American composer/director Victor Schertzinger was trained for a musical career at Brown University and the University of Brussels. He toured the world as a concert violinist, then distinguished himself as a symphony conductor. His first brush with the film world came when he was commissioned to compose the orchestral accompaniment for the Thomas Ince film Civilization (1916). Still under the employ of Ince, Schertzinger became principal director of the popular Charles Ray films, establishing a rapport with the mercurial Ray that few of the star's collaborators would ever achieve. He remained a top director during the silent era, but when talkies came Schertzinger returned to composing, turning out hit tunes for such early talkie musicals as The Love Parade (1929) and Paramount on Parade (1930). Most closely associated with Paramount studios, Schertzinger freelanced during the '30s, directing such diverse projects as the independently produced Jimmy Cagney musical Something to Sing About (1937) and the British-filmed The Mikado (1939). At the time of Victor Schertzinger's sudden death in 1941, he was the principal director of the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope Road pictures, in which he wisely gave the stars the go-ahead to adlib to their heart's content while he concentrated on keeping the story moving.
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Plaza Suite
Featured Music |
1971 | |||
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The Fleet's In
Director, Songwriter |
1942 | |||
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Birth of the Blues
Director |
1941 | |||
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Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Director |
1941 | |||
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Road to Zanzibar
Director |
1941 | |||
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Rhythm on the River
Composer (Music Score), Director |
1940 | |||
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Road to Singapore
Director |
1940 | |||
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The Mikado
Director |
1939 | |||
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Something to Sing About
Composer (Music Score), Director |
1936 | |||
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The Music Goes 'round
Composer (Music Score), Director |
1936 | |||
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Let's Live Tonight
Director |
1935 | |||
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Love Me Forever
Director |
1935 | |||
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Beloved
Composer (Music Score), Director |
1934 | |||
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One Night of Love
Director |
1934 | |||
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Cocktail Hour
Director, Songwriter |
1933 | |||
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My Woman
Composer (Music Score), Director |
1933 | |||
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The Constant Woman
Director |
1933 | |||
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Girl of the Rio
Songwriter |
1932 | |||
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Strange Justice
Composer (Music Score), Director |
1932 | |||
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Uptown New York
Director |
1932 | |||
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Caught Plastered
Composer (Music Score), Songwriter |
1931 | |||
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Friends and Lovers
Composer (Music Score), Director |
1931 | |||
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The Woman Between
Director, Songwriter |
1931 | |||
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Heads Up
Director |
1930 | |||
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Paramount on Parade
Director |
1930 | |||
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Safety in Numbers
Director |
1930 | |||
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The Laughing Lady
Director |
1930 | |||
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Fashions in Love
Director |
1929 | |||
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Nothing But the Truth
Director |
1929 | |||
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Redskin
Director |
1929 | |||
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The Love Parade
Composer (Music Score) |
1929 | |||
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The Wheel of Life
Director |
1929 | |||
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Forgotten Faces
Director |
1928 | |||
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The Showdown
Director |
1928 | |||
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Heart of Salome
Director |
1927 | |||
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Secret Studio
Director |
1927 | |||
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Stage Madness
Director |
1927 | |||
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Lily
Director |
1926 | |||
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Siberia
Director |
1926 | |||
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The Return of Peter Grimm
Director |
1926 | |||
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Frivolous Sal
Director |
1925 | |||
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Golden Strain
Director |
1925 | |||
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Man and Maid
Director |
1925 | |||
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Thunder Mountain
Director |
1925 | |||
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Boy of Flanders
Director |
1924 | |||
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Bread
Director |
1924 | |||
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Chastity
Director |
1923 | |||
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Dollar Devils
Director |
1923 | |||
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Long Live the King
Director |
1923 | |||
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Man Next Door
Director |
1923 | |||
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Refuge
Director |
1923 | |||
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The Lonely Road
Director |
1923 | |||
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The Man Life Passed By
Director, Screenwriter |
1923 | |||
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The Scarlet Lily
Director |
1923 | |||
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Head over Heels
Director |
1922 | |||
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Scandalous Tongues
Director |
1922 | |||
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The Kingdom Within
Director |
1922 | |||
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Beating the Game
Director |
1921 | |||
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Concert
Director |
1921 | |||
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Made in Heaven
Director |
1921 | |||
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What Happened to Rosa?
Director |
1921 | |||
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Extravagance
Director |
1919 | |||
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Homebreaker
Director |
1919 | |||
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Lady of Red Butte
Director |
1919 | |||
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Other Men's Wives
Director |
1919 | |||
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Peace of Roaring River
Director |
1919 | |||
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Sheriff's Son
Director |
1919 | |||
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A Nine O'Clock Town
Director |
1918 | |||
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Playing the Game
Director |
1918 | |||
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Quicksands
Director |
1918 | |||
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String Beans
Director |
1918 | |||
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The Family Skeleton
Director |
1918 | |||
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Millionaire Vagrant
Director |
1917 | |||
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Sudden Jim
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Clodhopper
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Pinch Hitter
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Son of his Father
Director |
1917 | |||
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Civilization
Composer (Music Score) |
1916 |