Mark Sandrich

Mark Sandrich was born in New York in 1900. A student of engineering at Columbia, he entered the cinema through the props department, then from 1927 directed comic short films, one of which received an Oscar. At RKO, he directed five of the films of the couple formed by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and filmed their numbers in long takes, as the dancer wished. He died of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1945, aged forty-four.

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• CinemaTop HatMark Sandrich · 1935Cinema