Anecdotes

March's work in turning the silent film classic Les anges de l'enfer (1930) into a talkie is consistently underrated. Martin Scorsese's Hughes biopic Aviator (2004) omits his integral role entirely.

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.

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.

Both his poems "The Wild Party and "The Set-Up" were made into films.

Adopted his wife's, Peggy Prior, two children, Lori March and her brother, Ted von Eltz.

Studied under Robert Frost at Amherst College.

Served with a field artillery unit in the U.S. Army during World War I.

Was at one time editor of The New Yorker magazine. Also scripted a number of documentaries for the State Department.