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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} How to Make a Jewish Movie by Melville Shavelson How to Make a Jewish Movie by Melville Shavelson. Известность за Сценарий. Известно авторство 41. Пол Мужской. Дата рождения 1917-04-01. Дата смерти 2007-08-08 (90 лет) Место рождения New York City, New York, USA. Также известность как. Mel Shavelson. Войти для для отчёта о проблеме. Melville Shavelson. Биография. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. He came to Hollywood in 1938 as one of comedian Bob Hope's joke writers, a job he held for the next five years. He is responsible for the screenplays of such Hope films as The Princess and the Pirate (1944), Where There's Life (1947), The Great Lover (1949), and Sorrowful Jones (1949), which also starred Lucille Ball. Shavelson was nominated twice for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay -- first for 1955's The Seven Little Foys, starring Hope in a rare dramatic role, and then for 1958's Houseboat. He shared both nominations with Jack Rose. He also directed both films. Other films he wrote and directed include Beau James (1957), The Five Pennies (1959) for which he won a Screen Writers Guild Award, 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), and Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), which starred Henry Fonda and again with Lucille Ball. The film, a comedy about a widow (Lucille Ball) and a widower (Henry Fonda) raising 18 children together. When Ms. Ball later asked Mr. Shavelson how he enjoyed directing her, The Associated Press reported, he replied, “Lucy, this is the first time I ever made a film with 19 children.” Ms. Ball was not amused. In addition to his film work, Shavelson created two Emmy award-winning television series and wrote for a dozen Academy Award shows. He also wrote,produced and co-directed the six-hour ABC screenplay to the 1979 television miniseries Ike about Dwight D. Eisenhower, based on the World War II exploits of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. He also wrote, miniseries Ike, The War Years. Shavelson's autobiography, published by BearManor Media in April 2007, is entitled How to Succeed in Hollywood Without Really Trying, P.S. - You Can't! Shavelson wrote several other books, including, with Mr. Hope, “Don’t Shoot, It’s Only Me: Bob Hope’s Comedy History of the United States” (Putnam, 1990), and How to Make a Jewish Movie (1971), a memoir of his experiences while producing and directing Cast a Giant Shadow, and the Hollywood-themed novel Lualda (1973). Shavelson was a noted instructor at USC's Master of Professional Writing Program from 1998-2006. He taught screenwriting, who often cracked to his students, "I'm a writer by choice, a producer by necessity and a director in self-defense." Shavelson's first wife, Lucille, died in 2000. He was married to his second wife, Ruth Florea, from 2001 until his death in 2007. He had two children, Lynne Joiner and Richard Shavelson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melville Shavelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. How to Make a Jewish Movie by Melville Shavelson. Born: 1-Apr-1917 Birthplace: New York City Died: 8-Aug-2007 Location of death: Los Angeles, CA Cause of death: Natural Causes. Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Film Director. Nationality: United States Executive summary: Yours, Mine and Ours. Wife: Lucille Myers ("Lucy", m. 1938, d. 2000, one son, one daughter) Son: Richard Shavelson Daughter: Lynne Joiner Wife: Ruth Florea (m. 20- Dec-2001, until his death) AllMovie. Educated at Cornell University, Brooklyn-born writer/producer/director Melville Shavelson first channelled his creative juices into the world of press agentry. Tired of blowing everyone else's horn, Shavelson and his agency boss Milt Josefsberg wrote some comedy material and submitted it to comedian Bob Hope in 1938. Hope hired them on the spot, and though the comedian was tight with both a dollar and his praise, Shavelson remained with Hope until the late '50s. It was the Shavelson/Josefsberg team that helped develop the Bob Hope "character:" the brave coward, the impotent lover, the braggart with nothing to brag about, the man who never speaks when wisecracking will do. Shavelson worked on several of Hope's best films, including Princess and the Pirate (1944), Where There's Life (1947) and The Great Lover (1949). By 1954, Hope's box office was drooping, so Shavelson suggested that the comedian try a straight dramatic approach for a change. The resultant films, The Seven Little Foys (1955) and Beau James (1957), were both written and produced by Shavelson. It was Shavelson's contention that Hope was an accomplished enough actor to continue successfully in this vein, but when Hope decided to return to his old formula Shavelson felt that his writing skills might be better applied elsewhere. He went on to write and direct such box-office attractions as Houseboat (1958), The Five Pennies (1959), On the Double (1961) and Yours Mine and Ours (1968); in many instances, he also functioned as producer. On two occasions, Shavelson was honored with an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing. In addition to his work with Bob Hope, Shavelson also concocted comedy scripts for Danny Kaye and Groucho Marx. Though he'd severed most of his professional ties with Hope by the '70s, Shavelson had a long-standing handshake agreement to write and direct a Hope/Bing Crosby "reunion" picture, The Road to the Fountain of Youth, a dream dashed by Crosby's death; he also negotiated with Hope to work up a comedy about the Vietnam war, but the US invasion of Cambodia put the kibosh on that. Melville Shavelson was the author of two humorous, revelatory books about the movie business: How to Make a Jewish Movie (1971), a memoir of his experiences while producing and directing Cast a Giant Shadow, and the Hollywood-based novel Lualda (1973). Melville Shavelson. Melville Shavelson, who has died aged 90, was a top writer for cinema and television, a prolific director and producer, and for many years Bob Hope's chief comedy writer. This provided him with enough anecdotes to ghost four books for the comic, including his autobiography, Don't Shoot, It's Only Me (1990), and to produce his own account of the first trip by an American comedian to the Soviet Union. He wrote, produced and directed a string of Hope movies and films for Doris Day, Sophia Loren, Cary Grant, Lucille Ball and Danny Kaye, and worked for all the studio moguls. The 1950s were good times for making movies. Shavelson was a busy man when the studios were each turning out up to 52 films a year - and he was still writing, producing and directing after the system had radically altered. He liked to adopt a sports metaphor to describe the changing scene in Los Angeles - "There used to be Giants in this town," he said. "Now all we have are the Dodgers." Other giants who worked with him included Frank Sinatra, Groucho Marx, Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Kirk Douglas. Shavelson was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, and worked at his father's general store. He was educated at Cornell University, and early writing for American radio led to him meeting Hope, who recruited him for his "joke factory". Hope's demands made them hard times for a writer - and never more so than on his first day. "It was Billy Wilder's The Apartment come to life," he told me once. "I had rented an apartment that very morning. Bob said to me, 'Have you got somewhere to live?' I said, 'Yes'. 'Are you married or living with someone?' I said, 'No.' 'Good,' he said, 'leave the key under the mat. It'll be waiting for you at midnight.' When I got back home, I could see the marks of two sets of feet leading from the bed to the shower - and another two sets in the opposite direction." But it was the beginning of a good training period for Shavelson. He wrote his radio scripts when Hope entertained the troops during the second world war and was still doing so into the 1950s. By then, he had become head of the team and started writing Hope's movies. The first, in 1944, was The Princess and the Pirate for Sam Goldwyn. Five years later he wrote two Hope films, The Great Lover and the Damon Runyon story, Sorrowful Jones. In 1955 he wrote for and directed Hope in The Seven Little Foys - the story of the American vaudevillian who took his seven children on to the stage when his wife left him. James Cagney was also in the film, for which Shavelson was nominated for a screenplay Oscar. Two years later, Shavelson fulfilled the same roles for Hope's other biographical venture Beau James, based on the life of New York's colourful Mayor, Jimmy Walker. By that time, he had cemented a similar relationship with Danny Kaye and wrote two of the early Kaye classics, Wonder Man and The Kid from Brooklyn, which he said he worked on "as a kid from Brooklyn myself". In 1959, he directed and wrote (with his frequent partner Jack Rose, who was producer) Kaye's The Five Pennies, the story of the trumpeter Red Nichols.

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