sentences:  He came to the United States as a child in the first decade of the 1900s and worked as a portrait photographer in New York before entering films with Flying A Studios in 1913.His credits include "Grumpy" (1930), "The Virtuous Sin" (1930), "Huckleberry Finn" (1931), "The Gay Divorcee" (1934), "Top Hat" (1935), "Follow the Fleet" (1936), and "The Affairs of Susan" (1945).At RKO Pictures during the 1930s, Abel was a favorite collaborator of director Mark Sandrich and was responsible for the photography of five Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals ("The Gay Divorcee", "Top Hat", "Follow the Fleet", "Swing Time", and "Shall We Dance").