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Richard Sale

Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Died March 4, 1993 (81 years)
​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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Suddenly
Known For
  • Suddenly
  • Assassination
  • Torpedo Run
  • The Oscar
  • Let's Make It Legal
  • A Ticket to Tomahawk
  • Bewitched
  • Strange Cargo
  • Yancy Derringer
  • Driftwood
  • Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
  • The French Line
  • Woman's World
  • The Inside Story
  • The Girl Next Door
  • Let's Do It Again
  • The High Chaparral
  • The F.B.I.

Filmography

1987
1977
The White Buffalo · as Screenplay
1967
Accidental Family (TV Series)
1967
The High Chaparral (TV Series)
1967
Custer (TV Series)
1966
The Oscar · as Novel
1965
The F.B.I. (TV Series)
1964
Bewitched (TV Series)
1958
Torpedo Run · as Screenplay
1958
Yancy Derringer (TV Series)
1957
Seven Days from Now · as Screenplay
1955
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes · as Screenplay
1954
1954
Suddenly · as Screenplay
1953
The French Line · as Screenplay
1953
Let's Do It Again · as Screenplay
1951
Meet Me After the Show · as Screenplay
1950
I'll Get By · as Screenplay
1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk · as Screenplay
1950
1949
Father Was a Fullback · as Screenplay
1949
1949
1948
1948
The Dude Goes West · as Screenplay
1948
The Inside Story · as Screenplay
1948
1947
Driftwood · as Screenplay
1947
Northwest Outpost · as Screenplay
1947
Calendar Girl · as Screenplay
1946
Rendezvous with Annie · as Screenplay
1940
Strange Cargo · as Novel

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