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- Birth nameJames Vincent Sheean
- 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).
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