Writing

Leonard B. Stern

Born 1923-12-23 · New York City, New York, USA

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Nude Bomb poster
5.3

When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.

The Nude Bomb

1980

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion poster
6.1

Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion

1950

Three for the Show poster
5.9

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first husband, turns up very much alive and eager to see Grable.

Three for the Show

1955

Get Smart, Again! poster
5.5

KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.

Get Smart, Again!

1989

The Female Instinct poster
7.0

A spinster and her widowed sister, both authors of murder mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. Pilot to TV series The Snoop Sisters.

The Female Instinct

1972

Just You and Me, Kid poster
5.5

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Just You and Me, Kid

1979

Just You and Me, Kid poster
5.5

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Just You and Me, Kid

1979

Lost in Alaska poster
6.2

After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

Lost in Alaska

1952

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town poster
6.6

When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

1950

The Milkman poster
7.0

A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

The Milkman

1950

Missing Pieces poster
5.7

As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is!

Missing Pieces

1992

Missing Pieces poster
5.7

As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is!

Missing Pieces

1992

The Jazz Singer poster
6.0

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

The Jazz Singer

1953

Once Upon a Dead Man poster
7.0

The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder.

Once Upon a Dead Man

1971

Once Upon a Dead Man poster
7.0

The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder.

Once Upon a Dead Man

1971

Get Smart: A Man Called Smart poster
6.0

KAOS steals a secret formula that turns water into vapor and threatens the USA to dry up its entire water supply.

Get Smart: A Man Called Smart

1967