The Return of the Classic Films Obituary Thread

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18. Pioneering executive producer Marcia Nasatir, 95

https://deadline.com/2021/08/marcia-nasatir-dead-pioneer-female-film-executive-producer-1234808454/

Marcia Nasatir, a film executive producer who shattered barriers as Hollywood’s first VP Production, working on back-to-back Best Picture Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Rocky and many other pics, died Tuesday morning at the Motion Picture & Television Fund hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. She was 95.

No cause of death was reported.

Nasatir was working as a lit agent in the mid-1970s when she joined United Artists as a story editor. She was named VP West Coast Development, working with SVP Production Mike Medavoy. Along with Best Picture winners Rocky and Cuckoo’s Nest, UA also produced such classics of the era as Brian De Palma’s Carrie and Robert Redford’s Three Days of the Condor.