Rome, Open City
One of Levine's most unusual successes was "Body Beautiful," a sex-hygiene film which he saw drawing a line of prospective ticket-buyers who were braving a snowstorm to that end. He later remembered buying it to show in his theaters because "it made me sick." He was also a representative for Burstyn-Mayer distributing Italian films such as Roberto Rossellini's "Rome, Open City" (1945) and "Paisà" (1946), and Vittorio De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves" (1948).