Mark Sandrich


 Director Mark Sandrich is seen here with Ginger Rogers during filming of the 1935 "Top Hat". He was born 1900 in NYC and became a director of short films in 1927 and in 1928 directed his first feature. He did uncredited second unit work on the first Astaire Rogers teaming, "Flying Down to Rio" in 1933 and he directed several of their films, "The Gay Divorcee" 1934, "Top Hat" 1935, "Follow the Fleet" 1936, "Shall We Dance" 1937 and "Carefree" 1938 but he did other films such as the Wheeler and Woolsey "Hips, Hips, Hooray" and Katharine Hepburn in "A Woman Rebels". He left RKO for Paramount in 1939 where he produced and directed such films as "Buck Benny Rides Again" and "So Proudly We Hail with Claudette Colbert. Mark Sandrich died in 1945 suddenly of a heart attack at age 44.

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