Mark Sandrich
Nacimiento : 1901-10-26, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1945-03-04
Historia
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, which excelled in every department, including music and choreography. It was all pulled together seamlessly by Sandrich. After that, several other movies such as Follow the Fleet, Shall We Dance, and Carefree followed. In 1940, Sandrich left RKO for Paramount, which offered him a chance to be not only a director but as well as a producer. He made other several successful films in this capacity, including two with Jack Benny, Buck Benny Rides Again and Love Thy Neighbor, both released in 1940, and the romantic comedy Skylark, starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland. However, while all these were hits, it was Holiday Inn in 1942 starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, with music by Irving Berlin that showed Sandrich at his best. The musical/comedy actually started on the eve of America's entry into World War II. It featured sufficient serious overtones to capture the mood of the time, and showed Crosby and Astaire to brilliant advantage as performers who are rivals for the same woman; and it introduced the song "White Christmas", highlighted by the crooner Crosby which remained the biggest selling popular song in history for fifty-two years. So Proudly We Hail! was a Sandrich-produced and directed adaptation of the hit play. It was extremely popular and successful, and featured a pair of performers – Adrian Booth and George Reeves -- whom Sandrich had intended to bring to stardom after the war. However, it wasn't to be.
In 1945, while in pre-production on a follow up to Holiday Inn called Blue Skies, starring Bing Crosby and featuring Irving Berlin's music, and serving as president of the Directors Guild, Sandrich died suddenly, of heart failure. He was at this time one of the most trusted and influential directors in Hollywood, respected by his colleagues and the studio management. His sons Mark Sandrich Jr. and Jay Sandrich have gone onto successful careers as directors. His interment was located at Home of Peace Cemetery.
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Crosby canta (entre otras, el clásico "White Christmas"), Astaire baila y los dos se disputan los favores de Virginia Dale en esta comedia musical creada por Irving Berlin.
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As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.
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Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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Ambientado en Londres, ilustra los problemas profesionales y sentimentales de un actor que pretende triunfar en la capital británica.
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Pamela es una mujer inglesa de finales del siglo XIX que posee una ideas muy avanzadas por su época. Entre otras cosas, no piensa casarse, sino que desea desarrollarse como persona. Después de muchas dificultades para encontrar trabajo, finalmente encuentra un puesto en la típica revista de mujeres sobre la cocina y los trabajos del hogar. Cuando el editor se enferma, Pamela empieza a tratar temas como la igualdad, la atención a la infancia, los cuidados médicos, y la búsqueda de empleo. Pronto se ve convertida en líder de un movimiento por estos temas, y además se deberá enfrentar a la difícil tarea de criar a un hijo sola, un escándolo para la sociedad... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Jerry Travers, un astro de la comedia musical americana, llega a Londres y se instala en la habitación del productor de su obra, Horace Hardwick. El azar le hace conocer a la bella modelo Dale Tremont, que se aloja en la habitación de abajo. Ella le toma, erróneamente, por Hardwick y, al enterarse que está casado (en realidad, y aunque no lo sabe, con una amiga suya, Madge), le rechaza y viaja con su jefe, el modisto Alberto Beddini, a Venecia, donde, por despecho, se casará con él.
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Musical de la RKO que tuvo un gran éxito de público, además de ser nominada al Oscar a la mejor película. Guy Holden, un célebre bailarín americano, está de viaje por Europa en compañía de su amigo y abogado Egbert. Camino de Inglaterra, un incidente en la aduana francesa le hace conocer a Mimi Glossop, que viaja con su tía. En Londres vuelve a tener un encuentro casual con ella. Guy queda profundamente enamorado de Mimi, sin saber que se trata de una mujer casada, en proceso de divorcio, cuyos trámites está llevando el propio Egbert. Guy, Egbert, Mimi y su tía volverán a coincidir en un hotel de la costa en el que se van a producir una serie de equívocos.
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Bert Wheeler es un pobre cleptómano en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII, y esto provoca que la pareja viva todo tipo de situaciones disparatadas.
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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men es una película inteligente y perceptiva sobre las relaciones de clase que deja suficientes preguntas para que el final sea absolutamente perfecto o absolutamente devastador, dependiendo de tu punto de vista.
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The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which is listened to by Dorothy on the radio whose home-brewing husband Walter hates Harris. The action then moves to the country club where Walter unknowingly encounters Harris while being aggravated by his music. Walter then pretends to be Phil to meet a woman while Harris "entertains" her friend, Dorothy.
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The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which is listened to by Dorothy on the radio whose home-brewing husband Walter hates Harris. The action then moves to the country club where Walter unknowingly encounters Harris while being aggravated by his music. Walter then pretends to be Phil to meet a woman while Harris "entertains" her friend, Dorothy.
Adaptation
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Screenplay
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This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
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A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
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Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough star as a couple of wacky soda jerks. They do a high wire act while delivering a much needed pair of pants to their boss.
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Two street cleaners, fired by the commissioner for playing with fire-crackers on the job, are taken to his home to recuperate from a car accident by his wife.
Screenplay
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Adaptation
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner believes that they are real policemen and they get back the patrol car. Out on the beat, the duo chase women rather than criminals, just like real cops.
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Charles 'Chic' Sale gets in the middle of a train robbery!
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Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
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A comedy short featuring Caryl Lincoln & Eddie Clayton.
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A wandering swordsman in the reign of Louis XIII stumbles into a nest of conspirators against the King when his horse throws him and he is forced to seek refuge in a nearby inn. Without money or rank, he is treated ignominiously by patron and customers, but when a captured messenger from the King arrives, accompanied by a lovely lady, he swings into action to save the day. Or try to...
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Lupino Lane as part of the Mounties catching crooks.
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A comedy short all about finding the right type of dog for a Hollywood movie.
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Sailor Lupino Lane goes on shore leave with his messmate Wallace Lupino. Each has a girl in this port, but little do they suspect that the girls are twin sisters.
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Trying to catch a $25,000 runaway kid called Jerry the Giant.
