Stanley Shapiro

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Stanley Shapiro (* 16th July 1925 in New York City , New York ; † 21st July 1990 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film producer and screenwriter who for the screenplay for Pillow Talk 1960 the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay received .

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Shapiro began in the early 1950s years as a screenwriter for film productions and appeared first in 1953 in flight from Shanghai by Arthur Lubin in the creation of a film.

For the screenplay for Bettgeflüster (1959) by Michael Gordon , he was awarded the Oscar for best original screenplay along with Russell Rouse , Clarence Greene and Maurice Richlin and was also nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for the best written comedy in 1960.

He was also nominated for the 1960 Oscar in the category of best original screenplay and with Richlin for the WGA Award for the best written comedy for the screenplay for the company Petticoat (1959) by Blake Edwards, together with Paul King , Joseph Stone and Maurice Richlin.

He received further nominations for the Oscar for the best original screenplay at the Academy Awards in 1962 with Paul Henning for A Pajama for Two (1961) by Delbert Mann and in 1963 together with Nate Monaster for A Touch of Mink (1962) by Delbert Mann. For this script, however, he and Monaster were honored with the 1963 WGA Award for best comedy.

He was also a producer on some of these films, such as Pajamas for Two and A Touch of Mink , and was nominated for the Laurel Award for Best Producer in 1970 when he came ninth .

Other well-known films with scripts by him include Two Successful Seducers (1964) by Ralph Levy and the remake Two Ravishingly Depraved Villains (1988) by Frank Oz .

For the sitcom Only in America he wrote in 1974 about a Jewish family in New York at the beginning of the 20th century , a pilot film with Chaim Topol as carpenter and head of the family was shot, but it was no longer realized as a television series .

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SURNAME Shapiro, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1990
Place of death Los Angeles , California