Buster and Billie

Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning American writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show , I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart , but he became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as Master of the Game ,... The Other Side of Midnight and Rage of Angels . He is the sixth best selling writer of all time. Sheldon was born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, of Russian Jewish ancestry, were Ascher "Otto" Schechtel , manager of a jewelry store, and Natalie Marcus. At 10, Sidney made his first sale, $5 for a poem. During the Depression, he worked at a variety of jobs, and after graduating from Denver East High School, he attended Northwestern University and contributed short plays to drama groups. He is the author of 18 novels , over 200 television scripts, 25 major motion pictures and 6 Broadway plays. In 1937 Sheldon moved to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts and collaborated on a number of B movies.
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Daniel Mannix Petrie was a Canadian television and movie director. Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945. One of his most famous credits was 1961's A Raisin in the Sun,... which was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed Buster and Billie , the Academy Award-nominated Resurrection , Fort Apache, The Bronx and Cocoon: The Return . He directed well-known television movies such as Sybil, Eleanor and Franklin, The Dollmaker and My Name is Bill W., and produced a 1999 remake of Inherit the Wind. His feature films were rarely box office successes, but they often feature large well-known casts , and his films are among the earliest screen appearances by such stars as Winona Ryder and Kiefer Sutherland . As a television director he was a winner of multiple Emmy and Directors Guild of America Awards.
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