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Sarah Y. Mason

Sarah Y. Mason

1896 - 1980

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The writer Sarah Y. Mason first tried to get a foothold in the film business as an actress but she was engaged by director Allan Dwan as a script supervisor for his movie "Arizona" (18).
 
Shortly afterwards she met director and writer Victor Heerman and they got married in 1920.
 
In the next years they often worked together as a writer team and Sarah Y. Mason wrote the scripts to movies like "Heart of Twenty" (20), "The Poor Simp" (20), "The Chicken in the Case" (21), "Modern Matrimony" (23), "Fools of Fashion" (26), "Backstage" (27), "Alias Jimmy Valentine" (28) and "The Broadway Melody" (29).
 
She continued her career in the 30s and wrote the screenplays for "The Girl Said No" (30), "The Man in Possession" (31), "The Age of Consent" (32), "Chance at Heaven" (33), "Little Women" (33), "The Age of Innocence" (34), "The Little Minister" (34), "Stella Dallas" (37) and "Golden Boy" (39).
For "Little Women" (33) she got the Oscar for the best adapted screenplay together with Victor Heerman.
 
Her last cinematical works came in the 40s into being, among them "A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob" (41), "Meet Me in St. Louis" (44) and the remake of "Little Women" (49).
 

Other movies from Sarah Y. Mason:
Bright Skies (20) Held in Trust (20) A Divorce of Convenience (21) The Girl from Nowhere (21) Leap Year (24) One Hour of Love (27) The Cradle Snatchers (27) They Learned About Women (30) Love in the Rough (30) Shopworn (32) Break of Hearts (35) Magnificent Obsession (35) 


 
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