Marion Rothman

American film editor

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

As editor:

Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Mystic Pizza (1988)
Club Paradise (1986)^[4]
Starman (1984)
Christine (1983)^[5]
All Night Long (1981)
Starting Over (1979)
Comes a Horseman (1978)
Orca (1977)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
Baby Blue Marine (1976)
Lipstick (1976)^[6]
Funny Lady (1975)
Ash Wednesday (1973)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Billy Jack (1971)^[7]
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)^[8]
Che! (1969)
The Boston Strangler (1968)

As writer:

The Wild Ride (1960)

References

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