Stanley Shapiro
Highest Rated: 93% Pillow Talk (1959)
Lowest Rated: 56% For Pete's Sake (1974)
Birthday: Jul 16, 1925
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Former radio and TV writer with a facility for light, romantic comedy. Shapiro enjoyed a number of feature successes in the late 1950s and 60s, writing vehicles for stars Cary Grant, David Niven and Rock Hudson and Doris Day ("Pillow Talk" 1959). He co-wrote both "Bedtime Story" (1964) with Marlon Brando and David Niven, and its 1988 remake, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88% | 84% | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Screenwriter | $40.9M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | The Seniors |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1977 |
| 56% | 51% | For Pete's Sake | Producer | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Me, Natalie | Producer | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life | Producer | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bedtime Story | Producer | - | 1964 |
| 78% | 70% | That Touch of Mink |
Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1962 |
| 91% | 77% | Lover Come Back |
Writer, Producer |
- | 1961 |
| 86% | 78% | Come September | Screenwriter | - | 1961 |
| 93% | 87% | Pillow Talk | Writer | - | 1959 |
| 81% | 81% | Operation Petticoat | Screenwriter | - | 1959 |