Loretta Haggers: [Referring to the Lombardi family] Someone just shot 'em. Mary Hartman: Oh my God. The whole family? Loretta Haggers: All five of them, plus two goats and eight chickens. Mary Hartman: I can't believe that. What kind of a madman would shoot two goats and eight chickens. [after a…
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Ann Marcus
Ann Marcus (August 22, 1921 – December 3, 2014) was an Emmy Award-winning American television writer and film producer. She graduated from Western College for Women, worked for the New York Daily News and Life, where she worked with famed photographers such as Alfred Eisenstadt. In 2007, she was executive producer of the independent feature film, For Heaven's Sake. 2Television writing credits Lassie The Hathaways Please Don't Eat the Daisies The Debbie Reynolds Show Gentle Ben Peyton Place General Hospital Love Is a Many Splendored Thing Search for Tomorrow Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Fernwood 2-Nite All That Glitters Julie Farr, M.D. Days of Our Lives Love of Life Falcon Crest Knots Landing Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac Flamingo Road L.A.T.E.R: The Life And Times of Eddie Roberts 2Other Marcus was elected to the Board of Directors of the WGAe seven times and served as Secretary/treasurer from 1992-94. She published her memoir, Whistling Girl in 1999. 2Family She and her husband, Ellis Marcus, also a television writer, had three children. 2Death On December 3, 2014, Ann Marcus died in Sherman Oaks, California at the age of 93, from bladder cancer. 2Awards and nominations Nominated for multiple Daytime Emmys and Primetime Emmys. Her first Daytime Emmy nomination was in 1978 for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Marcus was also presented with the Morgan Cox Award for distinguished service to the WGA in 200
Mary Hartman: [On the phone] Grandpa Larkin's at the police station? Sgt. Foley: Yes, he is. Mary Hartman: Is he all right? Sgt. Foley: Well, not exactly. Mary Hartman: Is he hurt? I mean, what did he have, an accident? Sgt. Foley: No, he's not hurt. And I'm afraid what happened to him was not an…
Tom Hartman: Did you think I was sexy then? Mary Hartman: Yeah, you were. You were just like Johnny Carson. You were just all boyish and proud of yourself. Tom Hartman: He's a comedian. I'm a Robert Redford, huh? Mary Hartman: [thinks a moment] Johnny Carson.
Harold Clemens: [Referring to high school] I'm sure you were very attractive. Mary Hartman: [Charmed] Really? [Changing her tone] What do you think happened to me?
Oh, Charlie, you make me feel bigger than Janis Joplin! When she was alive, that is.
Mary Hartman: It was a wonderful book. It was guaranteed to improve my emotional health. Harold Clemens: Did it improve your emotional health? Mary Hartman: I think so, I definitely think so. You see, it was while I was reading that book that I realized that I needed glasses, and that made me feel…
Sgt. Foley: Are you a little nervous? Mary Hartman: No. Why, do I seem a little nervous? No, I'm not, I'm not nervous. Why, because I'm a married woman having a cocktail in a cocktail lounge in the middle of the afternoon with a good looking person?
I don't know what this argument is between you and Tom, but I do know this: even if you are miserable living with him, it's the only way you're gonna be happy!
Loretta Haggers: [regains consciousness, groggy] What happened? Charlie Haggers: Oh, honey, we had an accident, hit a station wagon full of nuns. Loretta Haggers: A station wagon full of nuns? Is that a sin? Charlie Haggers: Well, baby, if you're Catholic, but we're not Catholic. Loretta Haggers:…
Charlie Haggers: You really planning to sell that fella's song for him in Nashville? Loretta Haggers: Yeah, I got to, y'know, I gave him my word. Charlie Haggers: That's a terrible song! And after what he had in mind to do to you. Loretta Haggers: Oh, honey, both he and his song are just sickeningly…