Sam White (film producer) Sam White (film producer) Sam White was an American film producer, film director and actor. White was born in Los Angeles on to parents who had immigrated from Austria and Hungary. In 1937, he married Claretta Ellis, a studio contract dancer. They were married for 65 years until her death in 2002. For much of the 1930s, Sam White directed numerous musical sequences in films such as "Roberta" with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne; "Old Man Rhythm" with Betty Grable and Buddy Rogers; "Top of the Town" with George Murphy; and "Hooray for Love", with Ann Sothern. During
Ginger Rogers Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, the noir, anti-Ku Klux Klan film by Warner Bros., and in "Monkey Business" (1952) with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe, directed by Howard Hawks. In the same year, she also starred in "We're Not Married!", also featuring Marilyn Monroe, and in "Dreamboat". She played the female lead in "Tight Spot" (1955), a mystery thriller, with Edward G. Robinson. After a series of unremarkable films, she scored a great popular success on Broadway in 1965, playing Dolly Levi in the long-running "Hello, Dolly!". In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire; she presented him