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Oct 1, 2018 · Marian Rees, the two-time Emmy-winning producer and television pioneer who was known for tackling socially relevant issues in her telefilms, has died. She was 90. Rees died Aug. 26 on...
Oct 1, 2018 · Marian Rees, who won a pair of Emmy Awards during a pioneering 50-year producing career and was an officer at the TV Academy, Women in Film and the PGA, has died. She was 90.
Oct 1, 2018 · Emmy Award winning producer Marian Rees, best known for films such as “Decoration Day” and “Miss Rose White,” died August 26 in Bainbridge Island, Wash. She was 90.
Marian Rees was born on 31 October 1927 in Le Mars, Iowa, USA. She was a producer and executive, known for Love Is Never Silent (1985), Miss Rose White (1992) and Decoration Day (1990). She died on 26 August 2018 in Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA.
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- Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Marian Rees, 51BA, personifies a rare Hollywood success story: not the beauty-discovered-in-malt-shop myth, but the hard-earned success of an intelligent, competent, and motivated woman who worked her way up from receptionist to award-winning producer in an industry not that conscientious about providing executive opportunities for women.
MARIAN JEAN REES. Oct. 31, 1927 – Aug. 26, 2018. Kind and generous, wise and gracious with a tremendous zest for life through all her 90 years, Marian Rees passed away peacefully at home.
We’re sad to learn that producer Marian Rees has passed away at the age of 90. She began her career working on Lux Video Theatre and An Evening with Fred Astaire before going on to work with Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear at Tandem Productions, associate producing the pilots of All in the Family and Sanford and Son.
