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Stanley Shapiro

 
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  • Born: Jul 16, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
  • Died: Jul 21, 1990 in New York City, New York
  • Occupation: Writer
  • Active: '50s-'70s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Romance
  • Career Highlights: Lover Come Back, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Pillow Talk
  • First Major Screen Credit: South Sea Woman (1953)

Biography

Producer/writer Stanley Shapiro came to films after years in the radio and TV mills. He specialized in frothy romantic comedies, usually starring Doris Day. He won an Oscar for the screenplay of the Day/Hudson hit Pillow Talk (1959), and also wrote the popular Cary Grant vehicles Operation Petticoat (1959) and That Touch of Mink (1962) (again with Doris Day as co-star). The last film to carry Stanley Shapiro's name in the credits was 1988's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a remake of Shapiro's 1964 farce Bedroom Story. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Stanley Shapiro
Born July 16, 1925(1925-07-16)
New York, New York, USA
Died July 21, 1990 (aged 65)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation Writer, Screenwriter
Years active 1953-1988

Stanley Shapiro (July 16, 1925 - July 21, 1990) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Shapiro earned his first screen credit for South Sea Woman in 1953. His work for Day earned him Oscar nominations for Lover Come Back and That Touch of Mink and a win for Pillow Talk, and Mink won him the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy.

Additional writing credits include Operation Petticoat, Come September, Bedtime Story, Me, Natalie, For Pete's Sake, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Carbon Copy.

Shapiro's last project was the television movie Running Against Time, based on his novel A Time to Remember. Broadcast four months after his death from leukemia in Los Angeles, it was dedicated to his memory.

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