Judith Crist

Who was Judith Crist?

Judith Crist was an American film critic and academic. She appeared regularly on the Today show from 1964 to 1973 and was the first full-time female critic for a major American newspaper, the New York Herald Tribune. She was the founding film critic at New York magazine and become known to most Americans as a critic at TV Guide. She 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.