Career Highlights: Gentleman Jim, Cleopatra, Broadway Melody of 1940
First Major Screen Credit: Spring Fever (1927)
Biography
After his stage comedy Life in the Rough was filmed in 1930, New York playwright Vincent Lawrence made periodic trips to Hollywood, usually stopping at either MGM or Paramount. Vincent Lawrence's movie output included DeMille's "kidding on the square" historical epic Cleopatra (1934), the Clark Gable vehicles Test Pilot (1938) and Adventure (1945), Errol Flynn's boisterous Jim Corbett biopic Gentleman Jim (1942) and the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn soap opera Sea of Grass (1948). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide