Born Hugo Louis Sherwin Göerlitz
A son of impresario Hugo Heinrich Ludwig Göerlitz of Birkenfeld, Germany, and Frances Amy Lillian Sherwin, the renowned opera singer.
Louis Sherwin married actress Maude Fealy on 15 July 1907 in Denver, Colorado. The couple divorced on 25 September 1909.
Louis then married Ina Ann Winsor, on 20 January 1910 at Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey. They had three children; Sylvia, Maria (Daphne), and William.
His third wife was the former Jeanette Berry of Babylon, New York, and they had one adopted son; Peter Ritchie Sherwin.
He was educated at the Charterhouse boarding school in Goldaming, Surrey, and by private tutors in Germany and France as his mother toured and performed. He was fluent in four languages. He immigrated to the United States on a sponsorship in 1902, having already dropped his German first and surname, and remained Louis Sherwin the rest of his personal and professional life. Mr. Sherwin began his writing career working at the Desert News in Salt Lake City, The Los Angeles Times, the Denver Republican, and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. Moving to New York City in 1909, he became a noted, and respected staff writer for The New York Evening Globe as outspoken and opionated drama, performing arts, and film critic from 1910 until 1918. He occasionally wrote features for Vanity Fair from 1913 until 1918. In October 1918, Mr. Sherwin was hired as press secretary by Samuel Goldwyn; founder of Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in Hollywood. There he acted as publicity writer, and wrote scenarios and screen treatments for films. He maintained a residence at the legendary Hollywood Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Towards the end of 1922, Louis was engaged to silent screen actress Mary Miles Minter, following the scandalous murder of her late lover, director William Desmond Taylor. Louis' estranged wife; Ann Winsor Sherwin, refused to consent to a divorce, preventing their marriage. By 1927, Mr. Sherwin had an office at 18 Grove Street, New York City.
Louis Sherwin is documented as residing in Robbinsville, New Jersey in 1935, and living at Essex Street, Red Bank, New Jersey in 1940, his occupation as a writer for radio. Louis was employed by NBC radio personality, and news host Lowell Thomas at Rockefeller Center, New York City, as his research consultant, script writer, and editor. Mr. Sherwin was New York proclamations officer for 28 years, including speechwriter for New York Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey. Upon his retirement in 1971, he served as consultant to New York Governor's Nelson Rockefeller, and Hugh Carey.
Mr. Sherwin died at the Albany Medical Center Hospital of aspiration pneumonia.
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Biographical sketch © October 2016 by This Old Scarecrow, updates pending
A son of impresario Hugo Heinrich Ludwig Göerlitz of Birkenfeld, Germany, and Frances Amy Lillian Sherwin, the renowned opera singer.
Louis Sherwin married actress Maude Fealy on 15 July 1907 in Denver, Colorado. The couple divorced on 25 September 1909.
Louis then married Ina Ann Winsor, on 20 January 1910 at Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey. They had three children; Sylvia, Maria (Daphne), and William.
His third wife was the former Jeanette Berry of Babylon, New York, and they had one adopted son; Peter Ritchie Sherwin.
He was educated at the Charterhouse boarding school in Goldaming, Surrey, and by private tutors in Germany and France as his mother toured and performed. He was fluent in four languages. He immigrated to the United States on a sponsorship in 1902, having already dropped his German first and surname, and remained Louis Sherwin the rest of his personal and professional life. Mr. Sherwin began his writing career working at the Desert News in Salt Lake City, The Los Angeles Times, the Denver Republican, and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. Moving to New York City in 1909, he became a noted, and respected staff writer for The New York Evening Globe as outspoken and opionated drama, performing arts, and film critic from 1910 until 1918. He occasionally wrote features for Vanity Fair from 1913 until 1918. In October 1918, Mr. Sherwin was hired as press secretary by Samuel Goldwyn; founder of Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in Hollywood. There he acted as publicity writer, and wrote scenarios and screen treatments for films. He maintained a residence at the legendary Hollywood Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Towards the end of 1922, Louis was engaged to silent screen actress Mary Miles Minter, following the scandalous murder of her late lover, director William Desmond Taylor. Louis' estranged wife; Ann Winsor Sherwin, refused to consent to a divorce, preventing their marriage. By 1927, Mr. Sherwin had an office at 18 Grove Street, New York City.
Louis Sherwin is documented as residing in Robbinsville, New Jersey in 1935, and living at Essex Street, Red Bank, New Jersey in 1940, his occupation as a writer for radio. Louis was employed by NBC radio personality, and news host Lowell Thomas at Rockefeller Center, New York City, as his research consultant, script writer, and editor. Mr. Sherwin was New York proclamations officer for 28 years, including speechwriter for New York Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey. Upon his retirement in 1971, he served as consultant to New York Governor's Nelson Rockefeller, and Hugh Carey.
Mr. Sherwin died at the Albany Medical Center Hospital of aspiration pneumonia.
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Biographical sketch © October 2016 by This Old Scarecrow, updates pending
Born Hugo Louis Sherwin Göerlitz
A son of impresario Hugo Heinrich Ludwig Göerlitz of Birkenfeld, Germany, and Frances Amy Lillian Sherwin, the renowned opera singer.
Louis Sherwin married actress Maude Fealy on 15 July 1907 in Denver, Colorado. The couple divorced on 25 September 1909.
Louis then married Ina Ann Winsor, on 20 January 1910 at Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey. They had three children; Sylvia, Maria (Daphne), and William.
His third wife was the former Jeanette Berry of Babylon, New York, and they had one adopted son; Peter Ritchie Sherwin.
He was educated at the Charterhouse boarding school in Goldaming, Surrey, and by private tutors in Germany and France as his mother toured and performed. He was fluent in four languages. He immigrated to the United States on a sponsorship in 1902, having already dropped his German first and surname, and remained Louis Sherwin the rest of his personal and professional life. Mr. Sherwin began his writing career working at the Desert News in Salt Lake City, The Los Angeles Times, the Denver Republican, and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. Moving to New York City in 1909, he became a noted, and respected staff writer for The New York Evening Globe as outspoken and opionated drama, performing arts, and film critic from 1910 until 1918. He occasionally wrote features for Vanity Fair from 1913 until 1918. In October 1918, Mr. Sherwin was hired as press secretary by Samuel Goldwyn; founder of Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in Hollywood. There he acted as publicity writer, and wrote scenarios and screen treatments for films. He maintained a residence at the legendary Hollywood Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Towards the end of 1922, Louis was engaged to silent screen actress Mary Miles Minter, following the scandalous murder of her late lover, director William Desmond Taylor. Louis' estranged wife; Ann Winsor Sherwin, refused to consent to a divorce, preventing their marriage. By 1927, Mr. Sherwin had an office at 18 Grove Street, New York City.
Louis Sherwin is documented as residing in Robbinsville, New Jersey in 1935, and living at Essex Street, Red Bank, New Jersey in 1940, his occupation as a writer for radio. Louis was employed by NBC radio personality, and news host Lowell Thomas at Rockefeller Center, New York City, as his research consultant, script writer, and editor. Mr. Sherwin was New York proclamations officer for 28 years, including speechwriter for New York Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey. Upon his retirement in 1971, he served as consultant to New York Governor's Nelson Rockefeller, and Hugh Carey.
Mr. Sherwin died at the Albany Medical Center Hospital of aspiration pneumonia.
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Biographical sketch © October 2016 by This Old Scarecrow, updates pending
A son of impresario Hugo Heinrich Ludwig Göerlitz of Birkenfeld, Germany, and Frances Amy Lillian Sherwin, the renowned opera singer.
Louis Sherwin married actress Maude Fealy on 15 July 1907 in Denver, Colorado. The couple divorced on 25 September 1909.
Louis then married Ina Ann Winsor, on 20 January 1910 at Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey. They had three children; Sylvia, Maria (Daphne), and William.
His third wife was the former Jeanette Berry of Babylon, New York, and they had one adopted son; Peter Ritchie Sherwin.
He was educated at the Charterhouse boarding school in Goldaming, Surrey, and by private tutors in Germany and France as his mother toured and performed. He was fluent in four languages. He immigrated to the United States on a sponsorship in 1902, having already dropped his German first and surname, and remained Louis Sherwin the rest of his personal and professional life. Mr. Sherwin began his writing career working at the Desert News in Salt Lake City, The Los Angeles Times, the Denver Republican, and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. Moving to New York City in 1909, he became a noted, and respected staff writer for The New York Evening Globe as outspoken and opionated drama, performing arts, and film critic from 1910 until 1918. He occasionally wrote features for Vanity Fair from 1913 until 1918. In October 1918, Mr. Sherwin was hired as press secretary by Samuel Goldwyn; founder of Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in Hollywood. There he acted as publicity writer, and wrote scenarios and screen treatments for films. He maintained a residence at the legendary Hollywood Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Towards the end of 1922, Louis was engaged to silent screen actress Mary Miles Minter, following the scandalous murder of her late lover, director William Desmond Taylor. Louis' estranged wife; Ann Winsor Sherwin, refused to consent to a divorce, preventing their marriage. By 1927, Mr. Sherwin had an office at 18 Grove Street, New York City.
Louis Sherwin is documented as residing in Robbinsville, New Jersey in 1935, and living at Essex Street, Red Bank, New Jersey in 1940, his occupation as a writer for radio. Louis was employed by NBC radio personality, and news host Lowell Thomas at Rockefeller Center, New York City, as his research consultant, script writer, and editor. Mr. Sherwin was New York proclamations officer for 28 years, including speechwriter for New York Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey. Upon his retirement in 1971, he served as consultant to New York Governor's Nelson Rockefeller, and Hugh Carey.
Mr. Sherwin died at the Albany Medical Center Hospital of aspiration pneumonia.
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Biographical sketch © October 2016 by This Old Scarecrow, updates pending
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