Vincent Sherman

...various stage productions, and although several screen tests were made, most of the roles were filled by studio contract players. Vincent Sherman, who had been in the Chicago production, was signed to reprise his small role of Harry Becker, a...

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...tale about a woman and her old flame. The screenplay by Ivan Goff was based upon a 1948 play by Kay Fanin. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Henry Blanke. Goodbye, My Fancy was the third and last cinematic...

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The Hard Way is a 1943 Warner Bros. Pictures drama film directed by Vincent Sherman. The film was based on a story by Irwin Shaw which was in turn based on Ginger Rogers' relationship with her first husband, Jack Pepper, and her mother,...

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Vincent Sherman (July 16, 1906 - June 18 2006), born in Vienna, Georgia), USA, was a Hollywood director . His movies include Mr. Skeffington (1944), Nora Prentiss (1947), and The Young Philadelphians (1959). He began his career as an...

In this article: The Young Philadelphians, Goodbye, My Fancy, Harriet Craig, The Damned Don't Cry!, Adventures of Don Juan, Nora Prentiss, Mr. Skeffington, Warner Bros., and Joan Crawford

...in the film noir style. The film, considered by some to be a "woman's noir", was directed by Vincent Sherman, who bought the story for $2500. Sherman also directed leading lady Ann Sheridan in another 1947 film noir, The Unfaithful. The...

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...is oblivious to the excesses of union-busting thugs on his payroll. For now-obscure reasons, Aldrich was fired, and underrated Vincent Sherman seamlessly took over. The story has honest but anti-union Lee J. Cobb challenged by his...

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...the statue if Hugh Griffith hadn't won for BEN-HUR. The movie is filled with good performances, everybody bringing it. Vincent Sherman directed the picture about as well as could be expected, bringing out fantastic performances from...

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...to businesswoman to needy, insecure, controlling star. The most amusing part of Chandler's book is the account by director Vincent Sherman, who made three films with Crawford. His bizarre tales include attending, with Crawford, a private...

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...trailers plus commentaries by screenwriter William Goldman (on "Harper"); director Arthur Penn ("Left Handed Gun"); director Vincent Sherman and film historian Drew Casper ("Philadelphians"); and Newman, Robert Loggia, director Robert Wise,...

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Vincent Sherman, 99, among the last film directors of Hollywood's golden age, who worked with and romanced Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth, died June 18 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif. No...

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