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37-687: It was directed by Sidney Sheldon and produced by Dore Schary , from a screenplay by Herbert Baker , Alfred Lewis Levitt and Sidney Sheldon. The music score was by Conrad Salinger , the cinematography by Milton R. Krasner and the art direction by Daniel B. Cathcart and Cedric Gibbons . The costume design by Herschel McCoy and Helen Rose received an Oscar nomination. The film's secondary stars included Walter Pidgeon and Betta St. John , with supporting performances by Eduard Franz , Buddy Baer , Richard Anderson , Dan Tobin , Dean Miller , and Movita . Businessman Clemson Reade breaks off his engagement with workaholic fiance Effie, and becomes engaged to

74-619: A book. The play Gomes was performed only in London and not on Broadway. Sheldon's success on Broadway brought him back to Hollywood, where his first assignment was The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer , which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1947. He was one of the writers on the screenplay for the 1948 musical film Easter Parade and sole writer for the 1950 musical film Annie Get Your Gun , both of which featured

111-424: A break and books her on the same flight. Hearing that Tommy is coming to arrest Richard on exaggerated charges, Matt stalls Tommy by telling police at the airport that Tommy is a mental patient with delusions of being an assistant district attorney. Richard and Margaret are happily surprised to meet each other as they approach the plane to board and head off together. The movie premiered at Radio City Music Hall . In

148-400: A contemporary review for The New York Times , critic Bosley Crowther called the film "most agreeable" and praised the four principal performers, the direction and screenplay. The film's screenplay won an Academy Award ( Best Original Screenplay ) for Sidney Sheldon , who later created the television shows I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart and wrote novels such as Master of

185-474: A freedom that doesn't exist in any other medium." He was the author of 18 novels, which have sold over 300 million copies. Three years before his death, the Los Angeles Times called Sheldon "Mr. Blockbuster" and "prince of potboilers ." Sheldon was first married to Jane Kaufman Harding (1945–1946). Later, he wrote, "Regretfully, in less than a month, Jane and I realized we had made a mistake. We spent

222-483: A handsome and sophisticated artist, is a defendant in Margaret's courtroom, charged by assistant district attorney Tommy Chamberlain with starting a nightclub brawl. Margaret releases him with a warning when it becomes clear that the fight was started by two women fighting over him. Richard proceeds to Susan's school, where he is the guest lecturer for the day. Listening to his speech, Susan becomes infatuated with him. After

259-403: A loss of $ 456,000. The character of Princess Tarji was resurrected in one episode of Sheldon's I Dream of Jeannie , titled "This Is Murder" (4/9/66), portrayed by Gila Golan . Sidney Sheldon Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing

296-713: A novelist as well. Sheldon married Alexandra Joyce Kostoff, a former child actress, in Las Vegas in 1989. Sheldon struggled with bipolar disorder for years; he contemplated suicide at 17 (talked out of it by his father, who found him with a bottle of whiskey and several bottles of sleeping pills), as detailed in his autobiography published in 2005, The Other Side of Me . A resident of Palm Springs, California, Sheldon died on January 30, 2007, of pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, twelve days before his 90th birthday. His remains were cremated;

333-703: A number of B movies . Sheldon began writing musicals for the Broadway stage while continuing to write screenplays for both MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures . He earned a reputation as a prolific writer; for example, at one time, Ben Roberts and he had three musicals on Broadway - a rewritten The Merry Widow , Jackpot , and Dream with Music . Sheldon received a Tony Award in 1959 for his musical Redhead , starring Gwen Verdon . His other stage plays include Alice in Arms , The King of New York , The Judge , and Roman Candle . Only Roman Candle has been published as

370-497: A prolonged period of celebration called "bruchah". These terms are borrowed for comedic effect from the Jewish terms " huppah " — the canopy beneath which the marriage ceremony takes place (thus the ceremony sometimes is called "hupah"), and the "Sheva 'bruchis' or ' sheva brachot '" - the 7 blessings. "Bruchah" means "blessing", and these are recited both at the ceremony and throughout the week-long celebration that follows. Tarji embraces

407-569: A scholarship, and contributed short plays to drama groups. He had to drop out after six months to help support his family. Sheldon enlisted in the military during World War II as a pilot in the War Training Service , a branch of the Army Air Corps . His unit was disbanded, but he was discharged because of a recurring slipped disc before he was deployed. In 1937, Sheldon moved to Hollywood , where he reviewed scripts and collaborated on

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444-662: Is consistently cited as one of the top ten best-selling fiction writers of all time. Sheldon was born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago, Illinois . His parents, of Ukrainian Jewish ancestry, were Ascher "Otto" Schechtel (1894–1967), manager of a jewelry store, and Natalie Marcus. At age 10, Sidney made his first sale, $ 5 for a poem. During the Great Depression , he worked at a variety of jobs, and after graduating from East High School in Denver, Colorado , he attended Northwestern University on

481-450: Is dropping the charge. When Richard and Margaret get away and visit a nightclub, they are continuously interrupted. Susan dramatically accuses Margaret of stealing her boyfriend. Uncle Matt takes Susan in hand and makes her realise that she is only infatuated with Richard and he is too old for her so she returns to Jerry, who is being drafted into uniform. Matt learns that Richard is planning a trip away so he convinces Margaret she also needs

518-402: Is summoned by her father, who lectures her sternly. Despite her earlier assertion, she arrives for her wedding with Reade. He is aghast, and attempts to rebuke her for abandoning her newfound feminist ideals, ultimately succeeding in stopping the marriage. Tarji's father is outraged, but Effie slyly congratulates him, pointing out that he would not let a man like Reade ruin the oil deal he had with

555-631: The Palm Springs Walk of Stars dedicated to him in 1994. In 1990, Sheldon received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . These books were published to introduce English-language novels in Japan. Some of the books have also been translated to Spanish, German, and Portuguese. The English versions of these books are not available outside of Japan. The Bachelor and

592-547: The Bees ; Anything Goes ; Pardners ; The Buster Keaton Story (directed as well); All in a Night's Work ; and Billy Rose's Jumbo . When television became the new popular medium, Sheldon decided to try his hand in it. "I suppose I needed money," he remembered. "I met Patty Duke one day at lunch. So I produced The Patty Duke Show , and I did something nobody else in TV ever did. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of

629-524: The Bobby-Soxer The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (released as Bachelor Knight in the United Kingdom ) is a 1947 American screwball romantic comedy-drama film directed by Irving Reis and written by Sidney Sheldon . The film stars Cary Grant , Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple in a story about a teenager's crush on an older man. On its release, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

666-570: The Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973), and Rage of Angels (1980). According to RKO records, the film earned $ 4,200,000 in theater rentals in the U.S. and Canada and $ 1,350,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $ 700,000. In 2009, the film was available on videocassette and DVD. The script was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the May 10, 1948 broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple. It

703-551: The TV business." In 1970, Sheldon wrote all 17 episodes of the short-lived series Nancy . In 1979, Sheldon created and wrote for the series Hart to Hart starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers . The show aired on ABC and ran for five seasons. In 1969, Sheldon wrote his first novel, The Naked Face , which earned him a nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in

740-489: The United States, even though he was a scoundrel. Tarji's father agrees to uphold the treaty, despite the wedding not going through. He tells Effie she must love Reade very much, implying he understood her true motives all along. The wedding is cancelled, Reade and Effie kiss, and a mild earthquake occurs. According to MGM records, the film earned $ 1,213,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $ 672,000 elsewhere, meaning it resulted in

777-492: The adoring Princess Tarji from the fictional country of Bukistan, whom he sees as an "old-fashioned" girl. As Bukistan is in the midst of making an oil trade agreement with the United States, the State Department assigns a handler to Princess Tarji. Surprisingly, the person given the assignment is Effie. As Reade endeavors to get close to his fiance, Effie ends up educating the princess about Western ideas of emancipation and

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814-549: The ashes were interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery . Sheldon won an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay (1947) for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer and a Tony Award (1959) for his musical Redhead , and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on I Dream of Jeannie , an NBC sitcom. Sheldon was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1988 had a Golden Palm Star on

851-415: The category of Best First Novel. His next novel, The Other Side of Midnight , climbed to number one on The New York Times Best Seller list , as did several ensuing novels, a number of which were also made into motion pictures or TV miniseries. His novels often featured determined women who persevere in a tough world run by hostile men. The novels contained suspense and devices to keep the reader turning

888-410: The ideas Effie presents. She adopts American clothing and allows herself such activities as taking a walk through the city on her own. Not understanding the language, Tarji smiles warmly at the people she passes. A number of the men she passes mistake Tarji's friendliness for romantic intent. Several of them arrive at her apartment, and a fight breaks out between them and Reade. The police are called, with

925-467: The main event, an obstacle course, Susan asks Jerry to help Richard win. Because he still loves her, Jerry complies, getting his friends to obstruct the other competitors and colliding with Tommy so that Richard wins the event. Richard and Margaret are attracted to each other, but Tommy considers Richard a habitual troublemaker and wants Margaret for himself. Hoping that Richard will stop seeing Margaret if he no longer must date Susan, Tommy announces that he

962-463: The modern role of a wife. Effie teaches Tarji the English language through books about important American feminists. While working with Tarjii, Effie comes to moderate some of her own ideas. Conversely, Reade's attempted courtship of the princess, which he initially conducts by American customs, must be adjusted to Bukistanian tradition. Effie explains to him that the marriage, called "hufi", is followed by

999-450: The next nine months trying in vain to make the marriage work." He was married for thirty years to Jorja Curtright , a stage and film actress, who later became an interior designer. She played Suzanne in the 1955 film, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing , and appeared as Madame Zolta in season one of I Dream of Jeannie in episode 25, "Bigger Than a Bread Box". Curtright died of a heart attack in 1985. Their daughter, Mary Sheldon, became

1036-400: The page: "I try to write my books so the reader can't put them down," he explained in a 1982 interview. "I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of it, he or she has to read just one more chapter. It's the technique of the old Saturday afternoon serial: leave the guy hanging on the edge of the cliff at the end of the chapter." Most of his readers were women. Asked why this

1073-435: The result being that Tarji is thrown in jail. Outraged, her father travels to the United States with the intent of negating his daughter's engagement. However, Effie charms Tarji's father into reconsidering, much to Reade's dismay. Tarji confesses to Reade that she does not love him, and will not come to their wedding ceremony. Realizing his true feelings are for Effie, Reade is relieved to be released from his commitment. Tarji

1110-756: The series." After seeing Duke's performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Sheldon cast the actress as the two sitcom leads, identical cousins, Patty and Cathy Lane. Following the show's success, Sheldon had signed an agreement with Screen Gems to handle the development of various television series. In 1965, Sheldon created, produced, and wrote I Dream of Jeannie starring Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman . He wrote all but two dozen scripts in five years, sometimes using three pseudonyms (Mark Rowane, Allan Devon, and Christopher Golato) while simultaneously writing scripts for The Patty Duke Show . He later said that he did this because he felt his name

1147-414: The situation. He recommends allowing Susan to date the 35-year-old Richard until the infatuation dissipates, and Tommy promises to drop the assault charge if Richard complies. At a high-school basketball game, Richard tries unsuccessfully to boost Susan's image of her ex-boyfriend Jerry White. At a school picnic, Susan persuades Richard to enter a series of novelty races, but he loses repeatedly to Tommy. In

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1184-567: The songs of Irving Berlin . Some of his other writing credits include South of Panama ; Gambling Daughters ; Dangerous Lady ; Borrowed Hero ; Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case ; Fly-by-Night ; She's in the Army ; Nancy Goes to Rio ; Three Guys Named Mike ; No questions asked ; Rich, Young and Pretty ; Just This Once ; Remains to be Seen ; Dream Wife (directed as well); You're Never Too Young ; The Birds and

1221-538: The successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. He went on to work in television, where over twenty years he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), and Hart to Hart (1979–84). After turning 50, he began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973), and Rage of Angels (1980). Sheldon's novels have sold over 300 million copies in 51 languages. Sheldon

1258-473: The talk, she finds a reason to spend time with him and suggests that she model for him. That evening, she wears a sophisticated dress and sneaks away from home and into his apartment while he is out. Soon after Richard returns and discovers Susan in his apartment, Tommy and Margaret arrive frantically beating on the door. Richard assaults Tommy and is held in jail until Matt Beemish, the court psychiatrist and also Margaret and Susan's uncle, intervenes and explains

1295-439: Was appearing too often in the credits as creator, producer, copyright owner, and writer of these series. Production for I Dream of Jeannie ended in 1970 after five seasons. "During the last year of I Dream of Jeannie , I decided to try a novel," he said in 1982. "Each morning from 9 until noon, I had a secretary at the studio take all calls. I mean every single call. I wrote each morning — or rather, dictated — and then I faced

1332-412: Was received positively by audiences and critics. Sidney Sheldon won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the script. Margaret and Susan Turner are sisters who live together. Susan is an intelligent 17-year-old high-school student with a habit of forming short-lived enthusiasms after hearing the regular guest lectures at school. Margaret, who is a judge, is Susan's guardian. Richard Nugent,

1369-404: Was the case, he said: "I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it." Books were Sheldon's favorite medium. "I love writing books," he commented. "Movies are a collaborative medium, and everyone is second-guessing you. When you do a novel, you're on your own. It's

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