Stanley Shapiro
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| Stanley Shapiro | |||||||
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| Born | July 16, 1925 New York, New York, USA |
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| Died | July 21, 1990 (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| Occupation | Writer, Screenwriter | ||||||
| Years active | 1953-1988 | ||||||
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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.
