Melville Shavelson Biography (1917-)

Addresses: Agent: William Morris, 151 El Camino Drive, Beverly Hills,CA, 90212.

Famous Works

Principal Film Work
Writer/producer/director: Princess and the Pirate; Wonder Man; The Kidfrom Brooklyn; Sorrowful Jones; It's a Great Feeling; Daughter of RosieO'Grady; Always Leave Them Laughing; Where There's Life; On MoonlightBay; Room for One More; I'll Be Seeing You in My Dreams; April in Paris;Trouble Along the Way; Living It Up; The Seven Little Foys, 1955; Beau James, 1957; Houseboat, 1958; The Five Pennies, 1959; It Started in Naples, 1960; On the Double, 1961; The Pigeon That Took Rome, 1962; A New Kind of Love, 1963; Cast a Giant Shadow, 1966; Yours, Mine, and Ours, 1968; The War Between Men and Women, 1972; Mixed Company, 1974.
Principal Television Work
Creator, Make Room for Daddy, My World, and Welcome to It; writer/producer/director: The Legend of Valentino, The Great Houdinis, Ike, The Other Woman, Deception (forthcoming).
Writing
In addition to screenplays above:
Books
How to Make a Jewish Movie (non-fiction); Lualda (novel); The Great Houdinis (biography, based on screenplay); Ike (biography, based on screenplay); The Eleventh Commandment (novel).
Plays, Produced
Jimmy (book), NY.

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