Sarah Y. Mason

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Female

Birthday 1896-03-31

Deathday 1980-11-28 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Pima, Arizona, USA

Also Known As Sarah Yeiser Mason, Sara Y. Mason

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, Catharine Anliss Heerman, an artist and teacher of art in Southern California who was previously married to record producer Lester Koenig; and Victor, Jr., a successful breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses. The Academy Award for Little Women remains with the family.

Known For

Writer

1949
Little Women

as Screenplay

1939
Golden Boy

as Screenplay

1937
Stella Dallas

as Screenplay

1935
Magnificent Obsession

as Screenplay

1935
Break of Hearts

as Screenplay

1934
The Little Minister

as Screenplay

1934
The Age of Innocence

as Screenplay

1933
Little Women

as Screenplay

1933
Chance at Heaven

as Screenplay

1932
The Age of Consent

as Screenplay

1932
Shopworn

as Story

1931
1931
The Man in Possession

as Adaptation

1930
They Learned About Women

as Scenario Writer

1930
Love in the Rough

as Adaptation

1930
1930
1927
1927
Backstage

as Story

1926
1921
The Girl from Nowhere

as Screenplay

1921
1920
1918
Arizona

as Writer

Crew

1931
The Man in Possession

as Additional Dialogue

Director

1929
The Broadway Melody

as Continuity