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Theatre, Film, and Television Biographies
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Richard Sale Biography (1911-1993)
Full name, Richard Bernard Sale; born December 17, 1911, in New York, NY; died of complications from a stroke, March, 1993; son of Richard Bernard and Frances (Topinka) Sale; married Mary Anita Loos (a novelist and screenwriter), December 17, 1946 (divorced); married Irma Foster (a designer); children: (first marriage) Edward Clifford; (second marriage) Richard Townsend, Linsday Sale Bowen. Addresses: Contact--H. N. Swanson, Inc., 8523 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Birth Details
- December 17, 1911
- New York, New York, United States
Famous Works
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Credits
- FILM WORK; DIRECTOR,EXCEPT WHERE NOTED Spoilers of the North, Republic, 1947.
- Campus Honeymoon (also see below), Republic, 1948.
- I'll Get By (also see below), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950.
- Ticket to Tomahawk (also see below), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950.
- Half Angel, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951.
- Let's Make It Legal, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951.
- Meet Me after the Show (also see below), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951.
- My Wife's Best Friend, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952.
- The Girl Next Door, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953.
- Fire over Africa (also known as Malaga), Columbia, 1954.
- (And producer with Robert Waterfield), Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (also see below), United Artists, 1955.
- Abandon Ship (also known as Seven Waves Away; also see below), Columbia,1957.
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Credits; TELEVISION PRODUCER; SERIES
- (With Mary Loos) Yancy Derringer, CBS, 1958-59.
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Credits; TELEVISION PRODUCER; PILOTS
- Mr. Belvedere (also see below), CBS, 1965.
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Writings;SCREENPLAYS
- (With Mary Loos) Rendezvous with Annie, Republic, 1946.
- (With Elizabeth Meehan and Laird Doyle) Northwest Outpost (also known asEnd of the Rainbow; based on a story by Angela Stuart), Republic, 1947.
- (With Mary Loos and Lee Loeb) Calendar Girl (based on a story by Loeb), Republic, 1947.
- (With Mary Loos) Driftwood, Republic, 1947.
- (With Jerry Gruskin) Campus Honeymoon (based on a story by Thomas R.
- St. George), Republic, 1948.
- (With Mary Loos) The Dude Goes West, Allied Artists, 1948.
- (With Mary Loos) The Inside Story (based on a story by Ernest Lehman andGeza Herczeg), Republic, 1948.
- Lady at Midnight, Eagle Lion, 1948.
- (With Aleen Leslie, Casey Robinson, and Mary Loos) Father Was a Fullback(based on a play by Clifford Goldsmith), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949.
- (With Mary Loos) Mother Is a Freshman (also known as Mother Knows Best; based on a story by Raphael Blau), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949.
- (With Mary Loos) When Willie Comes Marching Home (based on the story "When Leo Comes Marching Home" by Sy Gomberg), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949.
- (With Mary Loos and Mary McCall, Jr.) Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (based on the character from "Sitting Pretty" created by Gwen Davenport), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949.
- (With Mary Loos) I'll Get By (based on a story by Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, and Pamela Harris), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950.
- (With Mary Loos) Ticket to Tomahawk, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950.
- (With Mary Loos) Meet Me after the Show (based on a story by Erna Lazarusand W. Scott Darling), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951.
- (With Mary Loos) Let's Do It Again (based on the play The Awful Truth byArthur Richman), Columbia, 1953.
- (With Mary Loos) The French Line (based on a story by Matty Kemp and Isabel Dawn), RKO Radio Pictures, 1954.
- Suddenly, United Artists, 1954.
- (With Mary Loos, Claude Binyon, Howard Linsday, and Russel Crouse) Woman's World (based on a story by Mona Williams), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954.
- (With Mary Loos) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (based on the story "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" by Anita Loos), United Artists, 1955.
- Abandon Ship (also known as Seven Waves Away), Columbia, 1957.
- (With William Wister Haines) Torpedo Run (based on stories by Sale), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1958.
- The White Buffalo (also known as Hunt to Kill; based on the novel by Sale; also see below), Dino de Laurentiis/United Artists, 1977.
- Assassination (based on Sale's novel My Affair with the President's Wife), Cannon, 1987.
- Other screenplays include Home Is the Hangman, 1949, and Murder at Midnight, 1950.
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Writings;TELEVISION PILOTS
- Mr. Belvedere, CBS, 1965.
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Writings;OTHER
- Not Too Narrow ... Not Too Deep (also see below), Simon & Schuster, 1936.
- Is a Ship Burning?, Cassell, 1937, Dodd, 1938.
- Cardinal Rock, Cassell, 1940.
- Sailor Take Warning, Wells Gardner, 1942.
- Lazarus No. 7, Simon & Schuster, 1942, published in England as DeathLooks In, Cassell, 1943.
- Passing Strange: A Story of Birth and Burial, Simon & Schuster, 1942,published as Passing Strange: A Mystery of Birth and Burial, Quinn, 1943.
- Destination Unknown, World's Work, 1943, published as Death at Sea, Popular Library, 1948.
- Benefit Performance, Simon & Schuster, 1946.
- The Oscar (novel; also see below), Simon & Schuster, 1963.
- For the President's Eyes Only, Simon & Schuster, 1971, published in England as The Man Who Raised Hell.
- The Square-Shooters, Simon & Schuster, 1972.
- Author of the novels The White Buffalo and My Affair with the President'sWife. Contributor of more than four hundred stories to magazines and newspapers, including the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, GoodHousekeeping, Esquire, and Detective Fiction Weekly. Yachting editor, OrangeCounty Illustrated, beginning in 1963. Some writings appear under the pseudonym John St. John.
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Other Works
- Adaptations: Find the Witness, released by Columbia in 1937, and Shadowsover Shanghai, released by General National in 1938, were both based on stories by Sale. Strange Cargo, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1940, was basedon Sale's book Not Too Narrow ... Not Too Deep. This Side of the Law, released by Warner Bros. in 1950, was based on a story by Sale and Over-Exposed, released by Columbia in 1956, was based on a story by Sale and Mary Loos. The Oscar, released by Embassy in 1966, was based on Sale's novel of the same title.
Further Reference
PERIODICALS
- Los Angeles Times, March 8, 1993, p. A16.
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