Vincent Sherman
Director · 1906 – 2006 · Vienna, Georgia, USA
Vincent Sherman (July 16, 1906 – June 18, 2006) was an American director, and actor, who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington (1944), Nora Prentiss (1947), and The Young Philadelphians (1959). He began his career as an actor on Broadway and later films. He directed B-movies for Warner Bros. before moving up to A-pictures. He was a good friend of actor Errol Flynn, whom he directed in Adventures of Don Juan (1949). He directed three Joan Crawford movies The Damned Don't Cry! (1950), Harriet Craig (1950), and Goodbye, My Fancy (1951). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vincent Sherman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie7.0MusicDocumentaryBroadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · 7 votes
Movie8.3DocumentaryNoted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles.
Forever Hollywood
1999 · 3 votes
Movie6.6DocumentaryHistoryDaniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004 · 14 votes
Movie6.6DocumentaryTV MovieCombining unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives with original interviews, this documentary reveals a startling portrait of one of Hollywood's most gifted and enigmatic stars.
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006 · 15 votes
Movie8.5DocumentaryJack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008 · 12 votes
Movie7.7DocumentaryTV MovieA documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 · 6 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryHistoryThe story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba
Movie8.3DocumentaryTV MovieBiography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.
Rita
2003 · 3 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryTV MovieIn this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest." caricature she has become. Friends, fellow actors, directors, and others reminisce about their association with her, and numerous film clips show off her talent from her start in silents to bad science fiction/horror movies at the end of her career.
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002 · 11 votes
Movie5.6ThrillerCrimeAn actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
The Crime of Helen Stanley
1934 · 8 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryRita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990 · 3 votes
Movie9.0ActionAdventureA kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.
Speed Wings
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DocumentaryTV MovieGlamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996 · 2 votes
Movie10.0CrimeDramaAs a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
Hell Bent for Love
1934 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryNarrated by actor Christopher Lee, this documentary details the life of timeless Hollywood adventure hero and sex symbol Errol Flynn, who swung his way into the hearts of the world's moviegoers with a sword and an errant grin. Interviews with friends and family balance a collection of clips from classic films such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Captain Blood, revealing the man behind the movie star.
Movie6.7DocumentaryAn insider's account of Jack Warner, a founding father of the American film industry. This feature length documentary provides the rags to riches story of the man whose studio - Warner Bros - created many of Hollywood's most classic films. Includes extensive interviews with family members and friends, film clips, rare home movies and unique location footage.
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
1993 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryTV MovieDocumentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril.
Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
1996 · 2 votes
Movie8.0MysteryActionInspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Girl in Danger
1934 · 2 votes
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Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt tries to show the background and developments and speaks, among others, with directors such as Richard Fleischer and Robert Wise as well as with "femme fatale" actresses. Filmmakers of the following generations explain how the style and themes of noir continue to shape cinema today.
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004 · 1 votes
Movie4.3CrimeMysteryPolice Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.
One Is Guilty
1934 · 4 votes
Movie6.5DramaA successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
Counsellor at Law
1933 · 29 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe Joan Crawford crime thriller, The Damned Don't Cry (1950), is the topic of discussion for various interviewees.
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Short documentary about the "woman's picture" at Warner Brothers.
Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture
2006 · 1 votes