- Appeared in the second episode of season 3 of The Sopranos (1999) despite having died almost six months before. Using CGI techniques, a scene between Tony Soprano and his mother was constructed using a body double. Producer David Chase decided to use this technique, having seen it being used in Gladiator (2000) when star Oliver Reed died during production.
- A chain smoker for many years, Marchand died on the day before what would have been her 72nd birthday from lung cancer and emphysema.
- Her television career reads like a book about the history of television: Her first credit was co-starring in the groundbreaking classic Marty (1953) with Rod Steiger, when CBS was at the height of its prestige as the "Tiffany network"; she won Emmy Awards as Mrs. Pynchon, the newspaper publisher on Lou Grant (1977); and she ended her career on the HBO series The Sopranos (1999).
- Her portrait is one of the pictures used in Julia Roberts's character's photography exhibit in Closer (2004).
- Was of English and French descent.
- Attended Carnegie Mellon University and later studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village, New York City.
- A son-in-law, Peter Bowe, is a science department head at a school in Stratford, CT.
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