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Richard Sale
New York City, New York, USA
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 ca…
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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.
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1987
Assassination
Movie Writer
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1977
The White Buffalo
Movie Screenplay
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1967
Accidental Family
TV show Writer
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1967
The High Chaparral
TV show Director
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1967
Custer
TV show Writer
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1966
The Oscar
Movie Novel
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show Writer
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1964
Bewitched
TV show Writer
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1958
Torpedo Run
Movie Story
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1958
Yancy Derringer
TV show Director
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1957
Seven Waves Away
Movie Director
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1956
Over-Exposed
Movie Story
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1955
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Woman's World
Movie Writer
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1954
Suddenly
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Malaga
Movie Director
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1954
The French Line
Movie Screenplay
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1953
Let's Do It Again
Movie Screenplay
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1953
The Girl Next Door
Movie Director
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1952
My Wife's Best Friend
Movie Director
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1951
Let's Make It Legal
Movie Director
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1951
Meet Me After the Show
Movie Director
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1951
Half Angel
Movie Director
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1950
I'll Get By
Movie Director
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1950
This Side of the Law
Movie Story
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1950
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Movie Director
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1950
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Movie Screenplay
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1949
Father Was a Fullback
Movie Screenplay
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1949
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Movie Writer
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1949
Mother Is a Freshman
Movie Writer
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1948
Lady at Midnight
Movie Writer
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1948
The Dude Goes West
Movie Screenplay
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1948
The Inside Story
Movie Screenplay
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1948
Campus Honeymoon
Movie Director
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1947
Driftwood
Movie Mailman
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1947
Northwest Outpost
Movie Screenplay
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1947
Spoilers of the North
Movie Director
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1947
Calendar Girl
Movie Screenplay
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1946
Rendezvous with Annie
Movie Flight Clerk
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1940
Strange Cargo
Movie Novel
