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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...
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BewitchedSeries • 1964
The F.B.I.Series • 1965
The High ChaparralSeries • 1967
Yancy DerringerSeries • 1958
The White BuffaloMovie • 1977
AssassinationMovie • 1987
SuddenlyMovie • 1954
Strange CargoMovie • 1940
Seven Waves AwayMovie • 1957
Let's Make It LegalMovie • 1951
Gentlemen Marry BrunettesMovie • 1955
Woman's WorldMovie • 1954
Torpedo RunMovie • 1958