De omschrijving ‘typische studioregisseur’ is zeker van toepassing op acteur, scenarioschrijver en filmregisseur Vincent Sherman (1906-2006), die van 1934-1950 onafgebroken bij Warner Bros. werkte en er zowat alle opdrachten aannam die hem werden aangeboden. Als regisseur—vanaf 1939—stond hij bekend en werd hij geprezen omdat hij snel en efficiënt werkte, binnen zijn budget bleef en goed kon opschieten—of op z’n minst obstakels kon overwinnen—met moeilijke sterren als Joan Crawford en Bette Davis (foto bovenaan: Bette Davis en Vincent Sherman op de set van “Mr. Skeffington,” 1944).

Tijdens zijn carrière, die bijna een halve eeuw duurde, was hij bevriend met Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Ava Gardner en John Garfield, die hij regisseerde in “Saturday’s Children” (1940), een depressiedrama dat Garfield de kans gaf om te breken met misdaadfilms. Vincent Sherman regisseerde véél sterren—vooral actrices, waaronder Ida Lupino, één van de baanbrekende vrouwelijke regisseurs—en kon verhalen vertellen als geen ander.

Het volledige gesprek uit 1999 is hier in het Engels terug te vinden.

FILMS

COUNSELLOR AT LAW (1933) DIR William Wyler PROD Carl Laemmle, Jr. SCR Elmer Rice (also play “Counsellor at Law” [1931]) CAM Norbert Brodine ED Daniel Mandell CAST John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Melvyn Douglas, Thelma Todd, Mayo Methot, Clara Langsner, John Hammond Dailey, Vincent Sherman (Harry Becker), Richard Quine

SPEED WINGS (1934) DIR Otto Brower SCR Horace McCoy (also story) CAM Al Siegler ED John Rawlins CAST Tim McCoy, Evalyn Knapp, Billy Bakewell, Vincent Sherman (Mickey), Hooper Atchley, Ben Hewlett, Jack Long, Ward Bond, Frank Tomick

THE CRIME OF HELEN STANLEY (1934) DIR D. Ross Lederman SCR Harold Shumate (story by Charles R. Condon) CAM Al Siegler ED Otto Meyer CAST Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Gail Patrick, Kane Richmond, Bradley Page, Vincent Sherman (Karl Williams), Phillip Trent, Arthur Rankin, Lucien Prival, Ward Bond

GIRL IN DANGER (1934) DIR D. Ross Lederman SCR Harold Shumate (also story) CAM Benjamin Kline ED Otto Meyer CAST Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, J. Carrol Naish, Charles Sabin, Ward Bond, Vincent Sherman (Willie Tolini)

ONE IS GUILTY (1934) DIR Lambert Hillyer SCR Harold Shumate (also story) CAM John Stumar CAST Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Warren Hymer, Rita La Roy, J. Carrol Naish, Wheeler Oakman, Ruth Abbott, Willard Robertson, Ralph Remley, Vincent Sherman (William Malcolm), Harry Todd

HELL BENT FOR LOVE (1934) DIR D. Ross Lederman SCR Harold Shumate (also story) CAM Benjamin H. Kline ED Otto Meyer CAST Tim McCoy, Lilian Bond, Bradley Page, Vincent Sherman (Johnny Frank), Lafe McKee, Harry C. Bradley, Wedgwood Nowell, Ernie Sturgis, Ernie Adams, Hal Price

MIDNIGHT ALIBI (1934) DIR Alan Crosland SCR Warren Duff (story “The Old Doll’s House” by Damon Runyon) CAM William Rees ED Jack Killifer MUZ Heinz Roemheld CAST Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler, Helen Lowell, Henry O’Neill, Robert Barrat, Robert McWade, Purnell Pratt, Vincent Sherman (Black Mike)

CRIME SCHOOL (1938) DIR Lewis Seiler SCR Vincent Sherman, Crane Wilbur (story by Crane Wilbur) CAM Arthur Todd ED Terry Morse MUS Max Steiner CAST Humphrey Bogart, The Dead End Kids, Gale Page, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsly, Gabriel Dell, George Offerman Jr.

MY BILL (1938) DIR John Farrow SCR Vincent Sherman, Robertson White (play “Courage” by Tom Barry) CAM Sid Hickox ED Frank Magee MUS Howard Jackson CAST Kay Francis, Bonita Granville, John Litel, Anita Louise, Bobby Jordan, Dickie Moore, Maurice Murphy, Elisabeth Risdon, Helena Phillips Evans

HEART OF THE NORTH (1938) DIR Lewis Seiler SCR Vincent Sherman, Lee Katz (novel “Heart of the North” by William Byron Mowery) CAM L. William O’Connell ED Louis Hesse MUS Adolph Deutsch CAST Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson, Gale Page, Allen Jenkins, Patric Knowles, Janet Chapman, James Stephenson, Anthony Averill

KING OF THE UNDERWORLD (1939) DIR Lewis Seiler SCR Vincent Sherman, George Bricker (story by W.R. Burnett) CAM Sid Hickox ED Frank DeWar MUS Heinz Roemheld CAST Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson, John Eldredge, Jessie Busley, Arthur Aylesworth, Raymond Brown, Harland Tucker

THE ADVENTURES OF JANE ARDEN (1939) DIR Terry O. Morse PROD Bryan Foy SCR Vincent Sherman, Lawrence Kimble, Charles W. Curran (comic strip by Monte Barrett, Russell E. Ross) CAM L. William O’Connell ED Harold McLernon MUS Howard Jackson CAST Rosella Towne, William Gargan, James Stephenson, Benny Rubin, Dennie Moore

PRIDE OF THE BLUE GRASS (1939) DIR William McGann PROD Bryan Foy SCR Vincent Sherman (also story “Gantry the Great”) CAM Ted McCord ED Frank Dewar MUS Howard Jackson CAST Edith Fellows, James McCallion, Granville Bates, Aldrich Bowker, Arthur Loft, William Hopper, Frankie Burke, Frederic Tozere

THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X (1939) DIR Vincent Sherman SCR Lee Katz (story by William J. Makin) CAM Sid Hickox ED Thomas Pratt MUS Bernhard Kaun CAST Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Dennis Morgan, John Litel, Lya Lys

SATURDAY’S CHILDREN (1940) DIR Vincent Sherman SCR Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein (play “Saturday’s Children” [1927] by Maxwell Anderson) CAM James Wong Howe ED Owen Marks CAST John Garfield, Anne Shirley, Claude Rains, Roscoe Karns, Lee Patrick, Dennie Moore, Elisabeth Risdon, Berton Churchill

THE MAN WHO TALKED TOO MUCH (1940) DIR Vincent Sherman SCR Walter DeLeon, Earl Baldwin (play “The Mouthpiece” [1929] by Frank L. Collins) CAM Sidney Hickox ED Thomas Pratt MUS Heinz Roemheld CAST George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, William Lundigan, George Tobias, John Litel, Henry Armetta

FLIGHT FROM DESTINY (1941) DIR Vincent Sherman SCR Barry Trivers (story by Anthony Berkeley) CAM James Van Trees ED Thomas Richards CAST Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn, James Stephenson, Mona Maris, Jonathan Hale, Mona Maris, David Bruce, Thurston Hall

UNDERGROUND (1941) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Bryan Foy SCR Charles Grayson (story by Edwin Justus Mayer, Oliver H.P. Garrett) CAM Sidney Hickox ED Thomas Pratt MUS Adolph Deutsch CAST Jeffrey Lynn, Philip Dorn, Karen Verne, Mona Maris, Peter Whitney, Martin Kosleck, Erwin Kalser, Ilka Grüning, Frank Reicher

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1941) DIR Vincent Sherman SCR Leonard Spigelgass, Edwin Gilbert (story by Leonard Spigelgass, Leonard Q. Ross) CAM Sidney Hickox ED Rudi Fehr MUS Adolph Deutsch CAST Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh, Peter Lorre, Judith Anderson, William Demarest, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers

THE HARD WAY (1942) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Jerry Wald SCR Daniel Fuchs, Peter Viertel (story by Jerry Wald) CAM James Wong Howe ED Thomas Pratt MUS Heinz Roemheld CAST Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Gladys George, Faye Emerson, Paul Cavanaugh, Julie Bishop

OLD ACQUAINTANCE (1943) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Henry Blanke SCR John Van Druten, Leonore Coffee (play “Old Acquaintance” [1940] by John Van Druten) by John Van Druten) CAM Sol Polito ED Terry O. Morse MUS Franz Waxman CAST Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Philip Reed, Roscoe Karns, Anne Revere

IN OUR TIME (1944) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Jerry Wald SCR Ellis St Joseph, Howard Koch CAM Carl E. Guthrie ED Rudi Fehr MUS Franz Waxman CAST Ida Lupino, Paul Henried, Nancy Coleman, Mary Boland, Victor Francen, Alla Nazimova, Michael Chekhov, Cyd Charisse, Bess Flowers

MR. SKEFFINGTON (1944) DIR Vincent Sherman POD Julius J. Epstein SCR Julius J. Epstein (novel “Mr. Skeffington” [1940] by Elizabeth von Arnim) CAM Ernest Haller ED Ralph Dawson MUS Franz Waxman CAST Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, Richard Waring, George Coulouris, Marjorie Riordian, Robert Shayne, John Alexander, Jerome Cowan, Bess Flowers

PILLOW TO POST (1945) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Alex Gottlieb SCR Charles Hoffman (play “Pillow to Post” [1943] by Rose Simon Kohn) CAM Wesley Anderson ED Alan Crosland Jr. Friedrich Hollaender CAST Ida Lupino, Sidney Greenstreet, William Prince, Stuart Erwin, Johnny Mitchell, Ruth Donnelly, Barbara Brown, Louis Armstrong, Dorothy Dandridge

JANIE GETS MARRIED (1946) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Alex Gottlieb SCR Agnes Christine Johnston (characters created by Josephine Bentham, Herschel V. Williams Jr.) CAM Carl E. Guthrie ED Christian Nyby MUS Friedrich Hollaender CAST Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Malone, Donald Meek, Hattie McDaniel, Margaret Hamilton, Ann Gillis

NORA PRENTISS (1947) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD William Jacobs SCR N. Richard Nash (story by Jack Sobell, Paul Webster) CAM James Wong Howe ED Owen Marks MUS Franz Waxman CAST Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda, Rosemary DeCamp, John Ridgely, Wanda Hendrix, Bess Flowers

THE UNFAITHFUL (1947) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Jerry Wald SCR David Goodis, James Gunn (novel by W. Somerset Maugham) CAM Ernest Haller ED Alan Crosland Jr. MUS Max Steiner CAST Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jerome Cowan, Steven Geray, John Hoyt, Peggy Knudsen

ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN (1948) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Jerry Wald SCR George Oppenheimer, Harry Kurnitz (story by Herbert Dalmas) CAM Elwood Bredell ED Alan Crosland Jr. MUS Max Steiner CAST Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Romney Brent, Ann Rutherford, Robert Warwick, Jerry Austin, Raymond Burr

THE HASTY HEART (1949) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Vincent Sherman [uncredited] SCR Ranald McDougall (play “The Hasty Heart” [1945] by John Patrick) CAM Wilkie Cooper ED E.B. Jarvis MUS Jack Beaver CAST Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls, Howard Crawford, Ralph Michael, John Sherman

BACKFIRE (1950) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Jerry Wald SCR Laurence B. Marcus, Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff (story by Lawrence B. Marcus) CAM Carl Guthrie ED Thomas Reilly MUS Ray Heindorf CAST Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Dane Clark, Viveca Lindfors, Ed Begley, Francis Robertson, Richard Dober

THE DAMNED DON’T CRY (1950) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Jerry Wald SCR Jerome Weidman, Harold Medford (story “Case History” by Gertrude Walker) CAM Ted D. McCord ED Rudi Fehr MUS Daniele Amfitheatrof CAST Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Hugh Sanders, Selena Royle, Jacqueline DeWitt, Morris Ankrum, Richard Egan, Bess Flowers, Strother Martin

HARRIET CRAIG (1950) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD William Dozier SCR Ann Froelich, James Gunn (play “Craig’s Wife” [1925] by George Kelly) CAM Joseph Walker ED Viola Lawrence MUS George Duning CAST Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson, Allyn Jolsyn, William Bishop, K. T. Stevens, Viola Roache, Raymond Greenleaf, Ellen Corby

GOODBYE, MY FANCY (1951) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Henry Blanke SCR Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts (play “Goodbye, My Fancy” [1948] by Fay Kanin) CAM Ted McCord ED Rudi Fehr MUS Ray Heindorf CAST Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Arden, Janice Rule, Lurene Tuttle, Howard St. John, Viola Roache, Ellen Corby

LONE STAR (1952) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Z. Wayne Griffin SCR Borden Chase (story by Howard Estabrook) CAM Harold Rosson ED Ferris Webster MUS David Buttolph CAST Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi, Ed Begley, James Burke, William Farnum

AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD (1952) DIR – PROD Vincent Sherman SCR Oscar Saul, James Gunn (story by Virginia Van Upp, Berne Giler) CAM Joseph Walker ED Viola Lawrence MUS Charles Duning CAST Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis, Torin Thatcher, Howard Wendell, Juanita Moore

GARMENT JUNGLE (1957) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Harry Kleiner SCR Harry Kleiner (also story; Reader’s Digest article “Gangsters in the Dress Business” by Lester Velie) CAM Joseph F. Biroc ED William A. Lyon MUS Leith Stevens CAST Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia, Joseph Wiseman, Harold J. Stone

THE NAKED EARTH (1958) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Adrian D. Worker SCR Milton Holmes, Harold Buchman (also story) CAM Erwin Hillier ED Russell Lloyd MUS Arthur Benjamin CAST Richard Todd, Juliette Gréco, Finlay Currie, John Kitzmiller, Laurence Naismith, Orlando Martins, Christopher Rhodes

THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS (1959) DIR Vincent Sherman SCR James Gunn (novel “The Philadelphian” [1956] by Richard P. Powell) CAM Harry Stradling Sr. ED William H. Ziegler MUS Ernest Gold CAST Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith, Diane Brewster, Billie Burke, John Williams, Robert Vaughn, Otto Kruger, Adam West, Bess Flowers

DEFEND MY LOVE (1959) DIR Vincent Sherman, Giulio Macchi PROD Silvio Clementelli SCR Giorgio Prosperi, Jacques Robert (story by Ettre Giannini, Suso Cecchi D’Amico) CAM Gianni Di Venanzo ED Mario Serandrei MUS Renzo Rossellini CAST Martine Carol, Gabriele Ferzetti, Vittorio Gassman, Charles Vanel, Giorgia Moll, Arnoldo Foà

ICE PALACE (1960) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Henry Blanke SCR Harry Kleiner (novel “Ice Palace” [1958] by Edna Ferber) CAM Joseph F. Biroc ED William H. Ziegler MUS Max Steiner CAST Richard Burton, Robert Ryan, Carolyn Jones, Martha Hyer, Jim Backus, Ray Danton, Diane McBain, Karl Swenson, Shirley Knight

A FEVER IN THE BLOOD (1961) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Roy Huggins SCR Roy Huggins, Harry Kleiner (novel “A Fever in the Blood” [1959] by William Pearson) CAM J. Peverell Marley ED William H. Ziegler MUS Ernest Gold CAST Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Angie Dickinson, Jack Kelly, Don Ameche, Ray Danton, Herbert Marshall, Andra Martin, Jesse White, Carroll O’Connor

THE SECOND TIME AROUND (1961) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Jack Cummings SCR Oscar Saul, Cecil Dan Hansen (novel “Star in the West” [1951] by Richard Emery Roberts) CAM Ellis W. Carter ED Betty Steinberg MUS Gerald Fried CAST Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse, Thelma Ritter, Ken Scott

CERVANTES, a.k.a. THE YOUNG REBEL (1969) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Alexander Salkind SCR Enrique Llovet (novel “A Man Called Cervantes” [1937] by Bruno Frank) CAM Edmond Richard ED Margarita de Ochoa MUS Jean Ledrut, Ángel Arteaga CAST Horst Buchholz, Gina Lollobrigida, José Ferrer, Louis Jourdan, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey

TV FILMS

THE LAST HURRAH (1977) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Mike Wise, Franklin R. Levy TELEPLAY Carroll O’Connor (novel “The Last Hurrah” [1956] by Edwin O’Connor) CAM Gerald Perry Finnerman ED Les Green, Bernard Balmuth MUS Peter Matz CAST Caroll O’Connor, Dana Andrews, Mariette Hartley, Burgess Meredith, Patrick O’Neal, Arthur Franz, Patrick Wayne

LADY OF THE HOUSE (1978) DIR Vincent Sherman, Ralph Nelson TELEPLAY Ron Koslow (autobiography “Lady of the House” by Sally Stanford) CAM Robert L. Morrison ED John A. Martinelli MUS Fred Karlin CAST Dyan Cannon, Armand Assante, Zohra Lampert, Susan Tyrrell, Colleen Camp, Kim Hamilton, Christopher Norris

WOMEN AT WEST POINT (1979) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Alan Sacks TELEPLAY Ann Marcus, Ellis Marcus (story by Juleen Compton) CAM Sol Negrin ED Grant Hoag MUS Charles Bernstein CAST Linda Purl, Leslie Ackerman, Jameson Parker, Andrew Stevens, Edward Edwards, Paul Gleason

BOGIE (1980) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Philip Barry Jr. TELEPLAY Daniel Taradash (book “Bogie” [1966] by Joe Hyams) CAM Harry J. May ED Patrick M. Ryan MUS Charles Bernstein CAST Kevin O’Connor, Kathryn Harrold, Ann Wedgeworth, Donald May, Alfred Ryder, Carol Vogel, Richard Dysart, Arthur Franz, Drew Barrymore

TROUBLE IN HIGHER TIMBER COUNTRY, a.k.a. THE YEAGERS (1980) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Robert A. Papazian TELEPLAY Jeb Rosebrook CAM Edward R. Plante ED O. Nicholas Brown MUS George Aliceson Tipton CAST Eddie Albert, Martin Kove, James Sloyan, Robin Dearden, Belinda Montgomery, Michael J. Fox, Kevin Brophy

SAVAGE IN THE ORIENT (1983) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Lionel E. Siegel TELEPLAY Wendel Mayes MUS Morton Stevens CAST Lew Ayres, Leif Erickson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Joe Penny, John Saxon, Heather McNair, Anthony Costello, Irene Yah-Ling Sun, Don Gordon Bell

TV MINISERIE

THE DREAM MERCHANTS (1980) DIR Vincent Sherman PROD Hugh Benson TELEPLAY Chester Krumholz, Richard De Roy (novel “The Dream Merchants” [1949] by Harold Robbins) CAM Gerald Perry Finnerman ED Donald Douglas, Richard Van Enger Jr. MUS George Duning CAST Mark Harmon, Morgan Fairchild, Eve Arden, Red Buttons, Robert Culp, Howard Duff, Carolyn Jones, José Ferrer, Fernando Lamas, Ray Milland, Vincent Gardenia