Sabrina (1954)
Co-author. A Cinderella tale, set on Long Island, outside New York City. The story revolves around Sabrina, daughter of the chauffeur on a large estate belonging to the Larrabee family. She returns from Paris, a worldly and sophisticated woman, and is then courted by the Larrabee brothers, Linus and David. In 1955, the screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award for its three writers, and won a Golden Globe for best screenplay. Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. Read more at Wikipedia.org
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
About the famous bandleader and pianist, who died at the age of 41 from leukemia. Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. Read more at IMDb.com
The Monte Carlo Story (1956)
A penniless gambler thinks he can score big by romancing a woman who is rumored to be wealthy. But alas, she, too, has no money. Vittorio De Sica and Marlene Dietrich. Read more at IMDb.com
Vertigo (1958)
James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes; co-author. The Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a retired detective and his fixation on a beguiling woman opened to mixed reviews, but over time it has become more appreciated, to the extent that in 2012 Sight & Sound, the monthly magazine of the British Film Institute, dubbed it the best film of all time, displacing perennial favorite “Citizen Kane.” Some 40 years after its opening, Hitchcock historian Dan Auiler published a book-length study of how the movie came about, Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic. Read more at IMDb.com, at SomethingElseReviews.com and at Wikipedia.org
Ingrid Bergman, Paris, 1960
Goodbye Again (1961)
Adapted from Francoise Sagan’s novel, Aimez-vous Brahms?, this love triangle movie tells the story of an older woman, already in love with a man older than she. But he’s quite promiscuous and she starts an affair with a man 15 years her younger. Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand and Anthony Perkins. Read more at IMDb.com
The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
Set in San Francisco, the movie (drawn from the Broadway play of the same name) focuses on the days leading up to the wedding of Jessica Poole. Her father Biddeford Poole, a world-traveling playboy, arrives in town for the nuptials and tries to persuade his daughter to join him on his travels and see the world. Fred Astaire, Debbie Reynolds and Lilli Palmer. Read more at IMDb.com
Three On a Couch (1966)
Co-author. About an artist who wants to go live in Paris for a year and take his psychiatrist fiancée with him. But she doesn’t want to leave her patients, all of them women. Eventually, the complicated plot, which involves Jerry Lewis impersonating three different men, gets resolved. Jerry Lewis (he also directed), Janet Leigh and Mary Ann Mobley. Read more at IMDb.com
Rosie! (1967)
Two women are worried that their rich, generous mother will give away their inheritance. Rosalind Russell. Read more at IMDb.com
Topaz (1969)
Another collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock. The movie, is based on the Leon Uris novel, revolves around the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba and a Russian spy ring in France. Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin and John Vernon. Read more at IMDb.com
The Love Machine (1971)
Adapted from the Jacqueline Susann novel. TV news executive romances several women, including the wife of the network chief. Robert Ryan, Dyan Cannon and John Phillip Law. Read more at IMDb.com