Richard Sale

Writing·Dec 17, 1911· New York City, New York, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
Assassination1987 · Writer	Writer
The White Buffalo1977 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Torpedo Run1958 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Seven Waves Away1957 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes1955 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Woman's World1954 · Writer	Writer
Suddenly1954 · Screenplay	Screenplay
The French Line1954 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Let's Do It Again1953 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Meet Me After the Show1951 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
I'll Get By1950 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
A Ticket to Tomahawk1950 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
When Willie Comes Marching Home1950 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Father Was a Fullback1949 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College1949 · Writer	Writer
Mother Is a Freshman1949 · Writer	Writer
Lady at Midnight1948 · Writer	Writer
The Dude Goes West1948 · Screenplay	Screenplay
The Inside Story1948 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Campus Honeymoon1948 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Driftwood1947 · Mailman, Screenplay	Mailman, Screenplay
Northwest Outpost1947 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Calendar Girl1947 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Rendezvous with Annie1946 · Flight Clerk, Screenplay	Flight Clerk, Screenplay