Sarah Y. Mason
Sarah Y. Mason (March 31, 1896 – November 28, 1980) was an American screenwriter and script supervisor.[1]
Biography
Mason was born in Pima, Arizona. She and her husband Victor Heerman won the Academy Award for best screenplay adaptation for their adaptation for the 1933 film Little Women, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Mason was one of the first people in Hollywood to specialize in script supervision and film continuity when the industry switched from silent film to talkies.[2][3]
She and Heerman married in 1921. She died in Los Angeles and was cremated. Victor and Sarah had two children, Catharine Anliss Heerman, an artist and teacher of art in Southern California, and Victor, Jr., a successful breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses. The Academy Award for Little Women remains with the family.
Selected filmography
- Magnificent Obsession: 1954 (based upon the screenplay by)
- Little Women: 1949 (screenplay)
- Meet Me in St. Louis: 1944 (uncredited)
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob: 1941 (uncredited)
- Pride and Prejudice: 1940 (uncredited)
- Golden Boy: 1939 (screenplay)
- Stella Dallas: 1937 (screenplay)
- Magnificent Obsession: 1935 (screenplay)
- Break of Hearts: 1935 (screen play)
- The Little Minister: 1934 (screenplay)
- Imitation of Life: 1934 (uncredited)
- The Age of Innocence: 1934 (screenplay)
- Little Women: 1933 (screenplay)
- Held In Trust (1920) (scenario)
References
- ^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland, ISBN 9780786410590
- ^ Schallert, Edwin (February 4, 1929). Wow of a sound film on screen. Los Angeles Times
- ^ Staff report (April 7, 1929). Rivoli To Have 'Fancy Baggage.' Baltimore Sun
External links
- Sarah Y. Mason at IMDb
- Sarah Y. Mason at the Women Film Pioneers Project
- Sarah Y. Mason at Find a Grave
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