![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote 25 films during his lifetime including Jumbo and Anything Goes. His acclaim as a screenwriter was capped by the Oscar he won for the screenplay of The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (1947). Sheldon eventually returned to Hollywood and spent 12 years as a successful screenwriter at both MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures. He went on to win a Tony Award for the musical Redhead. At the age of 25, he had three musicals playing on Broadway- Merry Widow, Jackpot, and Dream with Music. After he was discharged from the Air Force for medical reasons, he began to write musicals and comedies for the New York stage. He had managed to break into screenwriting on a modest basis when World War II broke out. He went to Manhattan in hopes of becoming a songwriter, but decided to try the west coast where he was hired as a script reader by Universal Studios. Born in Chicago on February 11, 1917, Sidney Sheldon entered Northwestern University on a scholarship in 1935, but was soon forced to drop out due to the Depression. ![]()
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