Victor Schertzinger

Victor L. Schertzinger ( born April 8, 1890 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, † October 26, 1941 in Hollywood, California ) was an American film composer director, screenwriter and film producer.

Life

Victor Schertzinger studied music at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Iceland and the University of Brussels in Belgium. He toured as a concert violinist, first around the world before he made his mark as a conductor for symphony orchestra. In 1916 he first came in contact with the film world when he was entrusted with the musical accompaniment of the film Civilization by Thomas H. Ince. Shortly thereafter, he worked as a director of a film series with the then popular performer Ray Charles, which produced Ince. With the introduction of sound to shear forties increasingly focused on his work as a composer. He wrote, among other things, some musical numbers for The Love Parade 1929 and Paramount on Parade of 1930.

His biggest financial and artistic success was in 1934 One Night of Love Grace Moore. Scherzinger was on the Academy Awards 1935, a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. The following year he turned with Moore Still Love Me Forever. The rest of the decade Scherzinger worked mainly for Paramount Pictures. Beginning of the 1940s he turned, among other things, two films from the successful Road to series with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, before 1941 51 -year-old died. He found in the Forrest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, his final resting place.

Filmography (selection)

Director