Melville Shavelson

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Melville Shavelson - what members say

Yours, Mine And Ours review by Savage from London, England

Perfectly okay, in a dull sort of way 17 January 2008
...Writer-director Melville Shavelson had already made a film called 'Room for one more', about a couple adopting any number of babies, and he would later remake it as 'Mixed blessi... Read customer review

Legend Of Valentino on DVD (1975)
Starring: Franco Nero, Suzanne Pleshette, Yvette Mimieux
Director: Melville Shavelson
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A dramatization of the life of actor Rudolph Valentino but also a portrait of innocence against the corrupting forces of commerce and vulgarity.

36% from 33 members

Yours, Mine And Ours on DVD (1968)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Van Johnson
Director: Melville Shavelson
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After being set up by a matchmaker, naval officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda, THE GRAPES OF WRATH)--a widowed father with ten children--falls in love with Helen North (Lucille Ball, I LOVE LUCY), a naval base nurse who has eight children. They marry and the couple and their 18 children move into ..read more »

64% from 163 members

Cast A Giant Shadow on DVD (1966)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra
Director: Melville Shavelson
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In this story of Israel's difficult struggle for statehood, Kirk Douglas plays the role of colonel David Marcus, an American military officer who defied orders and led a faction of the Israeli Army in defense of its newly formed borders.

60% from 379 members

A New Kind Of Love (1963)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Maurice Chevalier
Director: Melville Shavelson
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A fashion designer and a newspaperman meet on their way to Paris and fall under the fabled city's spell. Paris. The perfect romantic setting for a funny, charming "opposites attract" comedy romp. Especially when the attracting opposites are Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The Oscar-winning stars (..read more »

41% from 7 members
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It Started in Naples on DVD (1960)
Starring: Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica
Director: Melville Shavelson
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An American lawyer in Italy escorting his nephew back to America, encounters some difficulty when the boy's aunt won't let him go. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Colour) Art Direction-Set Direction.

63% from 329 members

The Five Pennies on DVD (1959)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong
Director: Melville Shavelson
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Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz.

74% from 275 members

Houseboat on DVD (1958)
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Director: Melville Shavelson
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When Tom Winston's (Cary Grant) estranged wife dies in a sudden accident, he's left alone to raise their three children. Problem is, Elizabeth, David and Robert Winston haven't seen hide nor hair of their father in ages, and they aren't about to let him play the perfect parent now. Tom has to win ..read more »

68% from 1,270 member

The Seven Little Foys on DVD (1955)
Starring: Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, George Tobias
Director: Melville Shavelson
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Film biography of Eddie Foy, a legendary vaudeville performer who would later incorporate his seven children into his act. At the start of the movie, Foy is an avowed bachelor. But he quickly changes his mind about marriage when he falls for Italian ballerina Madeleine Morando. The two marry, and ..read more »

62% from 146 members

Legend Of Valentino - 2.0 stars
Yours, Mine And Ours - 3.0 stars
Cast A Giant Shadow - 3.0 stars
A New Kind Of Love - 2.5 stars
It Started in Naples - 3.0 stars

The Five Pennies - 3.5 stars
Houseboat - 3.5 stars
Yours, Mine And Ours - 3.0 stars
It Started in Naples - 3.0 stars
The Seven Little Foys - 3.0 stars

Legend Of Valentino - 2.0 stars
A New Kind Of Love - 2.5 stars
Cast A Giant Shadow - 3.0 stars
The Seven Little Foys - 3.0 stars
It Started in Naples - 3.0 stars

Sophia Loren - 2 times - show films
Clark Gable - 1 times - show films
Suzanne Pleshette - 1 times - show films
Angie Dickinson - 1 times - show films
Joanne Woodward - 1 times - show films