Mark Sandrich
Рождение : 1901-10-26, New York City, New York, USA
Смерть : 1945-03-04
История
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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During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.
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Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
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Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
Producer
В начале декабря 1941 года группу медсестер армии США отправляют из Сан-Франциско на военно-морскую базу на Гавайях. Нападение японцев на Перл-Харбор 7 декабря 1941 года изменило адрес их переброски: корабль, на котором они плыли, направляют на полуостров Батан, Филиппины. Туда же посылают группу медсестер во главе с лейтенантом Джанет Дэвидсон. В ее составе медсестры, не имеющие опыта работы и ожидавшие райскую жизнь в Гонолулу. Суровая действительность, с которой они сталкиваются по прибытии на Филиппины быстро позволяет им набраться опыта и, несмотря горечь потерь, утрату близких и тоску по дому, стать профессионалами своего дела. Военно-патриотический фильм США времен Второй мировой войны.
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В начале декабря 1941 года группу медсестер армии США отправляют из Сан-Франциско на военно-морскую базу на Гавайях. Нападение японцев на Перл-Харбор 7 декабря 1941 года изменило адрес их переброски: корабль, на котором они плыли, направляют на полуостров Батан, Филиппины. Туда же посылают группу медсестер во главе с лейтенантом Джанет Дэвидсон. В ее составе медсестры, не имеющие опыта работы и ожидавшие райскую жизнь в Гонолулу. Суровая действительность, с которой они сталкиваются по прибытии на Филиппины быстро позволяет им набраться опыта и, несмотря горечь потерь, утрату близких и тоску по дому, стать профессионалами своего дела. Военно-патриотический фильм США времен Второй мировой войны.
Producer
Мюзикл,о певце и танцоре Джиме Харди, который оставляет шоу-бизнес, чтобы стать фермером-джентльменом в Новой Англии. Однако фермерская жизнь оказывается для него слишком трудной и обыденной, и, пытаясь «убить двух зайцев», герой превращает свою ферму в загородный развлекательный клуб, широко открывающий двери в дни национальных праздников и торжеств.
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Мюзикл,о певце и танцоре Джиме Харди, который оставляет шоу-бизнес, чтобы стать фермером-джентльменом в Новой Англии. Однако фермерская жизнь оказывается для него слишком трудной и обыденной, и, пытаясь «убить двух зайцев», герой превращает свою ферму в загородный развлекательный клуб, широко открывающий двери в дни национальных праздников и торжеств.
Producer
Отметив пятилетний юбилей свадьбы, Лидия Кеньон не чувствует себя счастливой. Напротив - мелькая на вторых ролях в жизни одержимого работой мужа, oна ощущает себя одинокой. И как раз в тот момент, когда Лидия оказалась на перепутье, ей встречается очаровательный и одинокий юрист, и их невинный флирт начинает превращаться во что-то более серьезное...
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Отметив пятилетний юбилей свадьбы, Лидия Кеньон не чувствует себя счастливой. Напротив - мелькая на вторых ролях в жизни одержимого работой мужа, oна ощущает себя одинокой. И как раз в тот момент, когда Лидия оказалась на перепутье, ей встречается очаровательный и одинокий юрист, и их невинный флирт начинает превращаться во что-то более серьезное...
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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.
Producer
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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Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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Однажды юрист Стивен Арден приходит на прием к своему другу психиатру Тони Флаггу с просьбой вывести его из запоя, связанного с его предстоящей женитьбой на популярной радиозвезде Аманде Купер, которая оказалась весьма непредсказуемой особой. Волею судьбы Аманда оказывается в кабинете Тони, и случайно включив фонограф, слышит нелестное мнение доктора о своей персоне. Девушка решает досадить врачу за его слова, но у неё получается с точностью наоборот, она влюбляется в Тони. Психиатр, желая помочь другу вернуть любовь, гипнотизирует Аманду, заложив в неё ненависть к себе, добавив в конце сеанса слова, — «ненавижу и пристрелю, как бешеного пса». Аманда, под действием гипноза, устроила настоящее сафари во время загородной прогулки. Хрупкая девушка едва не убила Тони. Чтобы вывести её из транса парню пришлось проявить немалую прыть и сообразительность…
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Танцовщик Пит Питере — гениальный мастер своего жанра. Его импресарио и продюсер Джеффри, чтобы заинтриговать публику, выдает его за русского по фамилии Петров. Однако «Петрова» все время тянет танцевать что-то «несерьезное», в основном степ.
К тому же он неравнодушен к танцовщице и актрисе Линде Кин, которая успешно выступает с танцевальными номерами. И он решает, что девушка должна танцевать только с ним. Чтобы познакомиться и завоевать сердце красавицы, танцор идет на различные ухищрения, порой очень комичные…
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A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
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После долгих странствий по морям и океанам эскадра кораблей встает на якорь возле Лос-Анжелеса. Моряки, соскучившиеся по суше, получают увольнительную на берег. Среди них самые веселые парни команды Симэн — Бэк Бэйкер и Мэт Байлг Смит. Они намерены познакомиться с хорошими девушками, весело провести время, и, конечно же, их планы сбываются. Ребята встречают сестер Шерри и Конни Мартин которыми увлекаются, и, похоже, очень серьёзно…
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В богатом Лондонском отеле американский певец и танцовщик Джерри Трэверс глубокой ночью показывает своему импресарио очередной танцевальный номер. Звонкий стэп танцора разбудил красавицу Дэйл Тремон, снимающую комнату этажом ниже. Возмущенная девушка поднялась наверх и знакомство с нарушителем тишины состоялось.
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Гай Холден популярный американский танцор степа, успешно закончив гастрольное ревю в Париже, прибывает в Лондон в сопровождении своего лучшего друга адвоката Эгберта. Здесь должен состояться финальный концерт европейских гастролей. В лондонском порту он, волей случая, знакомится с Мими Глоссоп и сразу же влюбляется в нее. Девушка же, тем временем, озабочена другой проблемой — она жаждет развестись со своим мужем геологом. Но для этого она должна, по совету юриста, отправиться на английский морской курорт, где все подстроено так чтобы профессиональный нанятый свидетель имел возможность получить доказательства ее неверности. Только в этом случае она сможет получить свободу от уз брака, таковы Английские законы. Конечно же, план юриста терпит крах и возникает путаница, Мими принимает Гая, за подставного свидетеля и соответственным образом начинает с ним обращаться…
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Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Director
Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.
Director
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
Story
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.
Director
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
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.
Screenplay
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
Director
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.
Director
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
Director
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.
Director
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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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).
Director
In the first RKO Short featuring the comedy team of Clark & McCullough, Clark (Bobby Clark)and Grustark (Paul McCullough)seek refuge in the boarding house owned by Finlayson (James Finlayson)after wrecking the car owned by Morgan (Kewpie Morgan). Finlayson, never without rules, warns them there is no cooking allowed in the rooms and his new roomers proceed to pop corn over the gas heater. A young girl (Josephine Whittell)mistakes their room for the bathroom, which leads to some pre-code complications. The slapstick ending finds Clark and Grustark driving out of the boarding house in Morgan's car with a bed attached to the car.
Writer
Private Ginsberg (Nat Carr), is a Jewish soldier, in World War One, who is always falling into mud or grief. Along the way, he unconsciously, as a buck private, puts on the overcoat belonging to a General, and takes full advantage of the favorable situations he encounters, although he knows no reason why his status has changed.
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Private Ginsberg (Nat Carr), is a Jewish soldier, in World War One, who is always falling into mud or grief. Along the way, he unconsciously, as a buck private, puts on the overcoat belonging to a General, and takes full advantage of the favorable situations he encounters, although he knows no reason why his status has changed.
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Schlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that "talking pictures are in their infantry," decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted musical, starring the sensation of Paris (with a bad French accent), Adore Renee, and a swishy leading man, Reginald Whitlock. Meanwhile, his daughter, Judy Ginsburg, gets involved in a romance with Ginsburg's Gentile lawyer, John Applegate. His efforts aren't helped any by the projectionist who mixes up the sound-disc reels, with the images not matching the dialogue and sound effects, during a showing for prospective film buyers and exhibitors.
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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.
