Judith Crist was an American film critic and academic.
13 Facts About Judith Crist
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Judith Crist appeared regularly on the Today show from 1964 to 1973 and was among the first full-time female critics for a major American newspaper, in her case, The New York Herald Tribune.
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Judith Crist was the founding film critic at New York magazine and became known to most Americans as a critic at the weekly magazine TV Guide and at the morning TV show Today.
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Judith Crist appeared in one film, Woody Allen's dramatic-comedy film Stardust Memories, and was the author of various books, including The Private Eye, The Cowboy and the Very Naked Girl; Judith Crist's TV Guide to the Movies; and Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking.
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Judith Crist attended Morris High School in The Bronx, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College and a Master of Science degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Judith Crist was tart, sensible, and irresistibly readable, and she cut a colorful figure on the festival circuit, building bridges between filmmakers and audiences in her famous weekend seminars.
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Judith Crist was an adjunct professor at Columbia's School of Journalism.
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Judith Crist was a longtime member of the Executive Committee of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Association and served three terms as President of the Alumni Association during the 1960s.
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In 1948, Crist took part in Dr Fredric Wertham's attack on comic books and published an article in Collier's magazine quoting Wertham and calling for action against violent, sadistic, and provocative comic books which Crist perceived to be affecting the morality of American youth.
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Judith Crist conducted the Judith Crist Film Weekends at Tarrytown House, in Tarrytown, New York, from 1971 to 2006.
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Judith Crist wrote the article "Tribute to a Partnership", a tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein, in 1965, for a booklet that accompanied RCA Victor's original LP release of the soundtrack album of The Sound of Music.
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Judith Crist was the mother of Steven Crist, a thoroughbred handicapper and publisher of the Daily Racing Form.
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Judith Crist died at her home in Manhattan on August 7,2012, at age 90.