Remembering Marcia Nasatir (1926-2021)

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

The first female VP at a major Hollywood studio (UA in the 1970s), who died on August 3 at 95, spoke with Scott Feinberg in 2013 about working on Madison Ave. in the 1960s, transitioning from being a top literary agent to a top production executive and lessons she learned while helping to make ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ ‘Rocky,’ ‘Carrie,’ ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘Coming Home,’ ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ‘The Big Chill’ and other classics. (Nasatir’s friend and former Bantam Books colleague Esther Margolis can briefly be heard during the conversation.) Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 397th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood
0:13.6	reporters awards podcast.
0:15.6	I'm the host Scott Feinberg and today's episode is a tribute to Martian Nassiter, a Hollywood
0:21.1	trailblazer who died last Tuesday at the age of 95.
0:26.0	Nassiter was a top literary agent who, back in 1974, became the first woman to reach
0:31.6	the level of vice president at a major Hollywood studio.
0:35.3	Other than Mary Pickford, the movie star who decades earlier co-founded and co-ran the
0:39.9	same studio, United Artists.
0:42.9	Nassiter was instrumental in the development of UAs, One Floor the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky,
0:47.7	Carrie, Annie Hall, Coming Home, and Apocalypse Now.
0:51.8	Before becoming an independent producer behind films such as Hamburger Hill, Ironweed,
0:56.9	and The Big Chill.
0:58.5	She was also a dear friend, ball-buster, and surrogate Jewish grandma of mine.
1:04.4	I first became aware of Marsha through a YouTube series that cracked me up, called Real
1:08.6	Geezers, on which she and her dear friend and fellow Academy member Lorenzo Semple Jr.,
1:13.9	a great writer, bickered whittily like the muppets up in the balcony about new movies
1:19.3	that they had just seen.
1:21.5	Then on May 4, 2013, while covering something at the Academy, I spotted Marsha and told
1:27.3	her I was a reporter and a fan, and would love to interview her.
1:31.3	Never shrinking violet, she consented, and I ended up going over to her house in Santa
1:35.5	Monica on December 4, 2013 to record the life and career encompassing interview that
1:41.1	you are about to hear.
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