Stanley Shapiro

Screenwriter

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Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died

July 21, 1990

Cause of Death

Leukemia

Biography

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Former radio and TV writer with a facility for light, romantic comedy. Shapiro enjoyed a number of feature successes in the late 1950s and 60s, writing vehicles for stars Cary Grant, David Niven and Rock Hudson and Doris Day ("Pillow Talk" 1959). He co-wrote both "Bedtime Story" (1964) with Marlon Brando and David Niven, and its 1988 remake, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," starring Steve Mart...

Filmography

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The Hustle (2019)

The Hustle (2019)

Running Against Time (1990)

Running Against Time (1990)

Book As Source Material

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Carbon Copy (1981)

Photos & Videos

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Lover Come Back (1961) -- (Movie Clip) It Looks Down On Madison Avenue

Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song

Biography

Former radio and TV writer with a facility for light, romantic comedy. Shapiro enjoyed a number of feature successes in the late 1950s and 60s, writing vehicles for stars Cary Grant, David Niven and Rock Hudson and Doris Day ("Pillow Talk" 1959). He co-wrote both "Bedtime Story" (1964) with Marlon Brando and David Niven, and its 1988 remake, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine.

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

The Hustle (2019)

The Hustle (2019)

Running Against Time (1990)

Running Against Time (1990)

Book As Source Material

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Carbon Copy (1981)

The Seniors (1978)

For Pete's Sake (1974)

Me, Natalie (1969)

How To Save a Marriage--And Ruin Your Life (1968)

A Very Special Favor (1965)

Bedtime Story (1964)

That Touch of Mink (1962)

Come September (1961)

Lover Come Back (1961)

The Perfect Furlough (1959)

Pillow Talk (1959)

Operation Petticoat (1959)

South Sea Woman (1953)

Producer (Feature Film)

Carbon Copy (1981)

The Seniors (1978)

For Pete's Sake (1974)

Me, Natalie (1969)

How To Save a Marriage--And Ruin Your Life (1968)

A Very Special Favor (1965)

Bedtime Story (1964)

That Touch of Mink (1962)

Lover Come Back (1961)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

How To Save a Marriage--And Ruin Your Life (1968)

Writer (Special)

McGarry and Me (1960)

Producer (Special)

McGarry and Me (1960)

Special Thanks (Special)

McGarry and Me (1960)

Life Events

1964

First film as producer, "Bedtime Story"

Videos

Lover Come Back (1961) -- (Movie Clip) It Looks Down On Madison Avenue Carol (Doris Day) has forced a hearing before the Madison Avenue ethics-enforcing “Advertising Council,” not knowing that her target, Jerry Webster (Rock Hudson, not seen) has tricked her witness, dishy model Rebel (Edie Adams) into hiding his dubious practices, in Lover Come Back, 1961.

Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song Cute graphics, the leading lady with the title tune by Buddy Pepper and Inez James, to Doris Day in the blue negligee and leading man Rock Hudson introducing the premise and the graphic gimmick, off to a rollicking start in their first picture together, in Pillow Talk, 1959.

Lover Come Back (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Wish I Were A Man Right Now! Ad man Jerry (Rock Hudson) is managing his neurotic boss and buddy Peter (Tony Randall), legacy owner of the agency, who's worried that competitor Carol (Doris Day) has filed a complaint, director Delbert Mann using the split-screen phone gimmick from Pillow Talk, 1959, early in Lover Come Back, 1961.

How To Save a Marriage And Ruin Your Life (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Ten After Five Playboy department store exeec Dave (Dean Martin) is wrongly advised that Carol (Stella Stevens) is his buddy's new mistress, in director Fielder Cook's comedy How To Save a Marriage And Ruin Your Life, 1968.

How To Save a Marriage And Ruin Your Life -- (Movie Clip) Open, Winds of Change How 60's can you get? Ambience from the Ray Conniff Singers with Michel Legrand and Mack David's "Winds of Change," the opening to How To Save a Marriage And Ruin Your Life, 1968, starring Dean Martin and Stella Stevens.

Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Has He Made Immoral Overtures? Joining infuriated party-line customer Jan (Doris Day), we meet her ever hung-over maid Alma (Thelma Ritter) then the phone company man (Hayden Rorke), following just the first encounter with the leading man (Rock Hudson) she hasn't yet met, in Pillow Talk, 1959.

Lover Come Back (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Until I See Him Sober Nearly 45 minutes into the movie, the stars on screen together for the firs time, Doris Day as ad-gal Carol reasonably presumes that bearded Rock Hudson, playing her rival Jerry, is actually the chemist Tyler, inventor of the so-far non-existent product “VIP,” implications abounding, in Lover Come Back, 1961.

Lover Come Back (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Looks Like A Rough Day Director Delbert Mann's opening, introducing Doris Day, and later her aide Ann B. Davis, and rival Madison Avenue ad man Jerry (Rock Hudson), with an uncredited companion, then assistant Karen Norris, and a new contract up for grabs, in Lover Come Back, 1961.

Come September (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Earliest Consumation The opening having shown the arrival of American tycoon Robert (Rock Hudson) in Milan, we meet Lisa (Gina Lollobrigida), whom we surmise is his one-month-per-year mistress, who has made plans without him, in the 1961 hit Come September, also starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee.

Come September (1961) -- (Movie Clip) She's A Beaut! En route from Milan to his villa at Portofino, American tycoon Robert (Rock Hudson) has a series of encounters with snarky fellow Yanks, college men, Bobby Darin as Tony, Joel Grey as “Beagle,” with Ronnie Haran and Chris Seitz, early in Come September, 1961.

Come September (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Analysis Would Help Him! Rich American Robert (Rock Hudson) hasn’t quite realized that butler Maurice (Walter Slezak) has turned his Italian villa into a hotel in his absence, and he’s still obfuscating when chaperone Brenda de Banzie and psych student Sandy (Sandra Dee) appear, in Come September, 1961.

Pillow Talk (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Bedroom Problems Interior decorator Jan (Doris Day) explains to again worse-for-wear maid Alma (Thelma Ritter) that her complaint to the phone company about her party-line partner (Rock Hudson as songwriter Brad) has failed, when he calls, their second indirect meeting, in Pillow Talk, 1959.

South Sea Woman - (Original Trailer) A Marine sergeant (Burt Lancaster) battles Nazi agents to help a showgirl escape war torn China in South Sea Woman (1953).

Pillow Talk - (Original Trailer) Doris Day and Rock Hudson give each other interference on their shared telephone line in Pillow Talk (1959).

Come September - (Original Trailer) A womanizing tycoon (Rock Hudson) ends up chaperoning a group of American girls who've rented his Italian villa in Come September (1961) with Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin.

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