Stanley Marcus' long, colorful, multi-faceted life earned him such titles as 'America's Merchant Prince', 'The Melancholy Plato of Retailing', and international recognition as the arbiter of taste during his lifetime. His genius for marketing Neiman Marcus not only transformed Dallas from a rough-and-tumble cotton market town into a Mecca of high fashion, it changed the face of retailing forever. His is a story that demands telling not only on the page, but on the screen.