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Raised in Virginia, Marcella Rabwin left for Los Angeles at 16, attended University of California, Los Angeles, and gained employment as a custom dressmaker in Bullock"s department store after graduating.
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She is most remembered as the executive assistant of David O. on the production of Gone with the Wind. Her first contact with the motion picture industry was with Warner Brothers Studios" costume department, where she worked before becoming a secretary for executive Arthur Caesar. She also worked briefly for Darryl F. Zanuck.
She next began to work for agent Myron, but left for Radio-Keith-Orpheum Radio Pictures.
Three months after moving to Radio-Keith-Orpheum, the studios were bought by Myron"s brother, David, who quickly promoted her from his secretary to his Executive Assistant. Marcella Rabwin was David O. "s executive assistant in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Notably, she was his assistant during the production of Gone With the Wind. Her employment under David O. ended in 1941.
Rabwin became a civic leader in Beverly Hills, spearheading the campaign to build that city"s library.
Her only book Yes, Mr. was published a year after her death.
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