When Mary Loos came back to Hollywood, she met and married Richard Sale, a screenwriter and novelist. She said, "It was a great writing team but never a great marriage."
They wrote 17 successful motion pictures--among them "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes," "The Wackiest Ship in the Army," and "Please Don't Eat the Daisies"--and were on the crest of Hollywood aristocracy for more than 20 years.
"When we split up, I took our son, Edward, and bought this house in Santa Monica Canyon. I didn't know what I would do," Loos said.