Screenplay: Sidney Sheldon
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 39
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...
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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...
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