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Richard Sale, was an American screenwriter and film director. He started his career writing for the 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, he made a career change from writing magazine fiction to screenplays. A big boost to Sale's success was his novel Not Too NarrowNot Too Deep, 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 with one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest film appearances, Suddenly , Malaga , and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes with Jane Russell. He also authored many screenplays, The French Line and Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, both with Mary Loos, The Oscar , The White Buffalo and Assassination Together with his wife, they created the TV series Yancy Derringer.
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