The Stepford Husbands The Stepford Husbands The Stepford Husbands is a 1996 American made-for-television thriller-drama film inspired by the Ira Levin novel "The Stepford Wives". It was directed by Fred Walton with a screenplay by brothers Ken Wheat and Jim Wheat and starring Donna Mills, Michael Ontkean, Cindy Williams, Sarah Douglas and Louise Fletcher. It is the third in a series of sequels inspired by the 1972 novel and the original 1975 film "The Stepford Wives". In a prologue, a docile man suddenly kills his wife in a violent method and then commits suicide. Several months later, graphic artist Jodi and struggling author
Ira Levin the Horace Mann School in New York. He attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa from 1946 to 1948 and then New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English. He graduated in 1950. He served in the Army Signal Corps from 1953 to 1955. After college, Levin wrote training films and scripts for radio and television. The first of these was "Leda's Portrait", for "Lights Out" in 1951. Levin's first produced play was "No Time for Sergeants" (adapted from the Mac Hyman novel), a comedy about a hillbilly drafted into the United States Air Force that launched the