shipbuilding plant in Groton, Connecticut, and wrote features (mostly acid assessments of the movie business) for the New York Times Magazine. In later years, he wrote documentaries for the United States Department of State and industrial films for Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Monsanto Company, American Airlines, and others. Several films starring industrial films icon Thelma "Tad" Tadlock, including Design for Dreaming (1956) and A Touch of Magic (1961) were made from March's rhyming scripts. He retired from writing in 1964 and returned to California, where died at a nursing home in Los Angeles on February 14, 1977. Works and legacy March revised both The Set-Up and The Wild Party in 1968. Most critics deplored these changes, and Art Spiegelman returned to the original text when he published his illustrated version of The Wild Party in 1994. The Set-Up was reprinted in 2022 by Korero Press with illustrations by the dutch artist Erik Kriek. Both of March's long poems were made into films. Robert Wise's 1949 film version of The Set-Up loses the poem's racial dimension by casting the white actor Robert Ryan in the lead, while the Merchant Ivory Productions 1975 version of The Wild Party changes March's plot to conflate the poem with the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. The Wild Party continues to attract new readers and adaptations. In 2000, two separate musical versions played in New York, one on Broadway, composed by Michael John LaChiusa, and the other off-Broadway, composed by Andrew Lippa, with mixed critical and popular success. The Archives & Special Collections at Amherst College holds a substantial collection of March's personal papers, including unpublished poems, scripts, and a memoir entitled Hollywood Idyll. March's uncle, General Peyton Conway March, was once Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in World War I. His grandfather was the philologist Francis Andrew March, and his adopted daughter is the retired actress Lori March Williams. Bibliography Books Essays and reporting References External links Biography and critical history of March's fiction, poetry, screenplays and memoirs, by Tim Cavanaugh Joseph Moncure March (AC 1920) Papers at Amherst College Joseph Moncure March at the Internet Movie Database 1899 births 1977 deaths Amherst College alumni 20th-century American poets The New Yorker people The New Yorker editors American male poets Writers from New York City Poets from New York (state) American military personnel of World War I 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers