Richard Sale (director)


Richard Sale, was an American screenwriter, pulp writer, and film director.

Career

Born in New York City, Sale was educated at Washington and Lee University.
Sale started his career writing as a freelance writer for pulps in the Thirties, appearing regularly in Detective Fiction Weekly, 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 to mid-Fifties, he made a career change from writing magazine fiction to screenplays. He became a writer for Paramount pictures, a writer-director for Republic Pictures, 20th Century-Fox, British Lion, United Artists, and Columbia pictures. He even became a television writer, director, producer for Columbia Broadcasting System.
Sale's novel Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep was filmed as Strange Cargo starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
He directed several films, including A Ticket to Tomahawk, Meet Me After the Show with Betty Grable, Let's Make It Legal featuring one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest film appearances, Malaga, and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes with Jane Russell. He also wrote many screenplays,Suddenly, The French Line and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, both with Mary Loos his wife at the time, The Oscar, The White Buffalo and Assassination. Alongside his work for many production companies, Sale wrote over 400 short stories.
Together with Mary Loos, he created the Western television series Yancy Derringer which ran for one season in 1958–59.
Sale died in 1993 after complications from two strokes.

Selected screenplay filmography

Some of these additional movies were found on the Los Angeles Times.