Victor L. Schertzinger (born April 8, 1888 in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania; † October 26, 1941 in Hollywood, California) was a U.S. film composer, director, screenwriter and film producer.
Victor Schertzinger studied music at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and at the University of Brussels in Belgium. He first toured the world as a concert violinist before distinguishing himself as a conductor for symphony orchestras. In 1916, he first came into contact with the film world when he was commissioned to provide the musical background for Thomas H. Ince's film ''Civilization''. Shortly thereafter, he worked as director of a series of films featuring the then-popular performer Charles Ray, which Ince produced. With the advent of talkies, Scherzinger increasingly focused on his work as a composer. He wrote several musical numbers for 1929's ''Love Parade'' and 1930's ''Paramount on Parade'', among others.
His greatest financial and artistic success was ''One Night of Love'' with Grace Moore in 1934. Scherzinger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director at the 1935 Academy Awards. The following year he made ''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 in the successful ''Road to Series'' with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, among others, before dying in 1941 at age 51. He found his final resting place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.
Note: Translated from a German version of Wikipedia into English.
