13 Facts About Marcia Nasatir

Marcia Nasatir was an American film producer and studio executive.

Marcia Nasatir was the first female vice-president of a major movie studio, when she became a vice-president at United Artists in 1974.

Marcia Nasatir's parents were both Russian Jewish immigrants; her father was in the garment trade.

Marcia Nasatir attended Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin, but did not earn a degree at either school.

Marcia Nasatir's sister Rose Spector was a judge, and the first woman elected to the Texas Supreme Court.

Marcia Nasatir was a divorced mother of two young sons in 1955, when she took a secretarial job with Grey Advertising in New York.

Marcia Nasatir worked as an editor at Dell Publishing and Bantam Books, and as a literary agent with the Ziegler Diskant Agency, where she represented screenwriters including Robert Towne and William Goldman.

Marcia Nasatir became a story editor at United Artists in 1974, with the title of vice-president of West Coast Development.

Marcia Nasatir was the first female vice-president of a major film studio.

At Carson Entertainment and later as an independent producer, Marcia Nasatir was one of the executive producers of The Big Chill, Vertical Limit, Death Defying Acts, and the documentary Elle, and a producer of Hamburger Hill and Ironweed.

In 2008, Marcia Nasatir found a new audience on YouTube, in Reel Geezers, a film criticism web series, co-starring with her friend, screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Marcia Nasatir died in 2021, aged 95 years, in Woodland Hills, California.

Marcia Nasatir's papers are archived in the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.