Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon ( Chicago , February 11 1917 - Rancho Mirage , January 30 2007 ) was an American author of among other novels, film and television scripts, and plays. He is known from television series The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70) and Hart to Hart (1979-84), and novels as Master of the Game(1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980).



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*1 Biography  ==[Biography  edit ] == Sheldon was born in Chicago. His parents, Ascher "Otto" Schechtel and Natalie Marcus, were Russian - Jewish descent. On his 10th Sheldon already sold a poem for $ 5. [1] During the Great Depression he had various jobs. After being graduated from the Denver East High School, he studied at the Northwestern University . Here he wrote, among other scripts for the theater.
 * 2 Prices
 * 3 Bibliography
 * 3.1 Novels
 * 3.2 Autobiography
 * 3.3 Plays
 * 3.4 Movies
 * 3.5   Television

In 1937, Sheldon moved to Hollywood, where he worked for a series was screenwriter B films . [2] During World War II he served as a pilot in the training program of the United States Army Air Corps . [2]  His unit, however, was abandoned before Sheldon to Europe could be controlled. He then moved to New York City, where he musicals started writing for Broadway . He also remained active as a scriptwriter for both MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures . On Broadway he achieved success include a rewritten version of The Merry Widow , Jackpot and Dream with Music. [1]  His success on Broadway was that he was also larger jobs in Hollywood. His first success in Hollywood was The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which he received a 1947 Academy Award was for the best original screenplay.

When television started, Sheldon decided also to focus on this. After he Patty Duke met, he wrote for her The Patty Duke Show. In the seven years that followed, he wrote the script of almost every episode of this series. He also wrote scripts for Hart to Hart and Nancy . He gained fame in the 60s through the series I Dream of Jeannie, which was co-invented by him and produced. He wrote five years more than two dozen scripts for the series, sometimes under the pseudonym "Mark Rowane", "Allan Devon" and "Christopher Golato." He was for his work on the series nominated for an Emmy Award .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">When I Dream of Jeannie ended, Sheldon decided to even try to write a novel. In 1969 he published his first book, The Naked Face. This was by the Mystery Writers of America nominated for an Edgar Award in the category "best first novel." His second book, The Other Side of Midnight, landed on the first place of the bestseller list of The New York Times . Many of Sheldon's books cover steadfast women who assert themselves in a world ruled by hostile men. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AP_Obit_1-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  His novels also talked mainly female readers. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AP_Obit_1-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Sheldon was married for 30 years to Jorja CURTRIGHT Sheldon, a stage and film actress. She died in 1985 at a heart attack . Sheldon remarried after her death with Alexandra Kostoff, a former child star . <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]Sheldon had a daughter, Mary Sheldon, who is also a writer by profession.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Sheldon suffered for years from a bipolar disorder . In his biography The Other Side of Me, he describes how he was on his 17th suicide considered, but was stopped by his father.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Sheldon died on January 30, 2007 at the Eisenhower Medical Center on the effects of pneumonia . <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Sheldon_Bio_2-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYT_Obit_4-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] After his death, he was cremated and his ashes interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery . ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Prices  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Sidney Sheldon won in his life the following prizes:

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 * 1947: the Academy Award for best original screenplay - for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
 * 1952: The Tony Award - for his musical Redhead
 * The Naked Face (1970)
 * The Other Side of Midnight (1973)
 * A Stranger in the Mirror (1976)
 * Bloodline (1977)
 * Rage of Angels (1980)
 * Master of the Game (1982)
 * If Tomorrow Comes (1985)
 * Windmills of the Gods (1987)
 * The Sands of Time (1988)
 * Memories of Midnight (1990)
 * The Doomsday Conspiracy (1991)
 * The Stars Shine Down (1992)
 * Nothing Lasts Forever (1994)
 * Morning, Noon and Night (1995)
 * The Best Laid Plans (1997)
 * Tell Me Your Dreams (1998)
 * The Sky Is Falling (2001)
 * Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2004)
 * Mistress of the Game (2008)
 * The Other Side of Me (2005)
 * The Merry Widow
 * Alice in Arms
 * Redhead
 * Roman Candle
 * Gomes (London)
 * The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
 * Three Guys Named Mike
 * Annie Get Your Gun
 * Dream Wife
 * You're Never Too Young
 * Anything Goes
 * Billy Rose's Jumbo
 * Bloodline
 * I Dream of Jeannie
 * If Tomorrow Comes
 * The Patty Duke Show
 * Hart to Hart