Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Mark Sandrich papers
- Dates:
- 1924-1994, bulk 1926-1945
- Creators:
- Sandrich, Mark
- Extent:
- 7.8 linear feet of papers.
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Mark Sandrich papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2013
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from Inmagic. Date of source: September 17, 2013
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Available by appointment only.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the Margaret Herrick Library. Researchers are responsible for obtaining all necessary rights, licenses, or permissions from the appropriate companies or individuals before quoting from or publishing materials obtained from the library.
- Preferred citation:
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Mark Sandrich papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Location of this collection:
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333 S. La Cienega BlvdBeverly Hills, CA 90211, US
- Contact:
- (310) 247-3036 extension 2226