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Cause of death
  
Bladder cancer

Role
  
Television writer

Name
  
Ann Marcus

Education
  
Western College for Women

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Full Name
  
Dorothy Ann Goldstone

Born
  
August 22, 1921 (
1921-08-22
)
Little Falls, New York, USA

Died
  
December 3, 2014, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States

Spouse
  
Ellis Marcus (m. 1944–1990)

Siblings
  
Tracey Roberts, Ray Goldstone

TV shows
  
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts

Similar People
  
Gail Parent, Claudia Lamb, Phil Bruns, Greg Mullavey, Louise Lasser

The Writer Speaks: Ann Marcus


Ann Marcus (August 22, 1921 – December 3, 2014) was an Emmy Award-winning American television writer (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) and film producer.

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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.

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 1992-94. She published her memoir, Whistling Girl in 1999.

    Family

    She and her husband, Ellis Marcus, also a television writer, had three children.

    Death

    On December 3, 2014, Ann Marcus died in Sherman Oaks, California at the age of 93, from undisclosed causes.

    Awards and nominations

    Nominated for multiple Daytime Emmys, and Primetime Primetime Emmys. Her first Daytime Emmy nomination was in 1978 for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Marcus was also presented with the Morgan Cox Award for distinguished service to the WGA in 2000.

    References

    Ann Marcus Wikipedia