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American screenwriter and film director
Victor Heerman |
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Heerman in 1920 |
Born | Victor Eugene Heerman August 27, 1893
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Died | November 3, 1977(1977-11-03) (aged 84)
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Years active | 1916–1949 |
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Children | 2 |
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Victor Eugene Heerman (August 27, 1893 – November 3, 1977) was an English-American
film director,
screenwriter, and
film producer.
[1] After writing and directing short comedies for
Mack Sennett, Heerman teamed with his wife
Sarah Y. Mason to win the
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of
Louisa May Alcott's novel
Little Women in 1933. He directed the
Marx Brothers' second film,
Animal Crackers, in 1930. He and Mason were the first screenwriters involved in early, never-produced scripts commissioned for what would become MGM's
Pride and Prejudice.
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Life and career
As director
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She Loved a Sailor (1916, short)
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Are Waitresses Safe?: 1917, short)
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A Maiden's Trust: (1917, short)
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Pinched in the Finish: 1917, short)
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Stars and Bars: (1917, short)
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Watch Your Neighbor (1918, short)
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His Naughty Wife (1919, short)
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Chicken à la Cabaret (1920, short)
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The River's End (1920)
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Don't Ever Marry (1920)
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The Poor Simp (1920)
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My Boy (1921)
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The Chicken in the Case (1921)
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A Divorce of Convenience (1921)
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John Smith (1922)
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Love Is an Awful Thing (1922)
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Modern Marriage (1923)
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Rupert of Hentzau (1923)
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The Dangerous Maid (1923)
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The Confidence Man (1924)
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Old Home Week (1925)
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Irish Luck (1925)
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For Wives Only (1926)
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Rubber Heels (1927)
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Ladies Must Dress (1927)
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Love Hungry (1928)
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Paramount on Parade: (1930, sequence director)
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Personality (1930)
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Animal Crackers (1930)
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Sea Legs (1930)
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The Stolen Jools: (1931, short)
As writer
References
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^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland,
ISBN
9780786410590
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^ Looser, Devoney (2017). The Making of Jane Austen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 130.
ISBN
1421422824.
External links
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1928–1950 |
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Benjamin Glazer (1928)
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Hanns Kräly (1929)
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Frances Marion (1930)
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Howard Estabrook (1931)
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Edwin J. Burke (1932)
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Victor Heerman and
Sarah Y. Mason (1933)
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Robert Riskin (1934)
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Dudley Nichols (1935)
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Pierre Collings and
Sheridan Gibney (1936)
- Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and
Norman Reilly Raine (1937)
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Ian Dalrymple,
Cecil Arthur Lewis,
W. P. Lipscomb, and
George Bernard Shaw (1938)
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Sidney Howard (1939)
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Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
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Sidney Buchman and
Seton I. Miller (1941)
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George Froeschel,
James Hilton,
Claudine West, and
Arthur Wimperis (1942)
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Philip G. Epstein,
Julius J. Epstein, and
Howard Koch (1943)
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Frank Butler and
Frank Cavett (1944)
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Charles Brackett and
Billy Wilder (1945)
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Robert Sherwood (1946)
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George Seaton (1947)
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John Huston (1948)
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
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1951–1975 | |
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1976–2000 | |
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2001–present | |
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