Mark Sandrich

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mark Sandrich (birth name: Mark Rex Goldstein) (October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945) was a Jewish American film director, writer and producer. One of the most gifted and least heralded directors of the 1930s and early 1940s, Sandrich was an engineering student at Columbia University when he started the movie business by accident. When visiting a friend on a film set, he saw that the director had a problem in setting up a shot; Sandrich offered his advice. It worked. He then entered into the movies in the prop department, and became a director specializing in several comedy shorts in 1927. He then made his first feature the next year, but returned to shorts after the sound arrival. In 1933 he directed the Academy Award-winning short, So This Is Harris!. He later returned to feature films, most notably comedies, starring the team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Hips, Hips, Hooray!. In 1934, Sandrich soon got his first directing assignment on the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musical The Gay Divorcee, which proved a success. The following year, he directed what is widely regarded as the best movie ever made by the legendary dance team, Top Hat…

Directed

1. Top Hat (1935) — Director
2. Holiday Inn (1942) — Director
3. The Gay Divorcee (1934) — Director
4. Shall We Dance (1937) — Director
5. Follow the Fleet (1936) — Director
6. Carefree (1938) — Director
7. So Proudly We Hail (1943) — Director
8. A Woman Rebels (1936) — Director
9. So This Is Harris! (1933) — Director
10. Here Come the Waves (1944) — Director
11. Melody Cruise (1933) — Director
12. Skylark (1941) — Director
13. Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) — Director
14. Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934) — Director
15. Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931) — Director
16. Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933) — Director
17. Man About Town (1939) — Director
18. The Talk of Hollywood (1929) — Director
19. The Gay Nighties (1933) — Director
20. I Love a Soldier (1944) — Director
21. The Iceman's Ball (1932) — Director
22. Love Thy Neighbor (1940) — Director
23. Buck Benny Rides Again (1940) — Director
24. Sword Points (1928) — Director
25. Jitters the Butler (1932) — Director
26. A Lady Lion (1928) — Director
27. Hello Sailor (1927) — Director
28. The Druggist's Dilemma (1933) — Director
29. General Ginsberg (1930) — Director
30. The Movie Hound (1927) — Director
31. Monty of the Mounted (1927) — Director
32. False Roomers (1931) — Director
33. Napoleon, Jr. (1926) — Director
34. Runaway Girls (1928) — Director
35. The Millionaire Cat (1932) — Director
36. A Slip at the Switch (1932) — Director
37. Moonlight and Monkey Business (1930) — Director
38. Sight Seeing in New York (1931) — Director
39. Jerry the Giant (1926) — Director
40. A Midsummer Night's Steam (1927) — Director