Richard Sale
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.
Known for
WritingBirthday
December 17, 1911Deathday
March 4, 1993Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
37Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA![](/assets/default-profile-icon.jpg)
Cast credits
Crew credits
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/n6NBpVPI0qiyzpynRLpnE2Y9w1x.jpg)
Woman's World
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/z440UCgYVwPv3QyIVp9cH44wpKF.jpg)
Let's Make It Legal
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/rn9u9XzDNagh1KFmWjWhAGt69IW.jpg)
This Side of the Law
Story![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/szvuG051LtheWv94QBcqldE4Wsu.jpg)
The White Buffalo
Screenplay, Novel![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/5wGAfVATbWAL6g91XMnMZeMKz5F.jpg)
Assassination
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/v0eQfRMVJtvEkaJjBsSrd6ri1UI.jpg)
Suddenly
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/8UjZ0QxyXuBRydepF0ByaLFpuhX.jpg)
The Girl Next Door
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/igP9H7FCCnTzaqWgfyEij1xWp86.jpg)
The French Line
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/frYYVwR80lMlTQlMMogg9B9KtqO.jpg)
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Screenplay, Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4q6g7tQw8U3HRfj9i2W9FeKlwNG.jpg)
Abandon Ship
Director, Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/lZ1aPTSq0t6HKrB7VFU4HpULnos.jpg)
Mother Is a Freshman
Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/rEQfOe5yhkyz5SY9zF8CzG7vBy8.jpg)
Malaga
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/tXK5mfKkf26nQzdM3rNljr0rXpT.jpg)
Half Angel
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/66UtRBilFITdN0zNUmMEGFpiGm4.jpg)
Northwest Outpost
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/37kMxmBtAedNs4J8r3aVSyZl7lz.jpg)
Calendar Girl
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/yUR3KtvCT80ZMHUjpPBNazMEHHM.jpg)
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Director, Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/cxEPOT0aUzehduOZQ8fZ5PQB4Zj.jpg)
The Inside Story
Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/iAQHAIhxHpATukPUVV6w4LrMGk8.jpg)
My Wife's Best Friend
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/t8mwwnBnWUAAOwBMBfMYgpAu8Ns.jpg)
I'll Get By
Director, Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/uVFHnb7c0BFRraELjOmfg7lDUJI.jpg)
Meet Me After the Show
Director, Screenplay![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/qKqZzcVuXx7wg5pBCtMYFNRtwfN.jpg)
Over-Exposed
Story