Sally Winters (also known as Sally McGowan) was an American screenwriter known for cranking out B movie Westerns in the late 1920s with her then-partner, director J.P. McGowan. She also appeared in a handful of movies as an actress.

Personal life

During the mid-1920s, she dated Worthy Butts, a well-known Hollywood automobile agent; the pair were charged with "staging an orgy" by neighbors who disliked their antics. She later filed a lawsuit against

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and Meteor Productions, alleging that McGowan and Winters had lived together for five years beginning in 1926 but that he had not lived up to his promise to marry her. During the suit, she disclosed that McGowan had paid her $60 a week to write scenarios he'd direct, and that he failed to pay her.

Selected filmography

* '' The Oklahoma Sheriff'' (1930) * '' Near the Rainbow's End'' (1930) * '' The Canyon of Missing Men'' (1930) * '' Western Honor'' (1930) * '' The Hunted Men'' (1930) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1930) * '' Call of the Desert'' (1930) * ''

Covered Wagon Trails ''Covered Wagon Trails'' is a 1940 American Western (genre), Western film directed by Raymond K. Johnson, starring Jack Randall (actor), Jack Randall, Sally Cairns and Lafe McKee. Plot When Jack Cameron's brother, Ed, is killed on his way to ...

'' (1930) * '' Breezy Bill'' (1930) * '' The Parting of the Trails'' (1930) * '' O'Malley Rides Alone'' (1930) * '' A Texas Cowboy'' (1929) * '' The Man from Nevada'' (1929) * '' 'Neath Western Skies'' (1929) * '' Code of the West'' (1929) * '' Pioneers of the West'' (1929) * '' The Lone Horseman'' (1929) * ''

The Oklahoma Kid ''The Oklahoma Kid'' is a 1939 Western film starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. The film was directed for Warner Bros. by Lloyd Bacon. Cagney plays an adventurous gunslinger in a broad-brimmed cowboy hat while Bogart portrays his bl ...

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The Cowboy and the Outlaw ''The Cowboy and the Outlaw'' is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by J. P. McGowan and starring Bob Steele, Edna Aslin and Bud Osborne. It was produced as an independent second feature on Poverty Row.Pitts, p. 396. It was origina ...

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'' (1929) * '' Riders of the Rio Grande'' (1929) * '' The Phantom Rider'' (1929) * '' Three Live Ghosts'' (1929) * '' The Fighting Terror'' (1929) * '' The Man from Nevada'' (1929) * '' The Law of the Plains'' (1929) * '' The Last Round-up'' (1929) * '' Headin' Westward'' (1929) * '' Texas Tommy'' (1928) * '' Law of the Mounted'' (1928) * ''

Manhattan Cowboy ''Manhattan Cowboy'' is a 1928 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Bob Custer, Lafe McKee and Mary Mayberry.McGowan p.169 Cast * Bob Custer as Jack Steel * Lafe McKee as John Steel ...

'' (1928) * '' On the Divide'' (1928)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Winters, Sally American women screenwriters Year of birth missing Year of death missing