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
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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
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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.