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.
Rees began her career in Hollywood as a receptionist for NBC before joining Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin’s company, Tandem Productions in 1955. There, she worked as an associate producer on several projects including a television tribute to Frank Sinatra, the Emmy Award-winning special “An Evening with Fred Astaire” and the pilots for both “All in the Family” and “Sanford & Son.”
After 17 years, Rees left Tandem Productions for Tomorrow Entertainment and eventually the Nrw company where she became vice president and worked as the executive producer for “Angel Dusted” and “The Marva Collins Story,” starring Cicely Tyson. In 1981, Rees left everything behind in order to fund her own production company, Marian Rees Associates, with her partner Hopkins.
After mortgaging her house to fund the company’s productions,...
Rees began her career in Hollywood as a receptionist for NBC before joining Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin’s company, Tandem Productions in 1955. There, she worked as an associate producer on several projects including a television tribute to Frank Sinatra, the Emmy Award-winning special “An Evening with Fred Astaire” and the pilots for both “All in the Family” and “Sanford & Son.”
After 17 years, Rees left Tandem Productions for Tomorrow Entertainment and eventually the Nrw company where she became vice president and worked as the executive producer for “Angel Dusted” and “The Marva Collins Story,” starring Cicely Tyson. In 1981, Rees left everything behind in order to fund her own production company, Marian Rees Associates, with her partner Hopkins.
After mortgaging her house to fund the company’s productions,...
- 10/1/2018
- by Nate Nickolai
- Variety Film + TV
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. She died August 26 in Bainbridge Island, Wa.
Born on October 31, 1927, in Le Mars, Ia, Rees moved to Los Angeles in the early 1950s. In 1955, she joined Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin’s Tandem Productions and was associate producer on TV tributes to Frank Sinatra and Ethel Barrymore and the Emmy-winning 1958 special An Evening with Fred Astaire. While at Tandem, she also was associate producer on the pilots of All in the Family (1971) and its spinoff Sanford & Son a year later.
Rees left Tandem in 1973 and joined Tomorrow Entertainment, where she worked on numerous productions including Orphan Train and the multiple-Emmy-winning Tell Me Where It Hurts. She later joined the Nrw Company as VP and was the executive...
Born on October 31, 1927, in Le Mars, Ia, Rees moved to Los Angeles in the early 1950s. In 1955, she joined Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin’s Tandem Productions and was associate producer on TV tributes to Frank Sinatra and Ethel Barrymore and the Emmy-winning 1958 special An Evening with Fred Astaire. While at Tandem, she also was associate producer on the pilots of All in the Family (1971) and its spinoff Sanford & Son a year later.
Rees left Tandem in 1973 and joined Tomorrow Entertainment, where she worked on numerous productions including Orphan Train and the multiple-Emmy-winning Tell Me Where It Hurts. She later joined the Nrw Company as VP and was the executive...
- 10/1/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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 Bainbridge Island in Washington, publicist Richard Hoffman announced.
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Rees started out at Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin's Tandem Productions, where she was an associate producer on the pilots of All in the Family and Sanford & Son. In 1981, she formed her own independent production company, a move that was rare for a woman at that time. She was a mentor ...
Rees died Aug. 26 on Bainbridge Island in Washington, publicist Richard Hoffman announced.
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Rees started out at Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin's Tandem Productions, where she was an associate producer on the pilots of All in the Family and Sanford & Son. In 1981, she formed her own independent production company, a move that was rare for a woman at that time. She was a mentor ...
- 10/1/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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