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___MASK16___ Sherman ( July 16 , 1906  June 18 , 2006 ) was an American director and actor who worked in Hollywood . His movies include " Mr . Skeffington " ( 1944 ), " Nora Prentiss " ( 1947 ), and " The Young Philadelphians " ( 1959 ). Nora Prentiss is a 1947 black - and - white drama film noir directed by ___MASK16___ Sherman , and starring Ann Sheridan , Kent Smith , Bruce Bennett and Robert Alda . Sherman also directed leading lady Sheridan in another 1947 film noir , " The Unfaithful ". The cinematography is by cinematographer ___MASK79___ , and the music was composed by Franz Waxman . Edward Montgomery " Monty " Clift ( October 17 , 1920July 23 , 1966 ) was an American film and stage actor . " The New York Times " obituary of Clift noted his portrayal of " moody , sensitive young men ". He is best remembered for roles in " Red River " ( 1948 ), " The Heiress " ( 1949 ), ___MASK8___ ' s " A Place in the Sun " ( 1951 ), as a Catholic priest in Alfred Hitchcock ' s " I Confess " ( 1952 ), a soldier in Fred Zinnemann ' s " From Here to Eternity " ( 1953 ) and Edward Dmytryk ' s " The Young Lions " ( 1958 ), and as a mentally challenged , sterilized concentration camp survivor in Stanley Kramer ' s " Judgment at Nuremberg " ( 1961 ). He received four Academy Award nominations during his career : three for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor . Irwin Shaw ( February 27 , 1913  May 16 , 1984 ) was an American playwright , screenwriter , novelist , and short - story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies . He is best known for two of his novels : " The Young Lions " ( 1948 ), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II , made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift , and " Rich Man , Poor Man " ( 1970 ), about the fate of three siblings after World War II , that was made into a popular miniseries starring Nick Nolte . Though Shaw ' s work received widespread critical acclaim , the success of his commercial fiction ultimately diminished his literary reputation . Mr . Skeffington is a 1944 American drama film directed by ___MASK16___ Sherman , based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth von Arnim . The Hard Way is a 1943 Warner Bros . musical drama film directed by ___MASK16___ Sherman . The film was based on a story by Irwin Shaw which was reportedly based on Ginger Rogers ' relationship with her first husband , Jack Pepper ( whom she married in 1928 at age 17 ) and her own mother , Lela . The Young Philadelphians is a 1959 drama film starring Paul Newman , Barbara Rush , Robert Vaughn and Alexis Smith , and directed by ___MASK16___ Sherman . The film is based on the 1956 novel , " The Philadelphian ", by Richard P . Powell .