Joseph Moncure March Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Joseph Moncure March (July 27, 1899 New York City - February 14, 1977 Los Angeles, California) was an American poet and essayist, best known for his long narrative poems The Wild Party and The Set-Up.
Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Honour
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Was at one time editor of The New Yorker magazine. Also scripted a number of documentaries for the State Department.
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Served with a field artillery unit in the U.S. Army during World War I.
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Studied under Robert Frost at Amherst College.
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Adopted his wife's, Peggy Prior, two children, Lori March and her brother, Ted von Eltz.
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Both his poems "The Wild Party and "The Set-Up" were made into films.
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His uncle, General Peyton Conway March, was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in World War I, his grandfather was the eminent philologist Francis Andrew March, and, according to one genealogy, he was the grandnephew of Moncure Daniel Conway, a great abolitionist and freethinker.
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Best known for writing "The Wild Party," a tale of Manhattan hedonism and the tragic hipsters who indulge in it. A 1975 movie and (much later) subsequent musical were based on it.
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March's work in turning the silent film classic Hell's Angels (1930) into a talkie is consistently underrated. Martin Scorsese's Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004) omits his integral role entirely.
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