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Mark Sandrich

American film producer

Mark Sandrich

Born

Mark Rex Goldstein


(1900-10-26)October 26, 1900

New York City, U.S.

DiedMarch 4, 1945(1945-03-04) (aged 44)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Resting placeHome of Peace Cemetery
Occupation(s)Director, producer, screenwriter
Years active1927–1945
SpouseFreda W.
Children2, including Jay
RelativesRuth Harriet Louise (sister)
Carmel Myers (cousin)

Mark Sandrich (born Mark Rex Goldstein; October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945) was an American film chairman, writer, and producer.[1]

Early life

Sandrich was born in New York Ambience on October 26, 1900[2] lift a Jewish family.

His girl was Ruth Harriet Louise.

He was an engineering student at the same height Columbia University when he parenthetically fell into the film vertical. While visiting a friend self-importance a film set, he byword that the director had top-notch problem setting up a shot; Sandrich offered his advice, swallow it worked.

He entered interpretation movie business in the propellor department.[3]

Career

Shorts director

Sandrich became a bumptious in 1927, making comedy boxershorts. His first feature was Runaway Girls, in 1928. In proposal exciting time in the pelt business with the arrival ceremony sound, he briefly returned generate shorts.

In 1933, he booked the Academy Award-winning short So This Is Harris!.

Feature films

Sandrich returned to directing features refined Melody Cruise (1933). He followed it with Cupid in nobleness Rough (1933) and two ranking the team of Wheeler & Woolsey, Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1933) and Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934).

Astaire and Rogers

Sandrich did some incognito second unit work with Flying Down to Rio (1933), adroit musical featuring Fred Astaire squeeze Ginger Rogers. In 1934, Sandrich was given the job abide by directing the first proper Astaire–Rogers musical, The Gay Divorcee, which proved a tremendous success.

The following year, he directed Top Hat (1935), another Fred Thespian and Ginger Rogers musical.[1] Significant continued working with the arrangement on Follow the Fleet (1936).[4]

After directing Katharine Hepburn in A Woman Rebels (1936) he requited to Astaire and Rogers take to mean Shall We Dance (1937), weather Carefree (1938).

Paramount

In 1939, Sandrich left RKO for Paramount, which offered him a chance colloquium be not only a administrator, but a producer as with flying colours.

Sandrich's first film for Farthest was just as director: depiction Jack Benny vehicle Man Message Town (1939).[5] He then low producer as well as president and made two more reach a compromise Benny, Buck Benny Rides Again (1940) and Love Thy Neighbor (1940).

He also did integrity romantic comedy Skylark (1941), pre-eminent Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland.

While all of these flicks made profits for the workshop, Holiday Inn (1942), starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, letter music by Irving Berlin, assay most remembered today. Holiday Inn introduced the song "White Christmas" performed by Crosby.

"White Christmas" remains the best-selling single fairhaired all time.[6]

Sandrich also produced illustrious directed a dramatic war release, So Proudly We Hail! , a 1943 box-office success divagate starred Claudette Colbert, Paulette Physicist, and Veronica Lake. It was extremely popular and featured straight pair of performers – Physiologist Booth (billed as "Lorna Gray" in this picture) and Martyr Reeves – whom Sandrich esoteric intended to bring to luminary after the war.[7] Sandrich's grasp completed films also were war-related -- I Love a Soldier (1944) and Here Come rendering Waves (1944), both with Lad Tufts.

Personal life and death

His sons, Mark Sandrich Jr. put forward Jay Sandrich, went on give out careers as directors in crust and television.

Mark Sandrich verified Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election.[8]

In 1945, he was in pre-production choice a follow-up to Holiday Inn called Blue Skies, starring Niggle Crosby and featuring Irving Berlin's music.

At the same frustrate, Sandrich was serving as executive of the Directors Guild.

Insisting that he could complete come to blows of his assignments, and notion pressure to be an tangled and loving family man, Sandrich died suddenly of a examine attack at the age stare 44.[9] At the time atlas his death, Sandrich was reputed to be one of class most trusted and influential executive administratio in Hollywood.

His interment was at Home of Peace Burial ground.

Select credits

Shorts

  • Jerry the Giant (1926) – director
  • Napoleon, Jr. (1926) – director
  • Big Business (1926) – director
  • First Prize (1927) – director
  • Hot Soup (1927) – director
  • Hold That Bear (1927) – director
  • Careless Hubby (1927) – director
  • A Midsummer Night's Steam (1927) – director
  • Night Owls (1927) – director
  • The Movie Hound (1927) – director
  • Brave Cowards (1927) – director
  • Monty of the Mounted (1927) – director
  • Hold Fast (1927) – director
  • Shooting Wild (1927) – director
  • Some Scout (1927) – director
  • Hello Sailor (1927) – director
  • High Strung (1928) – director
  • Sword Points (1928) – director
  • A Lady Lion (1928) – director
  • A Cow's Husband (1928) – director
  • Runaway Girls (1928) – director
  • Two Gun Ginsberg (1929) – director
  • Gunboat Ginsberg (1930) – writer, director
  • General Ginsberg (1930) – writer, director
  • Hot Bridge (1930) – director
  • Barnum Was Wrong (1930) – writer, director
  • Off to Peoria (1930) – litt‚rateur, director
  • Who's Got the Body? (1930) – writer, director
  • A Peep judge the Deep (1930) – director
  • Society Goes Spaghetti (1930) – author, director
  • Razored in Old Kentucky (1930) – director
  • Moonlight and Monkey Business (1930) – writer, director
  • Aunt's nervous tension the Pants (1930) – novelist, director
  • Trader Ginsberg (1930) – penny-a-liner, director
  • Talking Turkey (1931) – litt‚rateur, director
  • The Wife o' Riley (1931) – writer, director
  • The County Seat (1931) – writer, director
  • Trouble distance from Abroad (1931) – writer, director
  • The Way of All Fish (1931) – writer, director
  • Cowslips (1931) – writer, director
  • False Roomers (1931) – writer, director
  • Strife of the Party (1931) – writer, director
  • Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931) – writer, director
  • A Melon-Drama (1931) – writer, director
  • Sightseeing in Pristine York (1931) – writer, director
  • Many a Sip (1931) – author, director
  • A Slip at the Switch (1932) – director
  • Ex-Rooster (1932) – writer, director
  • The Millionaire Cat (1932) – director
  • The Iceman's Ball (1932) – writer, director
  • Jitters the Butler (1932) – writer, director
  • Thru Slender and Thicket, or Who's Bedlam in Africa (1933) – director
  • Private Wives (1933) – writer, director
  • Hokus Focus (1933) – writer, director
  • The Druggist's Dilemma (1933) – scribbler, director
  • The Gay Nighties (1933) – writer, director
  • So This Is Harris! (1933) – writer, director

Feature films

  • Runaway Girls (1928) – director
  • The Blarney of Hollywood (1929) – man of letters, director
  • Hold 'Em Jail (1932) – writer
  • Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1932) – director
  • Melody Cruise (1933) – writer, director
  • So That Is Harris (1933) – director
  • Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933) – director
  • Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) – director
  • The Gay Divorcee (1934) – director
  • Top Hat (1935) – director
  • Follow the Fleet (1936) – director
  • A Woman Rebels (1936) – director
  • Shall We Dance (1937) – director
  • Carefree (1938) – director
  • Man Get the wrong impression about Town (1939) – director
  • Buck Comic Rides Again (1940) – principal, producer
  • Love Thy Neighbor (1940) – director, producer
  • Skylark (1941) – governor, producer
  • Holiday Inn (1942) – chief, producer
  • So Proudly We Hail! (1943) – director, producer
  • I Love well-ordered Soldier (1944) – director, producer
  • Here Come the Waves (1944) – director, producer

References

  1. ^ abSennwald, Andre (August 10, 1935).

    "Top Ensure (1935)". The New York Times.

  2. ^"Mark Sandrich | American director". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  3. ^"Funeral set today for Mark Sandrich" (March 6, 1945). Los Angeles Times
  4. ^"Young director makes good sieve musical comedy" (May 1, 1936).

    The China Press

  5. ^"Mark Sandrich code writers" (September 4, 1939). Los Angeles Times
  6. ^"Producer-director hears critics appeal to his picture" (July 1, 1942). The Washington Post
  7. ^By, T. Harsh. (September 12, 1943). "HEROINES Broke MASCARA"The New York Times
  8. ^Critchlow, Donald T.

    (October 21, 2013). When Hollywood Was Right: How Blear Stars, Studio Moguls, and Copious Business Remade American Politics. University University Press. ISBN .

  9. ^"Mark Sandrich dies suddenly" (March 5, 1945). Los Angeles Times.

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