Richard Sale
Born: 1911-12-17 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1993-03-04
Known For: Writing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Richard Sale, (17 December 1911, New York – 4 March 1993, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and film director. He started his career writing for the pulps in the Thirties, appearing regularly in Detective Fiction Weekly (with the Daffy Dill series), Argosy, Double Detective, and a number of other magazines. In the Forties, he graduated to slick publications like The Country Gentleman and The Saturday Evening Post. In the mid-Forties, he made a career change from writing magazine fiction to screenplays. A big boost to Sale's success was his novel Not Too Narrow...Not Too Deep, filmed as Strange Cargo (1940) starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. He directed several films, including A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950), Meet Me After the Show (1951) with Betty Grable, Let's Make It Legal (1951) with one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest film appearances, Suddenly (1954), Malaga (1954), and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell. He also authored many screenplays, The French Line (1954) and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, both with Mary Loos, The Oscar (1966) and Assassination (1987) Together with his wife, they created the TV series Yancy Derringer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Sale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1987
- Assassination ... (Writer)
1977
- The White Buffalo ... (Screenplay)
1967
- The High Chaparral ... (Director)
- Custer ... (Writer)
- Accidental Family ... (Writer)
1966
- The Oscar ... (Novel)
1965
- The F.B.I. ... (Writer)
1964
- Bewitched ... (Writer)
1958
- Torpedo Run ... (Story)
- Yancy Derringer ... (Director)
1957
- Abandon Ship ... (Director)
1956
- Over-Exposed ... (Story)
1955
- Gentlemen Marry Brunettes ... (Screenplay)
1954
- Malaga ... (Director)
- Suddenly ... (Screenplay)
- Woman's World ... (Writer)
- The French Line ... (Screenplay)
1953
- Let's Do It Again ... (Screenplay)
- The Girl Next Door ... (Director)
1952
- My Wife's Best Friend ... (Director)
1951
- Half Angel ... (Director)
- Let's Make It Legal ... (Director)
- Meet Me After the Show ... (Director)
1950
- A Ticket to Tomahawk ... (Director)
- When Willie Comes Marching Home ... (Screenplay)
- This Side of the Law ... (Story)
- I'll Get By ... (Director)
1949
- Mother Is a Freshman ... (Writer)
- Father Was a Fullback ... (Screenplay)
- Mr. Belvedere Goes to College ... (Writer)
1948
- Campus Honeymoon ... (Director)
- The Dude Goes West ... (Screenplay)
- The Inside Story ... (Screenplay)
- Lady at Midnight ... (Writer)
1947
- Northwest Outpost ... (Screenplay)
- Driftwood as Mailman
- Calendar Girl ... (Screenplay)
- Spoilers of the North ... (Director)
1946
- Rendezvous with Annie as Flight Clerk
1940
- Strange Cargo ... (Novel)
1938
- Shadows Over Shanghai ... (Story)