American author of short stories and screenwriter (1897–1972)
For the Stanford professor of the same name, see Sally Benson (professor).
Sally Benson
Sally Benson, 1941
Born
September 3, 1897 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died
July 19, 1972(1972-07-19) (aged 74) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation
Screenwriter, author
Genre
Fiction, screenwriting
Sally Benson (néeSaraSmith; September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays, and theatre. She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in Junior Miss and her semi-autobiographical stories collected in Meet Me in St. Louis.
SallyBenson (née Sara Smith; September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays, and theatre. She is best known for...
starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, SallyBenson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best...
crime thriller film directed by George Englund from a screenplay by SallyBenson, based on the 1962 play of the same name by Monte Doyle. The film stars...
Clare Boothe Luce, and the screenplay was written by Oscar Millard and SallyBenson. It was directed by Henry Koster. It was nominated for Academy Awards...
respected writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Ann Beattie, SallyBenson, Maeve Brennan, Truman Capote, Rachel Carson, John Cheever, Roald Dahl...
Joseph F. Biroc, George Sidney, John McSweeney Jr., Jack Cummings, SallyBenson: Movies & TV". Amazon.com. August 2000. Retrieved May 21, 2013. "Cajun...
which she played the title role. The series was based on stories by SallyBenson. Sponsored by Procter & Gamble, Junior Miss was directed by Gordon Hughes...
rights to the book, when the novelist and the selected screenwriter SallyBenson did not get along; Mills grew too old for the part before the project...
Vadera Yuan Yang United States Stacey Abrams Sam Altman Anne Applebaum SallyBenson Albert Bourla Tarun Chhabra Brian Deese Jen Easterly Elizabeth Economy...
the project (while retaining film rights), when Smith and screenwriter SallyBenson did not get along. Mills grew too old for the part before the project...
Meet Me in St. Louis Irving Brecher & Fred F. Finklehoffe The novel by SallyBenson 1945 (18th) The Lost Weekend Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder The novel...
film, directed by Henry Koster and with a screenplay by John Furia and SallyBenson. Based loosely on Deckers' life to that point in time, it stars Debbie...
semi-autobiographical stories by SallyBenson first published in The New Yorker. Between 1939 and the end of 1941, the prolific Benson published 99 stories in...
Hill in the television series Benson. McWilliams had also appeared in nine episodes of its parent-series Soap, as Sally. She was a regular on the CBS...
Walker and Clay Warnick, with a libretto credited to Albert Barker and SallyBenson, "with gratitude to W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan." The original...