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 midForties he made a career change from writing magazine fiction to screenplays A big boost to Sales success was his novel Not Too NarrowNot 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 Lets Make It Legal 1951 with one of Marilyn Monroes 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia