Marcia Nasatir, Pathbreaking Studio Exec and Producer, Dies

Marcia Nasatir, the pathbreaking studio govt and producer, died on Tuesday on the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Country House and Hospital, in response to a person with information. Nasatir was 95.

Nasatir broke the glass ceiling and have become the primary feminine vice chairman of manufacturing at United Artists within the 1970s. She labored on field workplace hits like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Rocky,” “Coming Home,” “Three Days of the Condor,” “Carrie” and “F.I.S.T.” She additionally labored at Orion Pictures and Johnny Carson’s manufacturing firm earlier than branching out as an unbiased producer.

In 1974, Nasatir was a literary agent with a formidable shopper roster that included prime screenwriters like William Goldman, Robert Towne, Lorenzo Semple Jr. and director Sydney Pollack. Nasatir then acquired a name from Mike Medavoy, then the senior VP of manufacturing at United Artists, who supplied Nasatir a narrative editor job. She agreed to take the job on the situation that she could be a vice chairman on the firm.

“At the time, Americans’ views toward women were beginning to change, and I believe that the wife of the head of UA [Arthur Krim], Dr. Mathilde Krim, said to him, ‘It’s a good idea, Arthur,’ so he said yes,” Nasatir informed the Hollywood Reporter in a 2013 essay. “A woman had never been a production VP before, and it became known at other studios as ‘Marcia Nasatir’s job.’ [Arthur would introduce me to people as ‘our woman vice president.’]”

She went on, “It was an interesting place to work: I was always the only woman in meetings, except for a secretary, and when the men cursed they would apologize to me. I said, ‘Listen, guys, I’ve heard those words before.’”

In 1978, Nasatir left for Orion Pictures when Medavoy and three different former United Artists executives left to begin the brand new firm. Nasatir turned a VP of manufacturing. In the ’80s, she joined Carson Productions, the place she developed the Academy Award finest image nominee “The Big Chill.”

Eventually, Nasatir would department out as an unbiased producer and produce movies like “Hamburger Hill,” “Ironweed,” “Vertical Limit” and “Elle.”

In 2016, director Anne Goursaud launched the documentary “A Classy Broad” about Nasatir’s life and profession.

The Hollywood Reporter first reported the information.