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Pamela Wallace is a Scriptwriter and Executive Producer American born on 1949 at Exeter (USA)

Pamela Wallace

Pamela Wallace
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Nationality USA
Birth 1949 (76 years) at Exeter (USA)

Pamela Wallace (born 1949 in Exeter, California) is an American screenwriter and author. She won an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for the movie Witness. Wallace has also written 25 romance novels, under her own name and the pseudonyms Pamela Simpson and Dianne King.

Biography

Pamela Wallace est notamment connue pour avoir participé au scénario de Witness, ce qui lui a valu un Oscar. Elle est aussi auteur de nombreux livres du genre romance.

Best films

Witness (1985)
(Story)

Usually with

Harvey Frost
Harvey Frost
(3 films)
Cher
Cher
(1 films)
Margaret Blye
Margaret Blye
(2 films)
Leslie Hope
Leslie Hope
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Pamela Wallace (13 films)

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Scriptwriter

A Soldier's Love Story
Directed by Harvey Frost
Genres Romance
Actors Lori Loughlin, Johnny Messner, Stefanie Powers, Troy Winbush, Eric Pierpoint, Margaret Blye
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.3921453.3921453.3921453.3921453.392145
Un sergent de l'armée américaine tombe amoureux de la mère de l'enfant qui lui écrivait régulièrement alors qu'il était en poste à l'étranger.
Class
Class (2010)
, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Justin Bruening, Constance Marie, Eric Roberts, Ryan Carnes, Catherine Mary Stewart
Roles Writer
Rating68% 3.4442653.4442653.4442653.4442653.444265
Un jeune homme prétentieux, Will Sheffield s'apprête à terminer ses études de droit lorsqu'un professeur lui demande, pour boucler son dernier semestre, de défendre Kylie Burch, une cliente sans ressources. Le jeune homme, poussé par son père, qui souhaiterait qu'il se spécialise comme lui dans le droit des entreprises, n'est pas très intéressé par cette mission, et sa rencontre avec Kylie se révèle houleuse. Pour l'aider, il faut qu'il comprenne sa situation de mère célibataire et de son fils Shane Burch de 7 ans qui est asthmatique et très souvent malade…
Living Out Loud, 1h30
Directed by Anne Wheeler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gail O'Grady, Michael Shanks, Alex Ferris, Babz Chula, Patrick Gilmore, Jessica Amlee
Roles Writer
Rating53% 2.671872.671872.671872.671872.67187
Emily Marshall avait des aspirations et le talent pour être compositeur-interprète, mais elle a décidé d'épouser son mari.
Love's Unending Legacy, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Erin Cottrell, Holliston Coleman, Dale Midkiff, Braeden Lemasters, Dave Florek, Bret Loehr
Roles Writer
Rating68% 3.446623.446623.446623.446623.44662
Missie LaHaye bids a reluctant goodbye at the grave of her late husband Willie, who died two years previously in the line of duty as the sheriff of Tettsford Junction. Even after giving up her job as the town schoolteacher, Missie has found running the ranch on her own overwhelming, so she has resigned herself to letting her son Jeff and his new bride take control of it jointly with her brothers Aaron and Arnie.
Though None Go with Me, 1h35
Directed by Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cheryl Ladd, Amy Grabow, David Noroña, Alan Ritchson, Brad Rowe, Millie Perkins
Roles Teleplay
Rating67% 3.3942353.3942353.3942353.3942353.394235
Elizabeth Leroy is a young woman growing up during the 1950s in the United States. She has devoted her life to serving God but through many hardships and heartbreaks over the years, her faith is tested. She begins to question the purpose of her life.
Meet the Santas
Directed by Harvey Frost
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Steve Guttenberg, Crystal Bernard, Dominic Scott Kay, Armin Shimerman, Mariette Hartley, Parker McKenna Posey
Roles Characters
Rating56% 2.802322.802322.802322.802322.80232
Nicholas Claus (Steve Guttenberg) and Beth Sawtelle (Crystal Bernard) get ready to marry on Christmas Eve.
Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus, 1h36
Directed by Harvey Frost
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Steve Guttenberg, Cody Arens, Crystal Bernard, Dominic Scott Kay, Armin Shimerman, Thomas Calabro
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.902292.902292.902292.902292.90229
A single mother whose faith in love died with her former husband learns that Christmas miracles can still happen in director Harvey Frost's warmhearted tale of winter magic. Beth Sawtelle (Crystal Bernard) is a devoted single mother and advertising executive whose current campaign could put her on the fast track to the big time. The holiday season is here, and in order to sell the latest in video game technology, Beth's campaign needs the perfect Santa Claus. As Beth burns the midnight oil night after night and attempts to convince her young son Jake (Dominic Scott Kay) never to have faith in fantasies, the wistful young man pens a letter to Santa asking for a new dad for the holidays. It seems that up in the North Pole the time has come for Saint Nick to pass along the seasonal responsibilities to his son Nick (Steve Guttenberg), but in order to take the position, Nick must have a Mrs. Claus before Christmas Eve. Upon receiving the Christmas request from young Jake, Nick sets his sights on Los Angeles, and Beth Sawtelle in particular. Despite his best intentions, it's going to take more than a Christmas miracle to convince the dejected widow that love can still conquer all.
Straight From the Heart, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Theresa Polo, Andrew McCarthy, Patricia Kalember, Greg Evigan, Christine Tucci, J. Kenneth Campbell
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.3948253.3948253.3948253.3948253.394825
Jordan Donovan (Teri Polo), a photographer from New York City, is set up with Tyler Ross (Andrew McCarthy), a Wyoming rancher, by her roommate after her boyfriend fails to commit. Jordan flies to Wyoming to meet Tyler and his sister Laurie and her fiancé. Jordan learns his sister placed his ad in the singles magazine for him. Although Tyler is initially put off by Jordan's city slicker attitude, they find themselves drawn to each other.
Borrowed Hearts, 1h31
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Roma Downey, Eric McCormack, Héctor Elizondo, Cody Jones
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.3950453.3950453.3950453.3950453.395045
Sam Field (Eric McCormack) is a high-powered businessman and scion of a rich industrialist family with his own factory. Though a workaholic, Sam manages to enjoy a playboy lifestyle, having one girlfriend after the other, while struggling with never having lived up to his father's expectations. One day, his spokesman and best friend Dave Hebert (Shawn Alex Thompson) explains that a wealthy potential buyer of his company believes that Sam is a loyal family man. Even though he is not amused by having to pretend to be a married father, he agrees to the scheme of hiring actors to play his wife and son. After some unsuccessful rehearsals with his hired family, Sam is about to give up all hope of landing the deal, when a 7-year-old girl suddenly enters his house.
If These Walls Could Talk, 1h37
Directed by Cher, Nancy Savoca
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Political films
Actors Demi Moore, Shirley Knight, Catherine Keener, Jason London, CCH Pounder, Kevin Cooney
Roles Story
Rating68% 3.446173.446173.446173.446173.44617
The 1952 segment deals with Claire Donnelly (Demi Moore), a widowed nurse living in suburban Chicago, who becomes pregnant by her brother-in-law (Jason London) and decides to undergo abortion in order not to hurt her late husband's family. However, abortion at the time is strictly illegal. Claire eventually finds another nurse (CCH Pounder) who provides her the phone number of a woman who can find her someone to perform the abortion. The woman on the phone tells Claire that the only trustworthy abortionist she knows is located in Puerto Rico, and Claire cannot afford the travel costs. After a failed attempt to end her pregnancy with a knitting needle, Claire eventually contacts a man who comes to her home and performs a clandestine procedure on her while she lies on top of a kitchen table. Claire finally manages to abort, but dies shortly afterwards due to hemorrhage.
Tears in the Rain, 1h40
Directed by Don Sharp
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sharon Stone, Christopher Cazenove, Leigh Lawson, Maurice Denham, Anna Massey, Stephanie Cole
Roles Novel
Rating58% 2.900492.900492.900492.900492.90049
Jessie Cantrell's dying wish is that her daughter, Casey, personally take a letter to Lord Richard Bredon who lives in the UK. Though confused by this turn of events, Casey nonetheless sets off from her home in America to fulfill this last request. After a failed attempt to find him at his country residence, she falls in with Lord Bredon's son, Michael. At first the younger Bredon is suspicious of Casey's motives but soon the two of them find themselves in the midst of a deep and powerful connection that they both realize is love at first sight.
Witness
Witness (1985)
, 1h52
Directed by Peter Weir
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover, Jan Rubes, Alexandre Godounov
Roles Story
Rating73% 3.6976053.6976053.6976053.6976053.697605
Rachel Lapp (McGillis), a young Amish widow, and her 8-year-old son Samuel (Haas) are traveling by train to visit Rachel's sister. Samuel is amazed by the sights in the big city, but at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, he witnesses two men attack and murder a third. Detective John Book (Ford) is assigned to the case and he and his partner, Sergeant Elton Carter (Jennings), question Samuel. Samuel is unable to identify the perpetrator from mug shots or a police lineup, but notices a newspaper clipping with a picture of narcotics officer James McFee (Glover) and recognizes him as one of the killers. John remembers that McFee was previously responsible for a drug raid on expensive chemicals used to make amphetamines, but the evidence had mysteriously disappeared.

Production

A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride, 1h29
Directed by Leslie Hope
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Joanna García, Helen Shaver, Luke Perry, Jason Priestley, Kenneth Welsh, Lucas Bryant
Roles Executive Producer
Rating55% 2.7567352.7567352.7567352.7567352.756735
A wedding planner named Roxanne (García) tries to foil her mother's plans to get married to a man she just met by sabotaging their Christmas wedding. But she soon finds herself falling in love just as quickly as her mother did.