---
name: "Sarah Y. Mason"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sarah-y-mason"
fi1m_id: "sarah-y-mason"
imdb_id: "nm0556945"
tmdb_id: 1012037
wikidata_id: "Q2224530"
roles: ["Additional writing"]
born: "31 March 1896"
died: "28 November 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T03:31:33.600938+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sarah Y. Mason

## Identity

Sarah Y. Mason

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sarah-y-mason
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sarah-y-mason
- **IMDb ID:** nm0556945
- **TMDB ID:** 1012037
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2224530
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Y._Mason, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2224530, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0556945/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1012037

Additional writing. Born 31 March 1896 in Pima, Arizona, USA. Died 28 November 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Additional writing
- **Born:** 31 March 1896, Pima, Arizona, USA
- **Died:** 28 November 1980
- **Active:** 1929–1944
- **Also known as:** Sarah Yeiser Mason, Sara Y. Mason
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 writing, 2 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 60 (1), 1930s 80 (1), 1940s 87 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Y._Mason, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2224530, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0556945/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1012037

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Stella Dallas*](https://film.one/film/stella-dallas.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Sarah Y. Mason was an American screenwriter. Born Sarah Yeiser Mason on 31 March 1896 in Pima, Arizona, she began working in Hollywood in the silent era and became one of the first to specialise in script supervision and continuity as the industry moved to sound films.

She frequently collaborated with her husband, writer and director Victor Heerman, whom she married in 1921. Together they adapted *Little Women* (1933) for the screen, winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Their other credits include the screenplay for *Stella Dallas* (1937). Mason also contributed to *The Broadway Melody* (1929) and later adaptations such as *Little Women* (1949) and *Magnificent Obsession* (1954). She died in Los Angeles on 28 November 1980.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, m.imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Wrote (1)

- *Stella Dallas* (1937), Fi1m 80, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/stella-dallas.md)

### Crew (2) — the average rests on these

- *Meet Me in St. Louis* (1944), Fi1m 87, Additional Writing — [page](https://film.one/film/meet-me-in-st-louis.md)
- *The Broadway Melody* (1929), Fi1m 60, Continuity — [page](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Magnificent Obsession* (1954), as Other
- *Little Women* (1949), Screenplay
- *Meet Me in St. Louis* (1944), as Additional Writing — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/meet-me-in-st-louis.md)
- *Golden Boy* (1939), Screenplay
- *Stella Dallas* (1937), Screenplay — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/stella-dallas.md)
- *Magnificent Obsession* (1935), Screenplay
- *Break of Hearts* (1935), Screenplay
- *The Little Minister* (1934), Screenplay
- *The Age of Innocence* (1934), Screenplay
- *Little Women* (1933), Screenplay
- *Chance at Heaven* (1933), Screenplay
- *The Age of Consent* (1932), Screenplay
- *Shopworn* (1932), Story
- *The Man in Possession* (1931), Writer, Adaptation, Additional Dialogue
- *Love in the Rough* (1930), Adaptation, Writer
- *The Girl Said No* (1930), Writer
- *They Learned About Women* (1930), Scenario Writer, Screenplay
- *The Broadway Melody* (1929), as Continuity — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md)
- *Cradle Snatchers* (1927), Writer
- *Backstage* (1927), Story
- *One Hour of Love* (1927), Writer
- *Fools of Fashion* (1926), Writer
- *Modern Matrimony* (1923), Scenario Writer
- *Love Is an Awful Thing* (1922), Scenario Writer
- *The Girl from Nowhere* (1921), Screenplay
- *The Chicken in the Case* (1921), Scenario Writer
- *A Divorce of Convenience* (1921), Screenplay
- *The Poor Simp* (1920), Writer
- *Held in Trust* (1920), Writer
- *Heart of Twenty* (1920), Story
- *Arizona* (1918), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1934: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Little Women*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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