Allene Rosamond Talmey (January 11, 1903 March 13, 1986), later Allene Talmey Plaut, was an American columnist, editor, reporter and a film reviewer. She worked with various magazines and newspapers, including ''

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'' magazine, where she was a columnist and associate editor after joining the staff around 1936.

Early life and education

Talmey was born

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, and raised in

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, the daughter of George N. Talmey and Rose A. Brodsky Talmey. She had sisters Marjorie and Georgia, and a brother, Paul. Talmey graduated from the

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in 1924.

Career

Talmey was hired to write at a New York newspaper directly out of college. She served as a managing editor at the '' Vanity Fair'' and as a reporter at ''The New York Morning World'' and ''

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''. She was also associated with ''

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'' magazine as a film reviewer and the associate editor of ''

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Talmey worked at ''Vogue'' for over thirty years, beginning in 1936, continuing through

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, and serving as an associate editor from 1963 until she retired in 1971. She was "editor of everything at ''Vogue'' that is not beauty or fashion," explained a 1967 profile. Later, she worked at the magazine as a

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, reviewing books and films, and writing

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related to medicine and politics. Talmey wrote ''Doug and Mary, and Others'' (1927), a book of essays about

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and other Hollywood figures, with

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illustrations by Bertrand Zadig. An edited collection of her columns, ''People Are Talking About... People and Things in Vogue'', was published as an oversized illustrated volume in 1970.

Personal life

Talmey married Richard L. Plaut in 1927. They had a son, Richard L. Jr. She was widowed when Plaut died in 1974; she died in 1986, aged 83, in New York City.

References

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