Sarah Y. Mason

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1896-03-31 (84 years old)

Deathday

1980-11-28

Place of Birth

Pima, Arizona, USA

Sarah Y. Mason

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sarah Y. Mason (March 31, 1896 – November 28, 1980) was an American screenwriter and script supervisor. Mason was born Sarah Yeiser Mason 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. She and Heerman married in 1921. She died in Los Angeles and was cremated. Victor and Sarah had two children, Ca...

Production

1949

Little Women

as Screenplay

1939

Golden Boy

as Screenplay

1937

Stella Dallas

as Screenplay

1933

Little Women

as Screenplay

1935

1935

Break of Hearts

as Screenplay

1927

1934

The Little Minister

as Screenplay

1930

They Learned About Women

as Scenario Writer

1931

1932

The Age of Consent

as Screenplay

1918

Arizona

as Writer

1932

Shopworn

as Story

1933

Chance at Heaven

as Screenplay

1930

Love in the Rough

as Adaptation

1934

1921

1920

1930

1921

1931

The Man in Possession

as Additional Dialogue

1926

1929

The Broadway Melody

as Continuity

1930

1927

Backstage

as Story

1944

Meet Me in St. Louis

as Additional Writing

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