10 Facts About Allene Talmey

Allene Rosamond Talmey, later Allene Talmey Plaut, was an American columnist, editor, reporter and a film reviewer.

Allene Talmey worked with various magazines and newspapers, including Vogue magazine, where she was a columnist and associate editor after joining the staff around 1936.

Talmey was born Brookline, Massachusetts, and raised in New Rochelle, New York, the daughter of George N Talmey and Rose A Brodsky Talmey.

Allene Talmey had sisters Marjorie and Georgia, and a brother, Paul.

Allene Talmey served as a managing editor at the Vanity Fair and as a reporter at The New York Morning World and The Evening World.

Allene Talmey was associated with Time magazine as a film reviewer and the associate editor of The Stage magazine.

Allene Talmey worked at Vogue for over thirty years, beginning in 1936, continuing through World War II, and serving as an associate editor from 1963 until she retired in 1971.

Allene Talmey was "editor of everything at Vogue that is not beauty or fashion," explained a 1967 profile.

Allene Talmey wrote Doug and Mary, and Others, a book of essays about Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and other Hollywood figures, with woodcut illustrations by Bertrand Zadig.

Allene Talmey was widowed when Plaut died in 1974; she died in 1986, aged 83, in New York City.