Background
Vincent Scherman was born on July 16, 1906, in Vienna, Georgia, United States, into the family of to Jewish parents: Harry and Vinnie (Scherman) Orovitz.
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1942
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1948
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Vincent Scherman was born on July 16, 1906, in Vienna, Georgia, United States, into the family of to Jewish parents: Harry and Vinnie (Scherman) Orovitz.
Vincent Scherma received his Bachelor of Arts at Oglethorpe University.
Sherman began his film career as an actor and appeared in several productions, most notably William Wyler’s "Counsellor at Law" in 1933. In the late 1930s he started writing screenplays, and his credits included the crime dramas "Crime School" and "King of the Underworld", both of which starred Humphrey Bogart. In 1939 Sherman made the transition to directing with "The Return of Doctor X", a horror film in which Bogart played a zombie. "Saturday’s Children" was a step up, a serious drama based on a Maxwell Anderson play; John Garfield and Anne Shirley starred as struggling newlyweds. Sherman explored various genres with his next films.
Sherman’s first important movie was "The Hard Way", a gritty show-business melodrama with fine performances from Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, and Jack Carson. "Old Acquaintance" was a popular drama starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins as feuding writers. Less popular was "Pillow to Post", a screwball comedy starring Lupino. Sherman tried his hand at swordplay with "Adventures of Don Juan", which proved to be a fine vehicle for Errol Flynn.
In 1950 Sherman made two films with Joan Crawford: "The Damned Don’t Cry!", which cast the actress as a poor woman whose dreams of wealth lead her to become a gangster’s moll, and "Harriet Craig", a solid remake of Dorothy Arzner’s "Craig’s Wife", about a domineering woman who tries to control those around her, including her husband. In 1952 Sherman made the Clark Gable – Ava Gardner western "Lone Star" as well as "Affair in Trinidad", the latter marking Rita Hayworth’s return to the screen after she retired to marry Prince Aly Khan; Glenn Ford costarred.
After Sherman fell under suspicion of holding communist sympathies, he was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee and subsequently “graylisted” by studios. He did not work again in Hollywood for five years, though in 1956 he codirected the Italian film "Difendo il mio amore." His credited return to the big screen was "The Garment Jungle", an exposé of efforts to keep a dressmaking company from unionizing; much of the film was helmed by Robert Aldrich, but he was fired and replaced by Sherman. After the British production of "The Naked Earth", Sherman made "The Young Philadelphians", a soap opera starring Paul Newman as an ambitious lawyer.
After the courtroom drama "A Fever in the Blood", Sherman directed "The Second Time Around", a pleasant western with Debbie Reynolds as a sheriff of a small Arizona town. The latter was Sherman’s last Hollywood film. His final feature, "Cervantes", was a European film about the Spanish writer.
Sherman subsequently focused on television. He made a number of made-for-TV movies, including "The Last Hurrah", "Women at West Point", the widely panned biopic "Bogie: The Last Hero", and "The Dream Merchants", a bland version of Harold Robbins’s best seller about the rise of Hollywood. Sherman also directed episodes of such television series as "77 Sunset Strip", "The Waltons", and "Baretta." He retired from directing in 1983. His autobiography, "Studio Affairs: My Life as a Film Director", was released in 1996.
Sherman was married to Hedda Comorau from 1931 until her death in 1984. He had two children with Comorau: a son, Eric Sherman, and a daughter, Hedwin Naimark. He had a number of high-profile affairs during his life, including on-set affairs with Bette Davis, and a three-year relationship with Joan Crawford. During the last nine years of his life, he was in a romantic relationship with Francine York.
