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Sally Winters (also known as Sally McGowan) was an American screenwriter known for cranking out B movie Westerns in the late 1920s with her then-partner, director
J.P. McGowan John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directo ...
. She also appeared in a handful of movies as an actress.


Personal life

During the mid-1920s, she dated Worthy Butts, a well-known Hollywood automobile agent; the pair were charged with "staging an orgy" by neighbors who disliked their antics. She later filed a lawsuit against McGowan and Meteor Productions, alleging that McGowan and Winters had lived together for five years beginning in 1926 but that he had not lived up to his promise to marry her. During the suit, she disclosed that McGowan had paid her $60 a week to write scenarios he'd direct, and that he failed to pay her.


Selected filmography

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The Oklahoma Sheriff ''The Oklahoma Sheriff'' is a 1930 independent Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Bob Steele. Plot The film's plot centers around an Oklahoma sheriff who dislikes the man his daughter is set to marry. After a crooked deputy ...
'' (1930) * ''
Near the Rainbow's End ''Near the Rainbow's End'' is a 1930 American Western film directed by J. P. McGowan for Tiffany Productions. The film stars Bob Steele in his talking picture debut as a singing cowboy, Lafe McKee and Al Ferguson and was commercially released i ...
'' (1930) * ''
The Canyon of Missing Men ''The Canyon of Missing Men'' is a 1930 American silent Western film directed by J. P. McGowan and starring Tom Tyler, Sheila Bromley and Bud Osborne.Pitts, p. 396. Some versions of the film were released with added sound effects. Synopsis Da ...
'' (1930) * '' Western Honor'' (1930) * '' The Hunted Men'' (1930) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1930) * ''
Call of the Desert ''Call of the Desert'' is a 1930 American silent Western film directed by J. P. McGowan and starring Tom Tyler, Sheila Bromley and Bud Osborne.Pitts, p. 396. Some versions of the film were released with added sound effects. Cast * Tom Tyler a ...
'' (1930) * ''
Covered Wagon Trails ''Covered Wagon Trails'' is a 1940 American Western film directed by Raymond K. Johnson, starring Jack Randall, Sally Cairns and Lafe McKee. Cast * Jack Randall as Jack Cameron * Sally Cairns as Carol Bradford * Lafe McKee as John Bradfo ...
'' (1930) * ''
Breezy Bill ''Breezy Bill'' is a 1930 American western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Bob Steele, Edna Aslin and Bud Osborne. It was produced as an independent second feature on Poverty Row.Pitts p.398 Cast * Bob Steele as Breezy Bill * Edn ...
'' (1930) * '' The Parting of the Trails'' (1930) * '' O'Malley Rides Alone'' (1930) * ''
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'' (1929) * '' The Man from Nevada'' (1929) * '' 'Neath Western Skies'' (1929) * '' Code of the West'' (1929) * '' Pioneers of the West'' (1929) * '' The Lone Horseman'' (1929) * ''
The Oklahoma Kid ''The Oklahoma Kid'' is a 1939 Western film starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. The film was directed for Warner Bros. by Lloyd Bacon. Cagney plays an adventurous gunslinger in a broad-brimmed cowboy hat while Bogart portrays his blac ...
'' (1929) * ''
The Cowboy and the Outlaw ''The Cowboy and the Outlaw'' is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by J. P. McGowan and starring Bob Steele, Edna Aslin and Bud Osborne. It was produced as an independent second feature on Poverty Row.Pitts, p. 396. It was original ...
'' (1929) * ''
The Invaders ''The Invaders'' is an American science-fiction television series created by Larry Cohen that aired on ABC for two seasons, from 1967 to 1968. Roy Thinnes stars as David Vincent, who after stumbling across evidence of an in-progress invas ...
'' (1929) * '' Riders of the Rio Grande'' (1929) * '' The Phantom Rider'' (1929) * ''
Three Live Ghosts ''Three Live Ghosts'' is a novel by Frederic Isham published in 1918. He adapted it into the 1920 Broadway play of the same name produced by Max Marcin. There were also three film adaptations: * ''Three Live Ghosts'' (1922 film), a British com ...
'' (1929) * '' The Fighting Terror'' (1929) * '' The Man from Nevada'' (1929) * '' The Law of the Plains'' (1929) * '' The Last Round-up'' (1929) * '' Headin' Westward'' (1929) * '' Texas Tommy'' (1928) * '' Law of the Mounted'' (1928) * '' Manhattan Cowboy'' (1928) * '' On the Divide'' (1928)


References

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