Irene Kane

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Irene Kane (aka Chris Chase ; January 12, 1924 in New York City as Irene Greengard , † October 31, 2013 in New York City) was an American actress , author and television presenter .

Life

Kane was born under the name Irene Greengard to Benjamin Greengard and Pearl Meister. Her younger brother was Paul Greengard , who later became a Nobel Prize in Medicine . Irene's biological mother, a former secretary, died in childbed. Through her stepmother Murice, who married Benjamin Greengard in early 1927, she had a half-sister named Linda, around 14 years her junior. Benjamin Greengard was originally a vaudeville artist, but later got a job as sales manager for a perfume manufacturer, after which the family moved to the Forest Hills neighborhood .

After high school, Greengard first worked for the Fanzine Modern Screen , where she became aware of the photographer Bert Stern . Working with him, photos of her appeared in Vogue and other fashion magazines. Stern also brokered it to Stanley Kubrick , who cast the young woman, who from now on used the pseudonym Irene Kane , in the lead role of his second feature film The Tiger of New York (1955). From September 20 of the same year she also appeared on Broadway in the Threepenny Opera and in an adaptation of Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart . In 1958 she was cast for an episode of the television series True Story and was also first seen in Merciless City (1958). 1960 followed another stage role in Tenderloin . In the 1960s, she was engaged for the series Love of Life (1962-1965), Look Up and Live (1962) and The Doctors (1964) and another episode in Merciless City (1963). 1979 saw the blonde actress with Bob Fosses Behind the Spotlight again in a feature film.

In 1962 Greengard married television producer Michael Chase, son of Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Chase . She took the family name of her husband and was then mostly active as Chris Chase . In addition to acting, she increasingly devoted herself to writing and initially published essays , preferably in the New York Times . Her texts also became the basis of the autobiographical work How to Be a Movie Star, or A Terrible Beauty Is Born (1974). Rosalind Russell became aware of Chase and hired her as a co-author for her autobiography Life Is a Banquet (1977). It was through this work that Chase drew the attention of Betty Ford , whom she hired as a contributor to The Times of My Life (1978) and Betty: A Glad Awakening (1987). Together with Jean-Claude Baker she also wrote Josephine: The Hungry Heart (1993) about Jean-Claude's adoptive mother Josephine Baker , and in 1996 the memoirs by Alan King , named Dropping: The Life and Lies of Alan King , were published with her collaboration . In addition to autobiographical and culturally critical works, she also published The Great American Waistline: Putting It On and Taking It Off in April 1981 , in which Chase discussed nutrition and diet issues.

In addition, she was briefly active as a cultural commentator for the CBS Morning Show from the spring of 1980 and then acted as the first presenter of CNN Media Watch .

She died of pancreatic cancer in the city of her birth in the fall of 2013 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Claudia Dreifus: He Turned His Nobel Into a Prize for Women. In: The New York Times . September 26, 2006, accessed on August 19, 2020 (interview with Paul Greengard; English).
  2. Paul Greengard's profile on the New York Academy of Sciences website , accessed August 19, 2020
  3. ^ A b Paul Vitello: Chris Chase, Actress Who Turned to Writing, Dies. In: The New York Times . November 5, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2020 (obituary; English).
  4. Irene Greengard in the 1940 census, accessed August 19, 2020
  5. a b c Irene Kane, star of Stanley Kubrick's film Killer's Kiss, dies. In: BBC . November 3, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2020 (obituary; English).
  6. ^ Name Dropping: The Life and Lies of Alan King on the Publishers Weekly website , accessed August 19, 2020
  7. ^ Bonnie Chase: Writer Chris Chase Measures the Girth of the Nation and Finds Food for Thought. In: People . February 23, 1981, accessed on August 19, 2020 (interview; English).