Stanley Shapiro (July 16, 1925 - July 21, 1990) was an Academy Award-winning American
screenwriter and producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films.
Born in
Brooklyn, New
York
, Shapiro earned his first screen credit for
South Sea Woman in 1953. His work for Day earned
him Oscar nominations for
Lover Come
Back and
That Touch of
Mink and a win for
Pillow Talk, and
Mink won
him the
Writers Guild of
America Award for Best Written American Comedy.
Additional writing credits include
Operation Petticoat,
Come September,
Bedtime Story,
Me, Natalie,
For Pete's Sake,
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,
and
Carbon Copy.
Shapiro's last project was the
television movie Running Against
Time, based on his novel
A Time to Remember.
Broadcast
four months after his death from leukemia
in Los
Angeles
, it was dedicated to his memory.
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