Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend (1981)
1h 40m
Running Time
October 5, 1981Release Date
Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend (1981)
1h 40m
Running Time
October 5, 1981Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
A lonely, gay, middle-aged artist shares his Manhattan brownstone with a young lady in a platonic relationship, and when she becomes pregnant by a married man, he decides to raise her child as his own.
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Cast & Crew.
Lorna Patterson
Laurie Morgan
Tony Randall
Sidney Shorr
Betty Carvalho
Nurse
Kaleena Kiff
Patti
Tom Fuccello
Reiss
Ann Weldon
Judge
David Huffman
Jimmy
John Lupton
Frank
Details.
This Movie Is About.
new york
single mother
Wiki.
Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend is a 1981 American made-for-television drama film written by Oliver Hailey and directed by Russ Mayberry. The film is based on a short story by Marilyn Cantor Baker. It stars Tony Randall, Lorna Patterson, Kaleena Kiff and David Huffman. It premiered on NBC as a two-hour pilot for the NBC series Love, Sidney on October 5, 1981. Oliver Hailey and Marilyn Cantor Baker won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Anthology - Original or Adapted and it was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special. The movie was one of prime time's first depictions of a gay man on television, and was protested by conservative organizations.