Production for I Dream of Jeannie ended in 1970 after five seasons. He also created and wrote for the series Hart to Hart. He later admitted that he did this because he felt his name was appearing too often in the credits as creator, producer, copyright owner and writer of these series. He also used the same pseudonyms in writing all seventeen episodes of Nancy. He wrote all but two dozen scripts in five years, sometimes using three pseudonyms (Mark Rowane, Allan Devon, Christopher Golato) while simultaneously writing scripts for The Patty Duke Show. Sheldon created, produced and wrote I Dream of Jeannie in his co-production capacity with Screen Gems. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the series.” So I produced The Patty Duke Show, and I did something nobody else in TV ever did. “I suppose I needed money,” he remembered. When television became the new popular medium, he decided to try his hand in it. He was one of the writers on the screenplay for the 1948 musical film Easter Parade and sole writer for the 1950 musical film Annie Get Your Gun, both of which featured the songs of Irving Berlin. His success on Broadway brought him back to Hollywood where his first assignment was The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay of 1947. He earned a reputation as a prolific writer for example, at one time he had three musicals on Broadway: a rewritten The Merry Widow, Jackpot, and Dream with Music. Returning to civilian life, he moved to New York City where he began writing musicals for the Broadway stage while continuing to write screenplays for both MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures. Sheldon enlisted in the military during World War II as a pilot in the War Training Service, a branch of the Army Air Corps, His unit was disbanded before he saw any action.
He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time.In 1937, Sheldon moved to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts and collaborated on a number of B movies. He became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling romantic suspense novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of Angels (1980). He went on to work in television, where his works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84). He came to prominence in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947) which earned him an Academy Award. Sidney Sheldon (Febru– January 30, 2007) was an American writer and producer.
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