{{short description|American screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Ann Marcus | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Dorothy Ann Goldstone | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|08|22}} | birth_place = Little Falls, New York, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|12|3|1921|08|22}} | death_place = Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States | years_active = | spouse = Ellis Marcus (11 June 1944 – 23 June 1990; 3 children) | known_for = }}
'''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''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546100 ''For Heaven's Sake''], imdb.com; accessed December 8, 2014.</ref>
==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'' *''One Life to Live'' *''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.<ref name="obituary"/>
==Family== She and her husband, Ellis Marcus, also a television writer, had three children.<ref name="obituary"/>
==Death== On December 3, 2014, Ann Marcus died in Sherman Oaks, California at the age of 93, from bladder cancer.<ref name="obituary">[https://web.archive.org/web/20141208165003/http://deadline.com/2014/12/ann-marcus-dies-mary-hartman-writer-1201309811/ Notice of death of Ann Marcus], deadline.com; accessed December 8, 2014.</ref>
==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.<ref>{{emmytvlegends name|ann-marcus}}</ref> Marcus was also presented with the Morgan Cox Award for distinguished service to the WGA in 2000.<ref name="obituary"/>
==Head Writing Tenure== {{s-start}} {{succession box | before=Gabrielle Upton | title=Head Writer of ''Search for Tomorrow'' | years= November 1974 - July 1975 | after=Peggy O’Shea }} |- {{succession box | before=Pat Falken Smith | title=Head Writer of ''Days of Our Lives'' | years=April 20, 1977 - February 26, 1979 | after=Elizabeth Harrower }} |- {{succession box | before= Jean Halloway | title=Head Writer of ''Love of Life'' | years= 1979 - February 1, 1980 | after= series ended }} |- {{succession box |before = Pat Falken Smith<br>Norma Monty | title=Head Writer of ''General Hospital'' (with Norma Monty) | years= January 1987- August 1988 | after= H. Wesley Kenney (WGA strike) }} |- {{succession box| before=H. Wesley Kenney (WGA strike)| title=Head Writer of ''General Hospital'' (with Norma Monty)| after=Pat Falken Smith| years= August 1988 - December 1988 }} {{s-end}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== *{{IMDb name|0546068}} *[http://www.caucus.org/archives/96fal_truth.html The Caucus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404145850/http://www.caucus.org/archives/96fal_truth.html |date=2009-04-04 }}, *[http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-31-2006/0004463100&EDATE= PRNewsWire] *[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/arts/television/ann-marcus-writer-for-mary-hartman-dies-at-93.html New York Times obituary]
== External links == * {{IMDb name|0546068}} * {{emmytvlegends name|ann-marcus}} {{Authority control}}
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