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Frances Lear (née Loeb, July 14, 1923 – September 30, 1996) was an American activist, magazine publisher, editor and writer. 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.
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- September 30, 1996 (aged 73), New York City, NY, U.S.
- Evelyn Loeb, July 14, 1923, Hudson, New York, U.S.
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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...
Frances Lear (1923–1996) was an American magazine editor and feminist who founded Lear's, the first mass-circulated magazine for women over 40. She was also a political activist, a divorcee of TV producer Norman Lear, and a breast cancer survivor.
Oct 2, 1996 · October 1, 1996 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Frances Lear, 73, a former self-described Hollywood wife who burst on the New York publishing scene in the 1980s when she launched Lear's, a pioneering...
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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...
Dec 6, 2023 · Norman Lear, the television writer and producer who introduced political and social commentary into situation comedy with “All in the Family” and other shows, proving that it was possible to be...
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Frances Lear was a magazine publisher, feminist activist and Hollywood wife who divorced Norman Lear, the producer of All in the Family and Maude. She received $25m in the settlement and used it to launch Lear's, a women's magazine that failed in 1994.
