Biography

Vincent Sheean was born on December 5, 1899 in Pana, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Crisis (1939) and The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957). He died on March 16, 1975 in Arola, Piedmont, Italy.

Film producer Walter Wanger bought the rights to Sheean's "Personal History" (New York: Doubleday, 1935) for $10,000 in 1935. Wanger then went through 16 writers and five years before he could get the script as he wanted -- the film version of Sheean's book was finally released as Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" (1940).