Chris Chase (born Irene Greengard)

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1950

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Chris Chase (born Irene Greengard), ca. 1950s

"My sister's name was Irene and she changed it to Chris. She was very smart, very beautiful, and she - since she couldn't go to college, she got a job with a movie magazine writing for them and then she became a model and was very successful at the; she was on the cover of all the fashion magazines. Then she went into acting. She starred in Stanley Kubrick's first film. And then at a certain point she gave that up and started writing and she did a lot of writing for - as an art critic, a movie critic for various magazines, including the New York Times. Her professional name was Chris Chase." - Paul Greengard, Oral History