Marion Rothman

Marion Rothman
Born	(1928-07-03)July 3, 1928
Died	May 17, 2013(2013-05-17) (aged 84)
Occupation	Film editor

Marion Rothman was an American film editor active from the 1960s through the 1990s. ^[1] She is best known for her work on two 1970s Planet of the Apes movies, as well as Mystic Pizza and Christine . ^[2] She also had a screenwriting credit on the 1960 film The Wild Ride . Her first known assignment was assisting with the cutting of 1959's The Diary of Anne Frank . She served as a mentor for editor Virginia Katz in Los Angeles. ^[3]

Selected filmography

Editor

Year	Film	Director	Notes	Ref.
1968	The Boston Strangler	Richard Fleischer	First collaboration with Richard Fleischer
1969	Che!		Second collaboration with Richard Fleischer
1970	Beneath the Planet of the Apes	Ted Post		[4]
1971	Billy Jack	Tom Laughlin		[5]
	Escape from the Planet of the Apes	Don Taylor	First collaboration with Don Taylor
1972	Play It Again, Sam	Herbert Ross	First collaboration with Herbert Ross
1973	Tom Sawyer	Don Taylor	Second collaboration with Don Taylor
	Ash Wednesday	Larry Peerce
1975	Funny Lady	Herbert Ross	Second collaboration with Herbert Ross
1976	Lipstick	Lamont Johnson		[6]
	Baby Blue Marine	John D. Hancock
1977	The Island of Dr. Moreau	Don Taylor	Third collaboration with Don Taylor
	Orca	Michael Anderson
1978	Comes a Horseman	Alan J. Pakula	First collaboration with Alan J. Pakula
1979	Starting Over		Second collaboration with Alan J. Pakula
1981	All Night Long	Jean-Claude Tramont
1983	Christine	John Carpenter	First collaboration with John Carpenter	[7]
1984	Starman		Second collaboration with John Carpenter
1986	Club Paradise	Harold Ramis		[8]
1988	Mystic Pizza	Donald Petrie	First collaboration with Donald Petrie
1990	Opportunity Knocks		Second collaboration with Donald Petrie
1992	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	John Carpenter	Third collaboration with John Carpenter

Editorial department

Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes
1959	The Diary of Anne Frank	George Stevens	Assistant film editor	Uncredited

Writer

Year	Film	Director
1960	The Wild Ride	Harvey Berman

TV movies

Editor

Year	Film	Director
1975	My Father's House	Alex Segal

Writer

Year	Film	Director
1999	Velocity	David Wolfe David Blass

References

1. "Top Directors Reveal How Female Film Editors Shaped Their Movies". The Hollywood Reporter. 11 December 2013. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
2. Gregory, Mollie (2003). Women Who Run the Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood. Macmillan. ISBN   9780312316341.
3. Chang, Justin (2012-01-16). FilmCraft: Editing. Octopus Books. ISBN   9781908150684.
4. Greene, Eric (1996). Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race and Politics in the Films and Television Series. McFarland. ISBN   9780786400874.
5. "4 May 1994, Page 24 - The Age at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
6. "Lipstick". Variety. 1976-01-01. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
7. Muir, John Kenneth (2015-09-15). The Films of John Carpenter. McFarland. ISBN   9780786493487.
8. "MOVIE REVIEW : THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE AT THIS PARTICULAR 'CLUB'". Los Angeles Times. 1986-07-11. ISSN   0458-3035 . Retrieved 2019-04-05.

External links

• Marion Rothman at IMDb