The MPI dvds featured a very interesting interview with Mr. Marmorstein. Prior to becoming a prolific writer, Mr. Marmorstein worked in Manhattan in theatrical production on Broadway during the early 1950s.
Mr. Marmorstein worked on the Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," which featured such luminaries as Jessica Tandy, Karl Malden and a "certain" Mr. Marlon Brando. In fact, Mr. Marmorstein related in the interview that he once took the then-ferry boat across the Hudson River over to Hoboken from New York City to visit with his friend, Marlon Brando, while the great method actor was appearing in Elia Kazan's classic film, "On the Waterfront," in 1954.
My late Aunt Ruth was a young nurse, who worked in St. Mary's Hospital in the famous Garden State town of Hoboken (with, literally, a tavern on every corner, and also famed for being the birthplace of one Mr. Frank Sinatra) during that time; she remembered seeing Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint and Elia Kazan setting up the scene in the park in front of the Catholic Church on Hudson Street on her way to the hospital one morning. Maybe she also caught of a glimpse of the extremely talented Mr. Marmorstein as well?
