppin'.

Former Universal newsreel editor Charles E. Ford directed this filmed record of James Dannaldson's hunting expedition into the Amazon jungles.

But a breakdown showed that though the majority had heard of the names of both the author and his work, they didn't all know that O'Neill was a playwright and that "The Hairy Ape" was the title of a play.

[3] Levey lived in New York at 970 Park Avenue, then at 24 West 55th Street (the Rockefeller Apartments).