Screenplay: Sidney Sheldon

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Easter Parade

1948 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Fred Astaire · Judy Garland · Peter Lawford · Jules Munshin

Synopsis Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but she decides to start a career on her own. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. After a while this new team is...

6.8

498 votes

6.8

498 votes

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Irving Reis

Cast Cary Grant · Myrna Loy · Shirley Temple · Rudy Vallee

Synopsis Teenaged Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Barkleys of Broadway

1949 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Oscar Levant · Jacques François

Synopsis The MGM reunion of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 10 years after their last RKO picture, happened by accident. The Barkleys of Broadway was meant to pair Astaire with Judy Garland as a follow-up to their 1948 hit Easter Parade....

6.3

277 votes

6.3

277 votes

Dream Wife

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Sheldon

Cast Cary Grant · Deborah Kerr · Walter Pidgeon · Betta St. John

Synopsis Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji,...

6.1

175 votes

6.1

175 votes

The Other Side of Midnight

1977 · Movie · 165 min. · United States

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast Marie-France Pisier · John Beck · Susan Sarandon · Raf Vallone

Synopsis Beautiful Noelle Page meets dashing WWII American pilot Larry Douglas in France and falls in love. She expects him to marry her, but instead Larry abandons her. In the United States, successful Catherine Alexander meets Larry Douglas and they marry....

6.1

115 votes

6.1

115 votes

You're Never Too Young

1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Diana Lynn · Nina Foch

Synopsis When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.

5.8

64 votes

5.8

64 votes

Annie Get Your Gun

1950 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Betty Hutton · Howard Keel · Louis Calhern · J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised 'Doin' What Comes Naturally'. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in 'Colonel Buffalo Bill''s show, however, knows full well that's not how 'The Girl That I Marry' must be. Anyway, not at...

5.8

68 votes

5.8

68 votes

I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Sheldon · Hal Cooper · Claudio Guzmán · Gene Nelson

Cast Barbara Eden · Larry Hagman · Bill Daily · Hayden Rorke

Synopsis Captain Tony Nelson is an astronaut. While on a mission, he discovered a mysterious bottle. Opening it, he released Jeannie (a Genie) who was so overjoyed at her release she promised to serve Captain Nelson. Nelson is unsure what to...

5.8

398 votes

5.8

398 votes

Fly-By-Night

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Richard Carlson · Nancy Kelly · Albert Basserman · Miles Mander

Synopsis After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

Three Guys Named Mike

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Jane Wyman · Van Johnson · Howard Keel · Barry Sullivan

Synopsis Small-town girl Marcy Lewis (Jane Wyman) is accepted by Americal Airlines into their flight-attendant's school to become a air-hostess/stewardess, followed by her training events leading up to her first flight, which has to return to the airport because the stewardess...

5.6

31 votes

5.6

31 votes

All in a Night's Work

1961 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Anthony

Cast Dean Martin · Shirley MacLaine · Cliff Robertson · Norma Crane

Synopsis The founder of a one-man publishing empire is found dead with a smile on his face. His nephew inherits the business and finds himself caught in a series of big and small business misunderstandings. He's also falling in love with...

5.5

51 votes

5.5

51 votes

The Naked Face

1984 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Roger Moore · Rod Steiger · Elliott Gould · Art Carney

Synopsis For some inexplicable reason, a Chicago psychiatrist is the target of a gang of sinister killers. As his assailants move in for the kill, the doctor finds that he must face his adversaries alone in a deadly final showdown.

5.5

184 votes

5.5

184 votes

Rich, Young and Pretty

1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Jane Powell · Danielle Darrieux · Wendell Corey · Fernando Lamas

Synopsis Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with her father, Jim Stauton Rogers (Wendell Corey) -- a cattle baron-turned-politician, Elizabeth Rogers (Powell) falls in love with handsome Andre Milan...

5.4

25 votes

5.4

25 votes

Pardners

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Jerry Lewis · Dean Martin · Lori Nelson · Jeff Morrow

Synopsis A rich momma's boy returns west with the son of his murdered father's partner to foil a gang trying to gain control of his family ranch.

5.2

110 votes

5.2

110 votes

Bloodline

1979 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Terence Young

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Ben Gazzara · James Mason · Claudia Mori

Synopsis When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.

5.2

277 votes

5.2

277 votes

Hart to Hart (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Sheldon · Earl Bellamy · Tom Mankiewicz · Ralph Senensky

Cast Robert Wagner · Stefanie Powers · Lionel Stander · Lee Wilkof

Synopsis The globe-trotting adventures of amateur detectives Jonathan and Jennifer Hart.

5.1

448 votes

5.1

448 votes

Billy Rose's Jumbo

1962 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Doris Day · Stephen Boyd · Jimmy Durante · Martha Raye

Synopsis Pop and Kitty Wonder are the owners of the Wonder Circus and because of Pop's addiction to gambling they are constantly in debt and the creditors are very close to foreclosing on them. Their main attraction is Jumbo, the elephant...

4.7

138 votes

4.7

138 votes

Borrowed Hero

1941 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Lewis D. Collins

Cast Alan Baxter · Florence Rice · Constance Worth · John Hamilton

Synopsis Roger Andrews, an assistant district attorney, is the accidental hero of a police capture that results in his appointment by crooked civic leaders as a special prosecutor assigned to smash a crime ring. The crooked politicians, in an effort to...

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No Questions Asked

1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Harold F. Kress

Cast Barry Sullivan · Arlene Dahl · George Murphy · Jean Hagen

Synopsis Steve Keiver, young lawyer working for an insurance company, hears his boss remark that he'd pay a large sum "no questions asked" for return of stolen property to avoid paying a much larger claim. On his own initiative, Steve arranges...

Not rated

Not rated

Nancy (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Jerome Courtland · Claudio Guzmán · Alan Rafkin · E.W. Swackhamer

Cast Renne Jarrett · Robert F. Simon · John Fink · Celeste Holm

Synopsis Nancy Smith was the attractive young daughter of the President of the United States. She met a young veterinarian from Center City, Iowa (near Des Moines) and they fell in love. Unfortunately, being under constant surveillance by the two agents...

Not rated

Not rated