Mason was born Sarah Yeiser Mason in
Pima, Arizona. She and her husband
Victor Heerman married in 1921 and 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. She left no known records or documentation of her life or work. All the knowledge acquired about her is gathered though the records her husband left. 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). 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. 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; and Victor, Jr., a successful breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. The Academy Award for
Little Women remains with the family. ==Partial filmography==