Ann Marcus
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Ann Marcus (August 22, 1921 – December 3, 2014) was an American television writer and film producer.
She graduated from Western College for Women, worked for the New York Daily News and Life, where she worked with famed photographers such as Alfred Eisenstadt. In 2007, she was executive producer of the independent feature film, For Heaven's Sake.[1]
Television writing credits
- Lassie
- The Hathaways
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- The Debbie Reynolds Show
- Gentle Ben
- Peyton Place
- General Hospital
- Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
- Search for Tomorrow
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Fernwood 2-Nite
- All That Glitters
- Julie Farr, M.D.
- Days of Our Lives
- Love of Life
- Falcon Crest
- Knots Landing
- Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac
- Flamingo Road
- L.A.T.E.R: The Life And Times of Eddie Roberts
Other
Marcus was elected to the board of directors of the WGAe seven times and served as Secretary/treasurer from 1992 to 1994. She published her memoir, Whistling Girl in 1999.[2]
Family
She and her husband, Ellis Marcus, also a television writer, had three children.[2]
Death
On December 3, 2014, Ann Marcus died in Sherman Oaks, California at the age of 93, from bladder cancer.[2]
Awards and nominations
Nominated for multiple Daytime Emmys and Primetime Emmys. Her first Daytime Emmy nomination was in 1978 for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.[3] Marcus was also presented with the Morgan Cox Award for distinguished service to the WGA in 2000.[2]
Head Writing Tenure
References
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- ↑ For Heaven's Sake, imdb.com; accessed December 8, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d Notice of death of Ann Marcus, deadline.com; accessed December 8, 2014.
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- PRNewsWire
- New York Times obituary
External links
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- 1921 births
- 2014 deaths
- American soap opera writers
- Miami University alumni
- Western College for Women alumni
- Writers from Greater Los Angeles
- People from Little Falls, New York
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- Deaths from bladder cancer in California
- Screenwriters from California
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women