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Biography. Lear was born with only a first name, Evelyn, to an unwed mother in Hudson, New York, at the Vanderheusen Home for Wayward Girls. [1] She was adopted at 14 months by Aline and Herbert Loeb from Larchmont, New York, who changed her name from Evelyn to Frances. When she was 10 years old, her adoptive father committed suicide after ...
Oct 1, 1996 · Frances Lear, a mercurial figure in the media world who spent some $25 million she received in a divorce settlement to start a magazine named after herself, died yesterday at her home in Manhattan ...
Frances Lear. Costume Department: Divorce American Style. Frances Lear was born on 14 July 1923 in Hudson, New York, USA. She was a costume designer, known for Divorce American Style (1967), He & She (1967) and All That Glitters (1977). She was married to Norman Lear. She died on 30 September 1996 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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- September 30, 1996
Lear, Frances (1923–1996)American magazine editor and feminist who founded Lear's magazine "for the woman who wasn't born yesterday." Born on July 14, 1923, in Hudson, New York; died on September 30, 1996, in New York City; adopted daughter of Herbert Adam Loeb (a businessman) and Aline (Friedman) Loeb; briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New Yor Source for information on ...
Oct 1, 1996 · Frances Lear, the former wife of producer Norman Lear who used her sizable divorce settlement to found a women’s magazine called Lear’s and later founded Lear Television, died Monday. She was ...
Frances Lear was born in Hudson, New York, at a home for wayward girls, the child of an unwed mother and an unknown father, and was adopted at the age of 14 months. In her autobiography, The ...
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Oct 2, 1996 · Frances Lear, the former wife of TV producer Norman Lear who used her sizable divorce settlement to found a women’s magazine called Lear’s and later Lear Television, died on Monday. She was 73.
