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Vincent Sherman was an American director, and actor, who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington , Nora Prentiss , and The Young Philadelphians . 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 . He directed three Joan Crawford movies The Damned Don't Cry! , Harriet Craig , and Goodbye, My Fancy . Sherman was born Abraham Orovitz, to Jewish parents. He was born and grew up in the small town of Vienna, Georgia, where his father was a dry-goods salesman. Not long after graduating from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, he became a professional actor. Sherman arrived in New York to sell a play and soon became an actor. He made his debut at the stage in Counselor at Law, which starred John Barrymore. He arrived in Hollywood during the early talkie years, where he appeared in William Wyler's 1933 film Counsellor at Law. In 1938, Sherman signed on at Warner Bros. as a director.
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John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplay for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen... , Moulin Rouge , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King . During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston, to Oscar wins in different films. Huston was known to direct with the vision of an artist, having studied and worked as a fine art painter in Paris in his early years. He continued to explore the visual aspects of his films throughout his career: sketching each scene on paper beforehand, then carefully framing his characters during the shooting. In addition, while most directors rely on post-production editing to shape their final work, Huston instead created his films while they were being shot, making his films both more economical and more cerebral, with little editing needed.
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