Also credited on1 work
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In the literature7 passages
- Josephine by Sally Benson (opened on January 8, 1953, at the Playhouse, Wilmington, Delaware, and closed on February 7, 1953, at the Selwyn Theatre, Chicago, Illinois)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- With so little plot, scriptwriter Sally Benson concentrated on character relationships, as indeed she did in the New Yorker stories that were the source of MGM's Meet Me in St. Louis, like Seventeen a piece of smalltown, period Americana. So librettist and novelist should get along. Once a canonical figure in American literature and now n…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
- So we got to work on number five. It was a charming Sally Benson script which was based on the novel, Mother Carey’s Chickens. The movie’s tentative title was City People because it concerned a family from the city that goes to live in the country. One evening, Walt called me at home, a rare occurrence. Dick and I had just completed a pre…ebooks/Sherman, Robert B_/Moose - Robert B. Sherman.txt
- Sally Benson did her early professional writing on the venerable New Yorker Magazine. Dick and I met her at the Disney studios when she had more than thirty years of success behind her as a writer for magazines, books, the theater and the screen. Walt had hired her to write a screen adaptation of Mother Carrie’s Chickens, a completely Ame…ebooks/Sherman, Robert B_/Moose - Robert B. Sherman.txt
- Tommie Wilck, Walt’s terrific private secretary and our good friend, called to inform us we were invited to lunch with Walt and Sally Benson in the Coral Room at twelve-fifteen. We had learned from experience that when Walt was hot on a subject, one had to let him expound uninterrupted. He didn’t tolerate interruptions at these moments. T…ebooks/Sherman, Robert B_/Moose - Robert B. Sherman.txt
- SALLY BENSON, 71, wnter, died July 19, 1972 in Woodland Hills, Calif, after a long illness. Her short stories about Judy Graves became the popular "Junior Miss" on Bdwy, radio, and She adapted Tarkington's "Seventeen" for Bdwy, and based her play "The Young and the Beautiful" on F. Scott Fitzgerald stories. She also wrote many screenplays…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
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