He had earlier lived in the Stanton section of Readington Township, New Jersey, in a home owned by Broadway actress Dorothy Stickney.
[1] Marchant's play To Be Continued, which included a 23-year-old Grace Kelly in the cast, opened on April 23, 1952 at the Booth Theatre on Broadway and ran for 13 performances.
[2][3] The Desk Set opened on Broadway on October 24, 1955 at the Broadhurst Theatre and ran for 297 performances with Shirley Booth in the lead role.
[4] The play was the source material for an eponymous 1957 movie starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
[5] He translated the French play Les Dames Du Jeudi by Loleh Bellon for Lynn Redgrave and John Clark, who premiered it as Thursday's Girls at the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles in 1981.