Sally Benson was born in St. Louis on September 3 1897. Her family moved to New York, where she spent her formative...
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🎂 Sally Benson - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Sally Benson die, Sally Benson was 75 years old.

Popular As	Sally Benson
Occupation	Writer
Age	75 years old
Zodiac Sign	Virgo
Born	September 3, 1897 (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
Birthday	September 3
Town/City	St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Nationality	USA

🌙 Zodiac

Sally Benson’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Sally Benson was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.

Sally Benson was born in St. Louis on September 3 1897. Her family moved to New York, where she spent her formative years and was educated at the Horace Mann School. At the age of seventeen, she took her first job working at the National City Bank, 'singing into a dictaphone', as she later put it.

Several years and a divorce later, she began to write magazine reviews and published interviews with the rich and famous. Her writing career thus launched, she submitted a short story to The New Yorker in 1930 (under the pen name Esther Evarts), which led to requests for more from the editors.

Her most popular subsequent work consisted of a series of stories about Judy Graves, a gauche adolescent heroine, which appeared under the title "Junior Miss". The stories were collated in a 1941 Book of the Month and then adapted into a comedy play on Broadway, by writers Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields.

A movie version in 1945 was followed by a TV musical and a radio series.Benson's most famous work was Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), originally derived from a series of nostalgic vignettes about the life of a St.

Louis family (incorporating recollections from her own life) spanning the years from 1903 to 1904. They were published in The New Yorker under the title 5135 Kensington Avenue, the street of her birth and early childhood.

For the MGM film version of 1944, Benson was tasked with working on the screenplay. However, her material ended up on the cutting room floor and she ended up being credited only as original author. Some of her other contributions fared rather better, notably her collaborative efforts on Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Shadow of a Doubt (1943), the romantic drama Anna and the King of Siam (1946), and the film noir No Man of Her Own (1950).

Benson also adapted the novel "Seventeen" by Booth Tarkington into a successful Broadway play.In her private life, Benson enjoyed reading, playing harp and piano, and visiting the racetrack. She died in July 1972 at the age of 74.