Richard Sale papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2287

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains television and film scripts, drafts of novels and manuscripts, and books that were written or collected by Richard Sale during his career as an author and screenwriter from 1937-1987. Titles include The Wild Country, Try, Try Again, and Lazarus #7, which was written first as a novel and then translated to a screenplay.

Dates

Creation: 1937 - 1987

Creator

Sale, Richard, 1911-1993 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

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Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Richard Sale (1911-1993) was an American author, screenwriter, and producer from around 1937 until around 1987. He wrote for pulp magazines for the first portion of his career, transitioning to writing screenplays around the 1940s.