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Aug 9, 2007 · Melville Shavelson, a comedy writer, producer and director who worked with stars such as Cary Grant, Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and garnered two Academy Award nominations for his original ...
Aug 11, 2007 · Melville Shavelson was born in Brooklyn on April 1, 1917. (His mother adored the author of “Moby-Dick,” Mrs. Shavelson said.) He earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell in 1937 and afterward ...
Aug 9, 2007 · Melville Shavelson, the prolific writer, director and producer whose directing credits range from 1955's "The Seven Little Foys" starring Bob Hope to 1968's "Yours, Mine and Ours"; starring ...
Melville Shavelson is the author of Don't Shoot, It's Only Me (3.99 avg rating, 380 ratings, 64 reviews, published 1990), The Great Houdinis (3.00 avg ra...
Aug 9, 2007 · Melville Shavelson, the prolific writer/director of the 1950s and 1960s and frequent president of the Writers Guild of America West, died of natural causes on Wednesday at the age of 90 in his Southern California home. Like Billy Wilder, Shavelson was one of the rare directors of the studio system era who personally scripted a majority of his ...
In his four-and-a-half-hour interview, Mel Shavelson (1917-2007) talks about starting out as a press agent with Milt Josefsberg in 1938 and moving to Los Angeles the following year, with Mr. Josefsberg, to write for the radio show The Pepsodent Bob Hope Show. He discusses writing for the first commercial television program ever broadcast west of the Mississippi, for Paramount's experimental station W6XYZ (which became KTLA), in 1947. Shavelson discusses creating Make Room for Daddy and the ...
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