Producer Allison Shearmur, RIP

Allison Shearmur, the executive producer of the ABC original movie Dirty Dancing, died on January 19, 2018. The Variety magazine's obituary begins:

Veteran Hollywood producer and executive Allison Shearmur, who produced the Hunger Games films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story, died Friday at UCLA Medical Center of complications from lung cancer. She was 54.

Shearmur worked as an executive at Disney, Universal, Paramount and Lionsgate before becoming a producer in 2011. Her producing credits included Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, Cinderella, Nerve and the upcoming The One and Only Ivan. She was an executive producer on Power Rangers, What to Expect When You’re Expecting and Abduction and a co-producer on the upcoming Chaos Walking.

She was an executive producer on the 2017 television movie Dirty Dancing through her Allison Shearmur Productions company. ...

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In the following video, Shearmur talks about her 2015 movie Cinderella.

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In the following video, Shearmur talks about her 2016 movie Nerve. That movie's screenwriter was Jessica Sharzer, whom Shearmur assigned to write the screenplay for the ABC original movie Dirty Dancing.