| LC control no. | n 94092972 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3537.A413 |
| Personal name heading | Sale, Richard, 1911-1993 |
| Birth date | 1911-12-17 |
| Death date | 1993-03-04 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture producers and directors Screenwriters |
| Found in | Northwest outpost [MP] 1947: credits (screen play, Richard Sale) Katz, E. Film ency., c1979: p. 1011 (Sale, Richard; b. 12/17/11 in New York, NY; film director, screenwriter, writer) LC data base, 9/28/94 (hdg.: Sale, Richard, 1911- ) Internet movie database, June 14, 2006 (Richard Sale, b. Dec. 17, 1911 in New York, N.Y.; d. Mar. 4, 1993 in Los Angeles, Calif.; writer, director) Wikipedia, May 26, 2016 (Richard Sale (director); Richard Sale, (17 December 1911, in New York- 4 March 1993, in Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and film director; Sale started his career writing for the pulps in the 1930s, appearing regularly in Detective Fiction Weekly (with the Daffy Dill series), Argosy, Double Detective, and a number of other magazines; in the 1940s, he graduated to slick publications like The Country Gentleman and The Saturday Evening Post; in the mid-1940s, 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, Malaga (1954), and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell; he also authored many screenplays, such as Suddenly (1954), The French Line (1954) and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, with Mary Loos his wife at the time, The Oscar (1966), The White Buffalo (1977) and Assassination (1987); together with Mary Loos, they created the TV series Yancy Derringer) |
| Associated language | eng |
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