Writing
Jack Sher
Born March 16, 1913 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Died August 23, 1988 · aged 75
John Jacob Sher (16 March 1913 – 23 August 1988) was an American newspaper columnist, songwriter, film director, film writer, and producer. Born in Minneapolis, Sher wrote for several magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Redbook, Radio Mirror, Reader's Digest, and Collier's. He also had been a columnist for the New York Reporter, and from 1937 to 1940 Screen & Radio Weekly, a …
Known For
Paris Blues · 1961Paris Blues
★ 6.51961
MovieRomanceDrama
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
Shane · 1953Shane
★ 7.31953
MovieDramaWestern
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver · 1960The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
★ 6.61960
MovieMusicAdventure
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
My Favorite Spy · 1951My Favorite Spy
★ 6.01951
MovieActionComedy
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
Female Artillery · 1973Female Artillery
★ 9.01973
MovieComedyWestern
An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
Move Over, Darling · 1963Move Over, Darling
★ 6.71963
MovieComedyRomance
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann · 1971Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
1971
MovieDramaTV Movie
A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.
Hello Mother, Goodbye! · 1974Hello Mother, Goodbye!
★ 6.01974
MovieComedyTV Movie
A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother's consternation.
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