Sarah Y. Mason

Sarah Y. Mason (March 31, 1896 – November 28, 1980) was an American screenwriter and script supervisor.[1]

Contents

1 Biography 2 Partial filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography[edit] Mason was born Sarah Yeiser Mason in Pima, Arizona. She and her husband Victor Heerman
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 who was previously married to record producer Lester Koenig;[4] and Victor, Jr., a successful breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.[5] The Academy Award for Little Women remains with the family. Partial filmography[edit]

Held In Trust
Held In Trust (1920) (scenario) Cradle Snatchers
Cradle Snatchers (1927) (scenario) Little Women (1933) (screenplay) The Age of Innocence (1934) (screenplay) Imitation of Life (1934) (uncredited) The Little Minister (1934) (screenplay) Break of Hearts
Break of Hearts (1935) (screen play) Magnificent Obsession (1935) (screenplay) Stella Dallas (1937) (screenplay) Golden Boy (1939) (screenplay) Pride and Prejudice (1940) (uncredited) Meet Me in St. Louis: 1944 (uncredited) Little Women (1949) (screenplay) A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941) (uncredited) Magnificent Obsession (1954) (based upon the screenplay by)

References[edit]

^ 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 ^ "Biography: Catharine Aanliss Heerman(February 5, 1922 - April 4, 2007) by John Koenig November 24, 2007 ^ Daily Racing Forum: "Heerman, prominent bloodstock agent, dies at 89" July 11, 2014

External links[edit]

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Sarah Y. Mason on IMDb Sarah Y. Mason
Sarah Y. Mason at the Women Film Pioneers Project Sarah Y. Mason
Sarah Y. Mason at Find a Grave

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1928–1950

Benjamin Glazer (1928) Hanns Kräly (1929) Frances Marion
Frances Marion (1930) Howard Estabrook
Howard Estabrook (1931) Edwin J. Burke (1932) Victor Heerman
Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason
Sarah Y. Mason (1933) Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin (1934) Dudley Nichols (1935) Pierre Collings
Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine
Norman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard Shaw (1938) Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard (1939) Donald Ogden Stewart
Donald Ogden Stewart (1940) Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941) George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis (1942) Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard E. Koch (1943) Frank Butler, and Frank Cavett (1944) Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1945) Robert Sherwood (1946) George Seaton
George Seaton (1947) John Huston
John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)