Victor Heerman

Director

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Also Known As

Victor Eugene Heerman

Birth Place

Surrey, England, GB

Born

August 27, 1893

Died

November 03, 1977

Biography

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Heerman began his career in the mid-teens directing Mack Sennett shorts before graduating to light, breezy features in 1920. He is perhaps best known for the Marx Brothers vehicle, "Animal Crackers" (1930). Heerman concentrated on screenwriting from the early 1930s and won an Oscar for "Little Women" (1932/33)....

Filmography

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The Stolen Jools (1931)

Galas de la Paramount (1930)

Paramount on Parade (1930)

Animal Crackers (1930)

Sea Legs (1930)

Personality (1930)

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Animal Crackers (1930) -- (Movie Clip) An Elephant In My Pajamas

Animal Crackers (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Hello, I Must Be Going

Family & Companions

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Sarah Y Mason

Wife

Screenwriter.

Biography

Heerman began his career in the mid-teens directing Mack Sennett shorts before graduating to light, breezy features in 1920. He is perhaps best known for the Marx Brothers vehicle, "Animal Crackers" (1930). Heerman concentrated on screenwriting from the early 1930s and won an Oscar for "Little Women" (1932/33).

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Stolen Jools (1931)

Galas de la Paramount (1930)

Paramount on Parade (1930)

Animal Crackers (1930)

Sea Legs (1930)

Personality (1930)

Love Hungry (1928)

Rubber Heels (1927)

Ladies Must Dress (1927)

For Wives Only (1926)

Irish Luck (1925)

Old Home Week (1925)

The Confidence Man (1924)

The Dangerous Maid (1923)

Rupert of Hentzau (1923)

Modern Matrimony (1923)

Love Is an Awful Thing (1922)

John Smith (1922)

The Chicken in the Case (1921)

The River's End (1920)

Don't Ever Marry (1920)

The Poor Simp (1920)

Writer (Feature Film)

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Based upon the Screenplay by

Little Women (1949)

A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (1941)

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Golden Boy (1939)

Stella Dallas (1937)

Magnificent Obsession (1936)

Break of Hearts (1935)

Imitation of Life (1934)

Additional Dialogue

The Age of Innocence (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934)

Contract Writer

The Little Minister (1934)

Little Women (1933)

Love Hungry (1928)

Ladies Must Dress (1927)

Modern Matrimony (1923)

Love Is an Awful Thing (1922)

John Smith (1922)

The Chicken in the Case (1921)

A Divorce of Convenience (1921)

Cast (Short)

How to Break 90 #1: The Grip (1933)

Life Events

1920

Feature film director

Videos

Animal Crackers (1930) -- (Movie Clip) An Elephant In My Pajamas A segment of one of the more famous Groucho joke routines, as Captain Spaulding recounting his African adventures for hostess Margaret Dumont and pompous are connoisseur Chandler (Louis Sorin), Harpo and Chico entering as the professor and Signor Ravelli, in the Paramount adaptation of the Marx Brothers stage hit, Animal Crackers, 1930.

Animal Crackers (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Hello, I Must Be Going Just introduced by his secretary (and little brother) Zeppo Marx, Groucho takes the stage as Captain Spaulding, African explorer invited to dazzle the guests of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont), with the first song from the Marx Brothers' Broadway hit, by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar, in Animal Crackers, 1930.

Little Women (1933) -- (Movie Clip) March Dining Room Theatre Author, producer and performer Jo (Katharine Hepburn) organizing sisters (Joan Bennett, Jean Parker, Frances Dee) for the Massachusetts March family Christmas pageant, staged by George Cukor in Little Women, 1933.

Stella Dallas (1937) -- (Movie Clip) That Iceberg-ey Way New mother Barbara Stanwyck (title character) with working class pal Ed (Alan Hale), her background showing, as increasingly snooty husband Stephen (John Boles) returns home, in Stella Dallas, 1937.

Stella Dallas (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Like The People In The Movie Social climber Barbara Stanwyck (title character) at the movies with blue-blood Stephen (John Boles), who's charmed for now, early in King Vidor's Stella Dallas, 1937.

Stella Dallas (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Stella's Got A Fella! Opening scene, Barbara Stanwyck (title character) setting her cap for impoverished society man Stephen (John Boles), then arguing with her working-class brother (George Wolcott), from King Vidor's Stella Dallas, 1937.

Stella Dallas (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Galleries And Museums Some years after her last scene, Barbara Stanwyck (title character), still residing in industrial Central Mass., takes in sewing (Lillian Yarbo her maid/assistant), grumbles that her estranged successful New York husband sends books for the birthday of her daughter, who has grown up to be Anne Shirley, bringing her teacher (Ann Shoemaker) home to visit, in Stella Dallas, 1937.

Magnificent Obsession (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Toast I'd Give You Two We meet daughter Joyce (Barbara Rush) and Helen (Jane Wyman) the second wife of Dr. Phillips, at whose home and clinic we know there is an emergency and where we meet nurse Nancy (Agnes Moorehead) and Dr. Dodge (Richard H. Cutting), early in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession, 1954.

Magnificent Obsession (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Look Shocked Fuming playboy Bob (Rock Hudson) hospitalized with Dr. Dodge (Richard H. Cutting) and nurse Nancy (Agnes Moorehead), unaware that not only is the head doctor (Phillips) dead but, through his own reckless accident, he helped cause his demise, in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession, 1954.

Magnificent Obsession (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Never Have To See Him Again Rich bachelor Bob (Rock Hudson), hurt in a speedboat wreck, has discharged himself from a small hospital and finds out that Joyce (Jane Wyman), who picks him up, is the wife of the chief doctor whose death, he further learns, he helped cause, in Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession, 1954.

Little Women (1949) -- (Movie Clip) You're On Fire! Jo (June Allyson) in her first rather forward visit with Laurie (Peter Lawford), the well-to-do but lonesome young man next door to the March girls of Concord, Mass., in MGM's Little Women, 1949, from the Louisa May Alcott novel.

Little Women (1949) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Storm The Citadel! March sisters Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth (Janet Leigh, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien) spending Christmas dollars with Grace (Will Wright), then returning to mother (Mary Astor), in MGM's Little Women, 1949.

Little Women (1949) - (Original Trailer) June Allyson is Jo and Elizabeth Taylor, Amy, seen here in the original theatrical trailer for the first color version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, 1949, delivered by co-stars Peter Lawford and Janet Leigh.

Imitation of Life (1934) - (Trailer for "Colored" Audiences) A preview for Imitation of Life (1934) intended for theatres with segregated non-white audiences.

Animal Crackers - (Original Trailer) The Four Marx Brothers reduce a Long Island mansion to chaos in the film version of their Broadway hit, Animal Crackers (1930).

Family

Catherine Heerman

Daughter

Born on February 5, 1922.

Victor E Heerman Jr

Son

Born on January 5, 1925.

Companions

Sarah Y Mason

Wife

Screenwriter.

Bibliography

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