Judith Crist

Judith Crist (; Klein; May 22, 1922 – August 7, 2012) was an American film critic and academic.

She 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''. She 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''. She appeared in one film, Woody Allen's dramatic-comedy film ''Stardust Memories'' (1980), 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''. Provided by Wikipedia