Vincent Sherman
Vincent Sherman ( * July 16, 1906 in Vienna, Georgia, † June 18, 2006 in Woodland Hills, California ) was an American film director.
Life
Vincent Sherman began his career in 1933 as an actor. After several engagements on Broadway, he came in the same year after Hollyoood, where he worked in the John Barrymore Strip Counsellor -at-Law got roles among others. After a few minor roles, he moved towards the end of the decade behind the camera and turned it off in 1939 for the company Warner Brothers a number of unpretentious B-movies. His breakthrough came in 1942 with the melodrama The Hard Way in which Ida Lupino is a failed actress who wants her younger sister run at any price to fame. Lupino won the New York Film Critics for her performance and Vincent Sherman was in the following year one of the most complicated and toughest tasks ever assigned to: the completion of Old Acquaintance, play befriended writers in the Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, who fight over a man. The shooting was turbulent from the start. Norma Shearer refused the lead role opposite Bette Davis. Miriam Hopkins took the part and from the first day the stars fought without ceasing, so that the first director Edmund Goulding had a heart attack ( others claim that he had faked him to be released from the filming ). Sherman managed to finish the movie and Bette Davis was so pleased with the results that he has directed the following year with their production of Mr. Skeffington.
In subsequent years, Sherman became one of the house-directors of the studio, and could it in his films to combine the often melodramatic twists of the script in a well -told story. Most famous are the three films that Sherman consecutively turned directly with Joan Crawford today. Starting with In the pay of Satan and the liar it were all perfectly crafted staged star vehicle, which were very successful at the box office in part.
A short time later left Sherman his studio and his career faded swiftly. In later years he was employed lot on TV.
In the book, People Will Talk by film historian John Kobal Sherman gave a depth interview, in which he especially came in to work with two such different stars such as Joan Crawford and Bette Davis.
He died just a month before his 100th birthday in Los Angeles.