Marion Hargrove

Marion Hargrove (October 13, 1919 – August 23, 2003) was an American writer.
Biography.
Hargrove is noted for the bestselling book "See Here, Private Hargrove", a collection of humorous newspaper columns written mostly before the United States entered World War II. (The book was made into a 1944 movie with Robert Walker as Hargrove and Donna Reed as his love interest.) During the war, he served on the staff of "Yank, the Army Weekly". After the war, he wrote two novels: "Something's Got to Give" (1948) and "The Girl He Left Behind" (1956). He also wrote for various popular magazines, and served as feature editor of "Argosy".
A native of Mount Olive, North Carolina, Hargrove settled in Los Angeles in 1955 and began writing television and film scripts. His credits include "Cash McCall" (1960), "The Music Man" (1962), and television episodes of "Maverick" (1957), "The Restless Gun" (1957), "Colt .45" (1957), "Zane Grey Theater" (1957), the pilot script for "77 Sunset Strip" entitled "Girl on the Run" (1958), "The Rogues" (1964), "I Spy" (1966), "The Name of the Game" (1969), "Nichols" (1972), "The Waltons" (1975), and "Bret Maverick" (1981). Collaborator Roy Huggins discusses Hargrove at length in part 6 of his video interview with the Archive of American Television. Hargrove was one of three Hollywood writers interviewed and analyzed at length in "Prime Time Authorship" (2002), by Douglas Heil. While working at Warner Bros. in 1959, he was the center of a successful grass-roots letter-writing campaign to acquire a suitable couch for his office on the studio lot. A selection of these letters was published in "Playboy Magazine" under the title "Hollywood Horizontal" (1959) and anthologized in "The Playboy Book of Humor and Satire" (1965).
In 1965, Hargrove attempted to mold a television series after "See Here, Private Hargrove", with Peter Helm in the starring role. The pilot was produced but never sold.