Victor Heerman

From a 1920 magazine

Victor Heerman (August 27, 1893 – November 3, 1977) was an English-American screenwriter, film director, 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 screenplay adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women in 1933. He directed the Marx Brothers' second film, Animal Crackers, in 1930.

Life and career

As director

• The Stolen Jools: 1931 (uncredited)
• Sea Legs: 1930
• Animal Crackers: 1930
• Paramount on Parade: 1930 (sequence director)
• Personality: 1930
• Moonlight and Romance: 1930
• Love Hungry: 1928
• Ladies Must Dress: 1927
• Rubber Heels: 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 Marriage: 1923
• Love Is an Awful Thing: 1922
• John Smith: 1922
• My Boy: 1921
• The Chicken in the Case: 1921
• The Poor Simp: 1920
• Don't Ever Marry: 1920
• The River's End: 1920
• Chicken à la Cabaret: 1920
• His Naughty Wife: 1919
• Watch Your Neighbor: 1918
• Are Waitresses Safe?: 1917
• A Maiden's Trust: 1917
• Pinched in the Finish: 1917 (unconfirmed)
• Stars and Bars: 1917
• She Loved a Sailor: 1916

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 (cuncredited)
• Golden Boy: 1939 (screenplay)
• Stella Dallas: 1937 (screenplay)
• Magnificent Obsession: 1935 (screenplay)
• Break of Hearts: 1935 (screen play)
• 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

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

External links

• Victor Heerman at the Internet Movie Database
• Victor Heerman at Find a Grave
• Victor Heerman papers at the Margaret Herrick Library