“I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can”
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Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1940s and 50s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. He went on to work in television, where over 20 years he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), and Hart to Hart (19…
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entertainment · American writer (1917–2007) · writer · screenwriter · novelist · playwright · film director · actor · television producer · prose writer · researcher · film producer · also Sidney Sheldon, Sidney Schechtel, Sheldon
Born 11 February 1917 · Died 30 January 2007 · Q105118
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2007· 5 entries
Died 2007-01-30.
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Of pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, 12 days before his 90th birthday
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“Sidney Sheldon, o maior autor de best-sellers, partindo em férias com a mulher para Fairbanks, no Alasca”
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“Sidney Sheldon, ao ser indagado se seu problema psicológico, descrito em sua autobiografia, afetou de alguma forma sua escrita.”
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“Sidney Sheldon, ao ser indagado a respeito do porquê de sua fama.”
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Lucien Barrière Literary Award (1993).
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1990· 1 entry
Sheldon received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1988).
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Had a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars dedicated to him in 1994
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1987· 1 entry
Audio interview with Sidney Sheldon at Wired for Books
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1979· 1 entry
Sheldon created and wrote for the series Hart to Hart starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers
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1970· 2 entries
“Each morning from 9 until noon, I had a secretary at the studio take all calls. I mean every single call. I wrote each morning — or rather, dictated — and then I faced the TV business.”
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Sheldon wrote all 17 episodes of the short-lived series Nancy
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1969· 1 entry
Sheldon wrote his first novel, The Naked Face, which earned him a nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best First Novel
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1965· 1 entry
Sheldon created, produced, and wrote I Dream of Jeannie starring Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Musical for Redhead (1959).
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For his musical Redhead, starring Gwen Verdon
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1948).
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1945· 1 entry
“Regretfully, in less than a month, Jane and I realized we had made a mistake. We spent the next nine months trying in vain to make the marriage work.”
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1937· 1 entry
Sheldon moved to Hollywood, where he reviewed scripts and collaborated on a number of B movies
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-02-11.
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