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Screenwriter, author Sidney Sheldon dead at 89

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    Before writing best-selling novels about strong woman in a men's world (e.g. Rage of Angels and The Other Side of Midnight), Sidney Sheldon was involved in writing for some very well-known TV series, particularly I Dream of Jeannie and The Patty Duke Show.

    He created and wrote screenplays for Hart to Hart.

    Sheldon died Tuesday afternoon of complications from pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, said Warren Cowan, his publicist of more than 25 years. His wife, Alexandra, was by his side.

    Several of his novels became TV mini-series, often with Sheldon himself as producer.

    Sheldon started writing as a youngster in Chicago, where he was born on February 17, 1917.

    He sold a screenplay for South of Panama to Universal Studio for $250. It was made into a movie in 1941.

    He received a Tony award as one of the writers of the Gwen Verdon hit Redhead.

    His first assignment, The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer, starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple, brought him the Academy Award for best original screenplay of 1947.

    In 1949, he shared the WGA Award (Screen) for Best Written American Musical for Easter Parade with Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. In 1951, he won the same award single-handedly for Annie Get Your Gun. And in 1963, he was nominated in the category for Billy Rose's Jumbo.

    Sheldon produced The Patty Duke Show, writing nearly every series for its seven-year run. Another series, Nancy, lasted only a half-season, but I Dream of Jeannie, which he also created and produced, lasted five (1965-70).

    Sheldon was married for more than 30 years to Jorja Curtright Sheldon, a stage and film actress who later became a prominent interior decorator. She died in 1985.

    He married Alexandra Kostoff, a former child actress and advertising executive, in 1989.

    Along with his wife, Sheldon was survived by his daughter, author Mary Sheldon; his brother Richard; two grandchildren and other family members.

    Private funeral services were pending.
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