Shavelson, Melville 1917-2007

Don't shoot, it's only me : Bob Hope's comedy history of the United States by Bob Hope ( Book )
8 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 2,445 libraries worldwide
Bob Hope's story of being there with the jokes at every vital point during the last half century of America's history.

Yours, mine & ours ( Visual )
5 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 1,220 libraries worldwide
When Coast Guard commander Frank Beardsley bumps into his old high school flame Helen North, sparks fly again, and the two quickly marry. Complications arrive when it comes time to merge their two families. Frank has 8 kids and Helen has 10 kids. With Frank looking to keep tight military control over the brood, and Helen preferring her loving, hippy-like ways of encouragement, the two struggle to maintain a family and home where the kids don't like each other and refuse to cooperate with any request for unity.

Yours, mine and ours ( Visual )
14 editions published between 1989 and 2010 in English and Multiple languages and held by 1,003 libraries worldwide
Widowed Navy nurse, Helen North, the mother of eight children, marries handsome Navy officer, Frank Beardsley, who is the father of ten.

Houseboat ( Visual )
11 editions published between 1987 and 2003 in English and Multiple languages and held by 732 libraries worldwide
Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.

On Moonlight Bay ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1979 and 2007 in English and held by 390 libraries worldwide
Musical about a family that moves to a small town in Indiana, where their tomboy daughter@ begins a romance with the neighbor across the street.

The seven little Foys ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1987 and 2004 in English and held by 320 libraries worldwide
A musical comedy based on the life of vaudevillian Eddie Foy. When Eddie's wife dies, leaving him with seven children, he puts the kids into the act and takes the show on the road.

It started in Naples ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1960 and 2005 in English and French and held by 259 libraries worldwide
Arriving in Italy to settle his late brother's estate and care for a nephew whom he has never seen, Michael Hamilton soon begins to enjoy the Italian sights, including the boy's beautiful and spirited aunt.

The princess and the pirate ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1985 and 2007 in English and held by 234 libraries worldwide
A 17th century entertainer exiled from England and shipped to America falls in love with a princess who is kidnapped by pirates.

A new kind of love ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 224 libraries worldwide
Sam buys (and steals) fashionable dress designs for a New York department store. When the store sends her to Paris for fashion week, she meets a newspaper columnist who takes no interest in her until she pretends to be the worldly call girl, "Mimi."

I'll see you in my dreams ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1993 and 2007 in English and held by 212 libraries worldwide
The story of lyricist Gus Kahn and his wife, from the day Gus walks into a Chicago music publishing house to his public triumphs, private failures, career decline and comeback.