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Melville Shavelson

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Book Writer 1917–2007

Melville Shavelson (April 1, 1917 – August 8, 2007) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987.

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Jimmy

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  • In 1954, the musical was radically revised for the screen as Living It Up . The Paramount film starred Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (the latter played Hazel—that is, Homer Flagg), and the cast included Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, and, in a reprise of her Broadway role, Sheree North (the film’s world premiere program spelled her…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • The life and times of New York City’s Mayor Jimmy Walker might have made a colorful musical. Indeed, the musical Jimmy (Winter Garden; Oct. 23, ’69; 84) was set in the same period as the hit Fiorello!, which had contained a song in ironic praise of Walker, and Jimmy ’s inexperienced creators obviously hoped that lightning would strike twi…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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