Stanley Shapiro
Stanley Shapiro (* July 16, 1925 in New York City, New York, † July 21, 1990 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film producer and screenwriter who won the Oscar for best original screenplay for the script to Bettgeflüster 1960.
Biography
Shapiro began in the early 1950s as a screenwriter for film productions and acted first in 1953 at escape from Shanghai by Arthur Lubin in the creation of a film.
For the screenplay for Pillow Talk (1959 ) by Michael Gordon, he was awarded, together with Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene and Maurice Richlin with the Oscar for best original screenplay and was also awarded with Maurice Richlin a nomination for the Award of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for bestgeschriebene Comedy 1960.
In addition, he was responsible for the screenplay for Operation Petticoat (1959 ) by Blake Edwards with Paul King, Joseph Stone and Maurice Richlin 1960 also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as Richlin for the WGA Award for bestgeschriebene comedy.
Other nominations for the Oscar for best original screenplay he also received at the Oscar ceremony in 1962 with Paul Henning for A Lover Come ( 1961) by Delbert Mann and 1963 together with Nate Monaster for That Touch of Mink (1962 ) by Delbert Mann. For this scenario it and Monastero, however, were honored in 1963 with the WGA Award for Best Comedy.
In some of these films as A Lover Come and That Touch of Mink, he worked as a producer and was nominated in 1970 as a ninth -placed for the Laurel Award for Best Producer.
Other well-known films with screenplays by him were two successful seducer ( 1964) by Ralph Levy and the remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988 ) by Frank Oz
At the 1974 sitcom written by him Only in America about a Jewish family in New York at the beginning of the 20th century, although a pilot with Chaim Topol was filmed as a carpenter and head of the family, but not realized as a television series.