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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., Forgotten Screenwriter on ‘Sunset Blvd.,’ Dies at 92. He joined the legendary writing team of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and won an Oscar for his first movie script.
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
Sep 17, 2015 · Overview. D.M. Marshman Jr. 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.
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.
D.M. Marshman Jr. was a Time-Life reporter who played bridge with Brackett and Wilder. His credits include only one other film and some television work. multiple sources ; Sunset Blvd. was the last collaboration for Wilder and Brackett, after 14 years of working together.
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).
