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Donald McGill Marshman Jr. (December 21, 1922 – September 17, 2015) credited as D. M. Marshman, was an American screenwriter known mainly for his contribution to the film script for Sunset Boulevard.
Sep 21, 2015 · D.M. Marshman Jr., the forgotten third man behind the Oscar-winning screenplay for Billy Wilder’s classic Hollywood-set drama Sunset Blvd., has died. He was 92.
D.M. Marshman Jr. was born on 21 December 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Sunset Boulevard (1950), Taxi (1953) and Second Chance (1953). He was married to Ann Chase Lane. He died on 17 September 2015 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
- Writer
- December 21, 1922
- D.M. Marshman Jr.
- September 17, 2015
D.M. Marshman Jr. was born on December 21, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Sunset Boulevard (1950), Taxi (1953) and Second Chance (1953). He was married to Ann Chase Lane. He died on September 17, 2015 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
- December 21, 1922
- September 17, 2015
Jan 22, 2017 · Donald McGill Marshman, Jr., or “Mac” as he was called by Wilder and Brackett, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 21, 1922, the son of a trial lawyer, and graduated from Yale, where he received his B.A. in the Class of 1945.
Sep 17, 2015 · Biography. While Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder were working on the screenplay for "Sunset Blvd." (1950), they feared that their writing had gone stale. They asked D.M. Marshman, Jr., an influential film critic for Life magazine to join their team.
In August 1948, D. M. Marshman Jr., formerly a writer for Life, was hired to help develop the storyline after Wilder and Brackett were impressed by a critique he provided of their film The Emperor Waltz (1948).
