Marshall never directed another film. He divorced Hedren in 1982. He subsequently married a woman named Paula Marshall Doss and eventually left the entertainment industry entirely, working in marketing for a health maintenance organization in Florida. He died on June 30, 2010, in Santa Monica, of cancer, at the age of seventy-nine.
His legacy in the record is ambivalent. The Exorcist remains one of the most commercially successful horror films ever made, and his role as executive producer is part of that film’s history. Roar is a document of an ambition that exceeded its object — that believed it could be accomplished on the terms it proposed and turned out to be wrong at enormous cost to the people involved. The lions that came from that project live at Shambala, where they are cared for by the institution that Hedren built from the project’s wreckage. Marshall’s name is on the film as director, writer, and star; the film itself is most often discussed in terms of what it cost to make rather than what it achieved.
## The Hitchcock Years: A Closer Examination
The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren has been discussed extensively in the decades since its professional component ended, and the discussion has been shaped by the asymmetry inherent in any relationship that involves one party’s account and the other party’s silence. Hitchcock died in April 1980, having never addressed the specific allegations that Hedren would eventually make about his conduct. His defenders — including some of the colleagues who had worked with him across his career — have disputed the characterization, and the dispute has never been resolved in a way that produces a definitive account.