Richard Sale (director)

Richard Sale
Born (1911-12-17)December 17, 1911
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died March 4, 1993(1993-03-04) (aged 81)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Film director, writer
Sale's "Rescued by Satan" was cover-featured on Mystery Adventure in 1936

Richard Sale, (17 December 1911, in New York – 4 March 1993, in Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and film director.[1]

Career

Sale 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) featuring one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest film appearances, Malaga (1954), and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell. He also wrote many screenplays,Suddenly (1954), The French Line (1954) and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, both with Mary Loos his wife at the time, The Oscar (1966), The White Buffalo (1977) and Assassination (1987)

Together with Mary Loos, he created the Western television series Yancy Derringer which ran for one season in 1958–59.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ↑ The New York Times


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