Biography

Marian Spitzer was born on February 20, 1899 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for The Dolly Sisters (1945), Look for the Silver Lining (1949) and The Loretta Young Show (1953). She was married to Harlan Thompson. She died on July 18, 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.

Mother of actor Evan Thompson, mother-in-law of Joan Shepard, grandmother of Owen Thompson and Jenn Thompson.

In New York it is a great honor to play the Palace. It means everything, and there are some small-time vaudevillians who would gladly play there for nothing, who would be willing to pay a bonus if they could get a week's booking at that house. Just as is the ambition of every social aspirant to see her name in the Social Register and to be invited to an Astor or a Vanderbilt function as the final accolade, so it is the ambition of every vaudeville trouper to see his name someday in the Palace line-up and to park his mangy trunk in one of the dressing rooms, even though it may be up under the roof of that theatre.