Victor Heerman

Victor Heerman
Victor Heerman
Born	August 27, 1893
Died	November 3, 1977
Spouse(s)	Sarah Y. Mason

Victor 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 (1940 film).^[2]

Life and career[]

As director[]

(1916, short)
: 1917, short)
: (1917, short)
: 1917, short)
Stars and Bars: (1917, short)
Watch Your Neighbor (1918, short)
(1919, short)
(1920, short)
The River's End (1920)
Don't Ever Marry (1920)
The Poor Simp (1920)
My Boy (1921)
The Chicken in the Case (1921)
A Divorce of Convenience (1921)
John Smith (1922)
Love Is an Awful Thing (1922)
Modern Marriage (1923)
Rupert of Hentzau (1923)
The Dangerous Maid (1923)
The Confidence Man (1924)
Old Home Week (1925)
Irish Luck (1925)
For Wives Only (1926)
Rubber Heels (1927)
Ladies Must Dress (1927)
Love Hungry (1928)
Paramount on Parade: (1930, sequence director)
Personality (1930)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Sea Legs (1930)
The Stolen Jools: (1931, short)

As writer[]

Magnificent Obsession: 1954 (based upon the screenplay by)
Little Women: 1949 (screenplay)
Meet Me in St. Louis: 1944 (uncredited)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob: 1941 (uncredited)
Pride and Prejudice: 1940 (uncredited)
Golden Boy: 1939 (screenplay)
Stella Dallas: 1937 (screenplay)
Magnificent Obsession: 1935 (screenplay)
Break of Hearts: 1935 (screenplay)
The Little Minister: 1934 (screenplay)
Imitation of Life: 1934 (uncredited)
The Age of Innocence: 1934 (screenplay)
Little Women: 1933 (screenplay)
Personality: 1930
Love Hungry: 1928 (story)
Ladies Must Dress: 1927 (story)
Modern Matrimony: 1923 (story)
Love Is an Awful Thing: 1922
John Smith: 1922 (story)
My Boy: 1921
A Divorce of Convenience:, 1921 (story)
The Chicken in the Case: 1921 (story)

References[]

^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland, ISBN 9780786410590
^ Looser, Devoney (2017). The Making of Jane Austen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 130. ISBN 1421422824.

External links[]

Victor Heerman at IMDb
Victor Heerman at Find a Grave
Victor Heerman papers at the Margaret Herrick Library

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[Vazzana-1] Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland, ISBN 9780786410590

[2] Looser, Devoney (2017). The Making of Jane Austen. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 130. ISBN 1421422824.

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1951–1975	Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951) Charles Schnee (1952) Daniel Taradash (1953) George Seaton (1954) Paddy Chayefsky (1955) John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe (1956) Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957) Alan Jay Lerner (1958) Neil Paterson (1959) Richard Brooks (1960) Abby Mann (1961) Horton Foote (1962) John Osborne (1963) Edward Anhalt (1964) Robert Bolt (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) Stirling Silliphant (1967) James Goldman (1968) Waldo Salt (1969) Ring Lardner Jr. (1970) Ernest Tidyman (1971) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972) William Peter Blatty (1973) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1974) Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben (1975)
1976–2000	William Goldman (1976) Alvin Sargent (1977) Oliver Stone (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Alvin Sargent (1980) Ernest Thompson (1981) Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Peter Shaffer (1984) Kurt Luedtke (1985) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe (1987) Christopher Hampton (1988) Alfred Uhry (1989) Michael Blake (1990) Ted Tally (1991) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Eric Roth (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Billy Bob Thornton (1996) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Bill Condon (1998) John Irving (1999) Stephen Gaghan (2000)
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