Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Sandrich, Mark
- Extent:
- 7.8 linear feet of papers.
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Mark Sandrich papers span the years 1924-1994 (bulk 1926-1945) and encompass 7.8 linear feet. The collection contains a variety of film-related production material, scripts, and clippings. There is some script material for television and some miscellaneous story material by Sandrich and others. There are Paramount and RKO studio memos, government-issued production material from World War II, and extensive correspondence with Irving Berlin. A scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, and programs within its several hundred pages was dismantled. The resulting files contain primarily press clippings from West and East Coast industry trade papers and newspapers documenting Sandrich's professional career.
- Biographical / historical:
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Mark Sandrich was an American director active from the 1920s to mid-1940s. A short film he directed, SO THIS IS HARRIS (1933), received an Academy Award. Sandrich also directed several Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Cathy Sandrich, 1999-2013; Jay Sandrich, 2003
- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series: 1. Production files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced; 2. Television files; 3. Story files; 4. Subject files; 5. Oversize; 6. Photographs, subseries A-C as follows: A. Biography; B. Subject; C. Production
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- directors
- Names:
- Sandrich, Mark , 1900-1945--Archives.
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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333 S. La Cienega BlvdBeverly Hills, CA 90211, US
- Contact:
- (310) 247-3036 extension 2226