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Up for sale a RARE! "Young and Innocent" Gerald Savory Hand Written 2 Page Letter Dated 1939. 

November 1909 – 9 February 1996) was an English writer and television producer specialising in

comedies. The son of Kenneth Douglas Savory and actress Grace Lane (1877–1956), he

was educated at Bradfield College and

worked as a stockbroker's clerk before turning to the stage (Hull Repertory Theatre

Company 1931–33), first as an actor then a writer. His

play George and Margaret,

written while out of work as an actor, ran for two years at Wyndham's Theatre and

a year at the Piccadilly. It then

transferred to Broadway, where it ran for

86 performances, and was later filmed. His earliest

work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937).

He lived in the USA in the 1940s and 50s writing for film and television, and

became an American citizen. After returning to England in the mid 1950s he

became a writer, producer and production manager for Granada Television, producing five episodes of ITV Play of the Week;

adapting Saki, J.B. Priestley, Noël Coward and Tennessee Williams for

television. He then joined BBC Television, first as Head of Serials, then Head of Plays. He

produced five episodes of the unsuccessful series Churchill's People (1975–76)

and six of the eight episodes of Love in a

Cold Climate (1980) for Thames Television. Savory was married four times but had no

children other than a stepson by his fourth wife. His first marriage, to

writer Teo Dunbar, ended in

divorce. In 1950, he married American actress Althea Murphy (1916–1952), who

died of leukemia in 1952. In 1953, he married actress Annette Carell, who died by suicide in 1967. He was survived

by his fourth wife, actress Sheila Brennan, whom he married in 1970. He died in

England on 9 February 1996.