Marion Hargrove
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Marion Hargrove (October 13, 1919 – August 23, 2003) was an American writer noted for the bestselling World War II comedy novel See Here, Private Hargrove (which was made into a 1944 movie with Robert Walker as Hargrove and Donna Reed as his love interest) as well as almost two dozen television and movie scripts, including What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945), Girl on the Run (1958), Cash McCall (1960), The Music Man (1962), and television episodes of Maverick (1957), The Restless Gun (1957), Colt .45 (1957), Zane Grey Theater (1957), 77 Sunset Strip (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 his Archive of American Television videotaped interview.