Victor Heerman
Screenwriter and film director (1893-1977) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 84
Victor Eugene Heerman was an English-American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. 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.
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Sarah Y. Mason Also in The Poor Simp (1920)
Owen Moore Victor directed The Chicken in the Case (1921)
Thomas Meighan Victor directed The Confidence Man (1924)
Lillian Roth Victor directed Animal Crackers (1930)
Marjorie Daw Victor directed The River's End (1922)
Philip Moeller Directed The Age of Innocence (1934)
Adolphe Menjou Victor directed Rupert of Hentzau (1923)
Eugene Pallette Victor directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Stuart Erwin Victor directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Virginia Valli Victor directed The Confidence Man (1924)
Lawrence Gray Victor directed Love Hungry (1928)
Katherine Perry Also in A Divorce of Convenience (1921)
Richard "Skeets" Gallagher Victor directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Irene Dunne Also in The Age of Innocence (1934)
Fay Wray Victor directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Jack Oakie Victor directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Katharine Hepburn Victor wrote The Little Minister (1934)
Gary Cooper Victor directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Samuel Goldwyn Produced Stella Dallas (1937)
Ruth Chatterton Victor directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Ed Wynn Victor directed Rubber Heels (1927)
Evelyn Brent Victor directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Marshall Neilan Produced Don't Ever Marry (1920)
Snitz Edwards Also in Love Is an Awful Thing (1922)
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He is probably best-known to film buffs as director of the Marx Brothers' second film, Animal Crackers (1930). He and Mason were the first screenwriters involved in early, never-produced scripts commissioned for what would become MGM's Pride and Prejudice.
