Marion Rothman

{{short description|American film editor}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|5|17|1928|7|3}}

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| occupation = Film editor

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Marion Rothman was an American film editor active from the 1960s through the 1990s.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-scorsese-jason-reitman-reveal-664559|title=Top Directors Reveal How Female Film Editors Shaped Their Movies|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=11 December 2013 |language=en|access-date=2019-04-05}} She is best known for her work on two 1970s Planet of the Apes movies, as well as Mystic Pizza and Christine.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5tCfQwmHIq0C&q=%22marion+rothman%22+film+editor&pg=PA45|title=Women Who Run the Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood|last=Gregory|first=Mollie|date=2003|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312316341|language=en}} 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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyCkCgAAQBAJ&q=%22marion+rothman%22+film+editor&pg=PT212|title=FilmCraft: Editing|last=Chang|first=Justin|date=2012-01-16|publisher=Octopus Books|isbn=9781908150684|language=en}}

Selected filmography

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! Director

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1968

| The Boston Strangler

|rowspan=2| Richard Fleischer

|First collaboration with Richard Fleischer

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1969

| Che!

|Second collaboration with Richard Fleischer

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1970

| Beneath the Planet of the Apes

|Ted Post

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| {{center|{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGAGIDvwncYC&q=%22marion+rothman%22+film+editor&pg=PA215|title=Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race and Politics in the Films and Television Series|last=Greene|first=Eric|date=1996|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786400874|language=en}}}}

rowspan=2| 1971

| Billy Jack

|Tom Laughlin

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| {{center|{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/122941168/?terms=%22marion+rothman%22+editor|title=4 May 1994, Page 24 - The Age at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-04-05}}}}

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

|Don Taylor

|First collaboration with Don Taylor

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1972

| Play It Again, Sam

|Herbert Ross

|First collaboration with Herbert Ross

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rowspan=2| 1973

| Tom Sawyer

|Don Taylor

|Second collaboration with Don Taylor

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Ash Wednesday

|Larry Peerce

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1975

| Funny Lady

|Herbert Ross

|Second collaboration with Herbert Ross

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rowspan=2| 1976

| Lipstick

|Lamont Johnson

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| {{center|{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1975/film/reviews/lipstick-1200423694/|title=Lipstick|date=1976-01-01|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2019-04-05}}}}

Baby Blue Marine

|John D. Hancock

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rowspan=2| 1977

| The Island of Dr. Moreau

|Don Taylor

|Third collaboration with Don Taylor

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Orca

|Michael Anderson

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1978

| Comes a Horseman

|rowspan=2| Alan J. Pakula

|First collaboration with Alan J. Pakula

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1979

| Starting Over

|Second collaboration with Alan J. Pakula

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1981

| All Night Long

|Jean-Claude Tramont

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1983

| Christine

|rowspan=2| John Carpenter

|First collaboration with John Carpenter

| {{center|{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qy-SCgAAQBAJ&q=%22marion+rothman%22+film+editor&pg=PA111|title=The Films of John Carpenter|last=Muir|first=John Kenneth|date=2015-09-15|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786493487|language=en}}}}

1984

| Starman

|Second collaboration with John Carpenter

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1986

| Club Paradise

|Harold Ramis

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| {{center|{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-11-ca-20153-story.html|title=MOVIE REVIEW : THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE AT THIS PARTICULAR 'CLUB'|date=1986-07-11|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2019-04-05|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}}}

1988

| Mystic Pizza

|rowspan=2| Donald Petrie

|First collaboration with Donald Petrie

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1990

| Opportunity Knocks

|Second collaboration with Donald Petrie

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1992

| Memoirs of an Invisible Man

|John Carpenter

|Third collaboration with John Carpenter

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1959

| The Diary of Anne Frank

|George Stevens

|Assistant film editor

|{{center|Uncredited}}

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! Film

! Director

1960

| The Wild Ride

|Harvey Berman

;TV movies

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! Film

! Director

1975

| My Father's House

|Alex Segal

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! Film

! Director

1999

| Velocity

|{{ubl|David Wolfe|David Blass}}

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