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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 nationally syndicated Sunday supplement published by the Detroit Free Press.
Sher wrote a number of films for Audie Murphy, including in 1959, The Wild and the Innocent, which he also directed. In the 1979 remake for TV, The Kid from Left Field, Gary Coleman (1968–2010), who starred in the series, accepted the NAACP Image Award for Best Children's Special of Episode in a Series. Sher's 1971–1972 television play, Goodbye, Raggedy Ann was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama – Original Teleplay.
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27 September 1961
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.
27 May 1959
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow.
30 September 1979
A bat boy guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands.
01 March 1956
A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate.
23 April 1953
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
30 December 1952
Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship.
25 December 1951
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
03 March 1985
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
01 July 1953
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie.
24 September 1958
A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egotistical little brat.
07 March 1973
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed.
01 September 1956
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army.
12 July 1961
Two platonic college friends spend a weekend away together. One is romanced by a member of the coast guard.
30 November 1960
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives.
15 May 1974
A successful engineer tires of his high-tension job and quits to start his own mail-order company, much to his mother's consternation.
29 May 1957
The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender.
18 January 1973
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.
19 December 1963
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.
24 February 1963
Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good.
22 October 1971
A compassionate Hollywood screenwriter attempts to talk a troubled actress out of taking her own life.
16 January 1957
Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film.