Victor Schertzinger

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Victor Schertzinger

Victor L. Schertzinger (born April 8, 1890 in Mahanoy City , Pennsylvania , † October 26, 1941 in Hollywood , California ) was an American film composer , director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Victor Schertzinger studied music at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island and at the University of Brussels in Belgium . He initially toured the world as a concert violinist before making his mark as a conductor for a symphony orchestra . He first came into contact with the film world in 1916 when he was commissioned by Thomas H. Ince to provide the background music for the film Civilization . Shortly thereafter, he was directing a film series with the then popular actor Charles Ray , which Ince produced. With the introduction of the sound film , Scherzinger increasingly concentrated on his work as a composer. Among other things, he wrote some musical numbers for Love Parade from 1929 and Paramount on Parade from 1930.

His greatest financial and artistic success was One Night of Love with Grace Moore in 1934 . Scherzinger received a nomination for the Oscar for best director at the 1935 Academy Awards . The following year he shot Love Me Forever with Moore . For the rest of the decade, Scherzinger worked mainly for Paramount Pictures . In the early 1940s he made two films from the successful Road to series with Bob Hope , Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour before he died in 1941 at the age of 51. His final resting place was in Forrest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale .

Filmography (selection)

Director

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