Sarah Y. Mason | |
|---|---|
 Mason in 1920 | |
| Born | Sarah Yeiser Mason March 31, 1896 |
| Died | November 28, 1980 (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1918–1949 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Sarah Y. Mason (March 31, 1896 – November 28, 1980) was an American screenwriter and script supervisor.[1]
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.
After that success, she and Heerman were the first screenwriters involved in early, never-produced scripts commissioned for what would become MGM's Pride and Prejudice (1940 film).[2] Mason's career is also notable as she was the very first script supervisor in Hollywood, having invented the craft of film continuity when the industry switched from silent film to talkies.[3][4][5]
She and Heerman married in 1921. She died at age 84 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;[6] and Victor, Jr., a successful breeder of thoroughbred racehorses.[7] The Academy Award for Little Women remains with the family.
