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Sidney Sheldon is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 11 february 1917 at Chicago (USA)

Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon
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Birth name Sidney Schechtel
Nationality USA
Birth 11 february 1917 at Chicago (USA)
Death 30 january 2007 (at 89 years) at Rancho Mirage (USA)

Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an Academy Award-winning American writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84), but he became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time.

Biography

Ses parents, d'origine juive russe, étaient Ascher "Otto" Schechtel (1894-1967), gérant d'un magasin de bijoux, et Natalie Marcus. Pendant la Grande Dépression, il occupe un grand nombre de petits emplois. Il entre à l'université Northwestern où il écrit de courtes pièces pour des groupes estudiantins de théâtre.

En 1937, il s'installe à Hollywood. Il est d'abord simple réviseur et collaborateur à des scripts de films de série B avant de signer des scénarios de comédies. En parallèle, il est le librettiste de trois comédies musicales montées sur Broadway. En 1947, le scénario du film d'Irving Reis intitulé Deux sœurs vivaient en paix (The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer), avec Cary Grant, Myrna Loy et Shirley Temple lui vaut l'Oscar du meilleur scénario original. Sur Broadway, la comédie musicale Redhead, qu'il écrit en collaboration avec Herbert Fields et Dorothy Fields, remporte le Tony Award de la meilleure comédie musicale 1959.

Dans les années 1960, il se tourne vers la télévision. À la demande des gérants de la comédienne Patty Duke, il crée avec William Asher la série télévisée américaine The Patty Duke Show, pour laquelle il signe près de la moitié des 105 épisodes. En 1965, il crée et produit la série télévisée Jinny de mes rêves, avec Barbara Eden et Larry Hagman, dont il écrit une cinquantaine d'épisodes.

Dans les années 1970, après l'échec de la série télévisée Nancy, il se lance dans le roman policier. La Face de l'ombre (The Naked Face), son premier titre, où un psychiatre doit démasquer l'assassin de plusieurs de ses clients et de sa secrétaire, est un habile suspense où se devine le métier de scénariste de l'auteur. En 1973, il mêle romance et suspense dans De l'autre côté de minuit (The Other Side of Midnight), qui devient un best-seller et est adapté sous le même titre en 1977 par Charles Jarrott, avec Marie-France Pisier, John Beck et Susan Sarandon.

Sidney Sheldon est mort d'une pneumonie au centre médical Eisenhower de Rancho Mirage, en Californie.

Best films

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
(Scriptwriter)
Easter Parade (1948)
(Scriptwriter)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
(Story)

Usually with

Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(8 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(5 films)
Dave Willock
Dave Willock
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sidney Sheldon (29 films)

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Director

Buster and Billie, 1h40
Directed by Daniel Petrie, Sidney Sheldon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Jan-Michael Vincent, Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Englund, Clifton James
Rating68% 3.4427253.4427253.4427253.4427253.442725
The film is set in a small Georgia town in 1948. It follows the adventures of Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent), a handsome, popular high-school senior, who is engaged to be married to his pretty, popular high-school sweetheart Margie Hooks (Pamela-Sue Martin). He is the 'big man on campus' and the leader of his group of friends.
The Buster Keaton Story, 1h31
Directed by Sidney Sheldon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Actors Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating, Jackie Coogan
Rating51% 2.5687052.5687052.5687052.5687052.568705
Le film raconte la vie de l'acteur américain du cinéma muet Buster Keaton.
Dream Wife
Dream Wife (1953)
, 1h40
Directed by Sidney Sheldon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John, Eduard Franz, Les Tremayne
Rating58% 2.949932.949932.949932.949932.94993
Businessman Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) breaks his engagement with workaholic U.S. diplomat girlfriend Effie (Deborah Kerr) for an adoring "old-fashioned" girl from the fictional country of Bukistan, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John). Reade wants a wife who can "just find having babies and taking care of a man" pleasurable.

Scriptwriter

I Still Dream of Jeannie, 2h
Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Barbara Eden, Bill Daily, Al Waxman, Peter Breck, Ken Kercheval
Roles Writer
Rating53% 2.66652.66652.66652.66652.6665
Colonel Tony Nelson is on a top-secret space mission for NASA and Jeannie does not know of his whereabouts or when he'll be returning home to hear their son Tony Jr.'s academic presentation speech. When Jeannie goes to NASA to question General Wescott about her husband's mission, he refuses to cooperate. To make matters worse, her jealous and mischievous twin sister Jeannie II reminds Sham-Ir (the chief genie) that Jeannie cannot remain in the plane of reality for more than three months without an earthly master, and Tony has been away for a long time. Sham-Ir gives Jeannie two weeks to either find her husband or a new master (a single male only) or else she must return to Mesopotamia forever. So Jeannie begins her desperate search for a temporary master which leads her to a singles bar and other misadventures.
I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later, 2h
Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Barbara Eden, Wayne Rogers, Bill Daily, Hayden Rorke, Mackenzie Astin, André De Shields
Roles Characters
Rating55% 2.7577852.7577852.7577852.7577852.757785
Jeannie has been a happily married housewife for 15 years to her astronaut husband Tony Nelson and has a teenage son, T.J. When Tony is promoted to Colonel and is about to retire from the NASA space program, Jeannie decides to give him a celebration party in their backyard. However, egged on by his colleagues to retire with a dramatic flair, Tony breaks his promise to Jeannie for one more space flight (aboard the shuttle), this time with a female astronaut, Captain Nelly Hunt.
The Naked Face, 1h45
Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Deanna Dunagan, Anne Archer, Art Carney
Roles Novel
Rating55% 2.7534052.7534052.7534052.7534052.753405
A patient of Chicago psychoanalyst Dr. Judd Stevens (Moore) is murdered after a session, stabbed while wearing a raincoat belonging to the doctor. Police detectives McGreavy (Steiger) and Angeli (Gould) investigate. McGreavy bitterly resents the doctor from a previous case in which Stevens' testimony led to a cop killer being institutionalized rather than sent to prison.
Bloodline
Bloodline (1979)
, 1h52
Directed by Terence Young
Origin German
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Irène Papas, Claudia Mori, Michelle Phillips
Roles Novel
Rating46% 2.3074952.3074952.3074952.3074952.307495
Sam Roffe, President of Roffe & Sons Pharmaceuticals, dies in what appears to be a climbing accident, leaving his daughter Elizabeth (Audrey Hepburn) a billion-dollar empire. Roffe's board members see an opportunity to settle old scores, jockey for higher position, and reap lucrative profits. However, an investigation into Sam's death discloses that it was a murder and that a power struggle is going on within the company.
The Other Side of Midnight, 2h45
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Children's films
Actors Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager, Christian Marquand
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.049423.049423.049423.049423.04942
In World War II France, young and attractive Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier) falls in love with Larry Douglas (John Beck), an American pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force stationed in France. The couple has a torrid love affair that ends abruptly when Larry receives orders to return to the United States. Larry promises to come back for Noelle and marry her. She later finds out that she's pregnant with his child. However, he never returns.
Billy Rose's Jumbo, 2h3
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Circus films, Films about music and musicians, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger, Lynn Wood
Roles Ecrivain
Rating60% 3.0482353.0482353.0482353.0482353.048235
The Wonder Circus comes to a town in the Midwest with its featured attraction, Jumbo the elephant. Pop Wonder owns the circus, but his continued gambling losses in crap games leaves him (and the circus) with an ever-growing number of IOUs.
All in a Night's Work, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Charles Ruggles, Norma Crane, Jerome Cowan
Rating60% 3.0485453.0485453.0485453.0485453.048545
Tony Ryder's uncle, the wealthy owner of a newspaper, has just died. The young playboy Tony inherits the paper but is left with a board of directors that thinks he's unsuited for the task, plus a hotel detective who thinks Tony should know about a girl who was seen running away from his uncle's Palm Beach hotel room, wearing nothing but a Turkish towel and an earring, on the night of his death.
The Buster Keaton Story, 1h31
Directed by Sidney Sheldon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Actors Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating, Jackie Coogan
Roles Writer
Rating51% 2.5687052.5687052.5687052.5687052.568705
Le film raconte la vie de l'acteur américain du cinéma muet Buster Keaton.
Anything Goes, 1h46
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Robert Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris, Kurt Kasznar, Richard Erdman
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.0485753.0485753.0485753.0485753.048575
Showbiz partners Bill Benson and Ted Adams each travel to Paris to sign a dancer to star in their new show. The problem? There is only one role, and the men have unknowingly cast two dancers, Patsy Blair and Gaby Duval. It is up to the men to sort out their mess on the cruise back to America.
Pardners
Pardners (1956)
, 1h25
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jackie Loughery, Agnes Moorehead, Jeff Morrow
Rating61% 3.0569353.0569353.0569353.0569353.056935
Masked raiders led by Sam Hollis attack the "K" Ranch, where owner Wade Kingsley and partner Slim Mosley bravely defend their property after Matilda Kingsley and infant son Wade Jr. safely return east to New York, her hometown. Wade and Slim (played by Martin and Lewis) are murdered, but vow before they die that their sons someday will avenge them.
The Birds and the Bees, 1h34
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films about marriage
Actors George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven, Reginald Gardiner, Fred Clark, Harry Bellaver
Rating53% 2.672832.672832.672832.672832.67283
George "Hotsy" Hamilton (George Gobel), a very eligible but naive vegetarian heir to a meat-packing fortune, returns home to Connecticut by luxury cruise ship, accompanied by Marty Kennedy (Harry Bellaver), his valet, guardian and best friend, after spending three years together on a scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo looking for a rare snake. On board, the woman-shy George attracts a lot of attention from the opposite sex, despite being the consummate milque-toast, but the one he can't avoid is Jean Harris (Mitzi Gaynor), a beautiful con artist travelling with her equally larcenous father, Colonel Patrick Henry "Handsome Harry" Harris (David Niven), and his partner-in-crime Gerald (Reginald Gardiner).