Ha muerto Jo Anna March Clift

Ha fallecido la que fue última esposa de Brooks Clift, el hermano mayor de Monty.

Este es el obituario que recoge Internet:

No services are planned for Jo Anna March Clift, 76, Poulsbo, Wash. Private inurnment will be at a later date in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence. Mrs. Clift died Tuesday, June 2, 2009, in Poulsbo, Washington.

Para saber quién fue esta actriz, leer post con su biografía.

Jo Anna March Clift, esposa de Brooks Clift

Jo Anna March nació el 16 de octubre de 1932 en Lawrence (Kansas). Estudió Artes en la Universidad de Kansas y fue una actriz de teatro, cine y televisión. Actuó en Broadway en la obra Miss Lonelyhearts (1957) y en series de televisión durante los años 50. En los años 70 tuvo sus propios shows de televisión y llegó a enseñar en una escuela. Siguió haciendo cine y en el año 2005 recibió el Copper Wing Award del Phoenix Film Festival por A relative thing (2003).

Se casó en dos ocasiones. En diciembre de 1985, cuando tenía 53 años, se casó con Brooks Clift (él tenía entonces 66 años) en Alburquerque, Nuevo México. Brooks Clift falleció al año siguiente (24 de septiembre de 1986). Desconozco si Jo Ana March llegó a conocer a Montgomery Clift. Yo supe de ella a través del documento de divorcio entre Brooks y Eleanor Clift. Ver post.

Actualización: he sabido que ha fallecido. He publicado un post recogiendo la triste noticia y he investigado un poco sobre ella. De casualidad, no recuerdo dónde ni cómo, vi el nombre de Paul Miles Schneider asociado a Montgomery Clift. Buscando en Internet, he sabido que fue hijo de Jo Anna March y su primer marido. Y en la web de Andrea King (la cuál ya conocía y que recojo como links de fan, pues es la actriz que actuó con Monty en Fly away Home), aparecen unas fotos personales de Jo Anna March Clift y unos familiares. No sé qué relación existe , hasta que descubro que el autor de la web es nada menos que Paul Miles Schneider y por eso en estas webs -1 y 2- se habla de Jo Anna March. Lo que no sé todavía es la relación entre Jo Anna Y Andrea King. ¿Fueron amigas?. Pero el artículo está firmado por Paul & Stephen, El hermano de Paul se llama John, no sé si Stephen es su pareja. En el artículo se habla de los primos con los que se crió Jo Anna March y una curiosidad: en abril de 2000, la actriz apareción en un anuncio que se vio en la ciudad de Washington.

Jo Anna March -she was 12 years old -with her Masons cousins (Ann Mason Cowgill, Bob Mason and Fran Mason Hanford). Lawrence, Kansas, ca. 1944.

En el Lawrence Journal recoge su obituario:

(English text)
Jo Anna March Clift (1932 -2009). She was born Oct. 16, 1932, in Lawrence, the daughter of George Miles and Mary Atkinson March. She graduated from Liberty Memorial High School in 1950. Mrs. Clift earned a Bachelor of Arts in theater from Kansas University in 1954. She was a member of Pi Phi sorority and Phi Beta Kappa at KU. She was a stage, television and film actress. She appeared on Broadway in “Miss Lonelyhearts” with Pat O’Brien, Ruth Warrick, Fritz Weaver, Ann Meara and William Hickey in 1957 and “Something About a Soldier” with Sal Mineo in 1960. She appeared in live television dramas of the 1950s with Robert Preston, Sandra Church and Peter Ustinov.

Mrs. Clift was a regular performer in the radio soap opera “The Second Mrs. Burton” and was featured in the film “Burglar” with Whoopi Goldberg. In Lawrence, she hosted the local Sunflower Cable television shows “The Gingerbread Lady” and “Scene 497,” both in the early 1970s. She taught fifth grade at Sunset Hill School in Lawrence from 1974 to 1985. She married Leonard Schneider on May 10, 1959, in New York City. They divorced in 1985. She married Brooks Clift, brother of film star Montgomery Clift, in December 1985, in Albuquerque, N.M. He preceded her in death in 1986. Survivors include Leonard Schneider, Lawrence; and two sons, Paul Miles Schneider, Los Angeles, and John March Schneider, Overland Park.

Su hijo, Paul Miles Schneider, ha publicado la novela Silver Shoes y recordaba en su blog a sus padres. Ver post.

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El divorcio de Brooks y Eleanor Clift (documento)

En esta web jurídica, está publicada la sentencia de divorcio entre Brooks Clift, el hermano mayor de Montgomery Clift, ysu cuarta esposa, Eleanor Clift, que es periodista en la actualdad.

896 F.2d 1383

283 U.S.App.D.C. 85

Unpublished Disposition

Notice: D.C. Circuit Local Rule 11(c) states that unpublished orders, judgments, and explanatory memoranda may not be cited as precedents, but counsel may refer to unpublished dispositions when the binding or preclusive effect of the disposition, rather than its quality as precedent, is relevant.

Eleanor CLIFT, Plaintiff,

v.

Jo Anna CLIFT, Individually and as Personal Representative

of W. Brooks Clift.

No. 89-7204.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
March 6, 1990.

Before WALD, Chief Judge, and MIKVA and HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judges.
JUDGMENT

PER CURIAM.

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This cause came to be heard on the appeal from the judgment of the District Court granting the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, and was briefed and argued by counsel. The issues have been accorded full consideration by the Court and occasion no need for a published opinion. See D.C.Cir. Rule 14(c). For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum, it is

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ORDERED and ADJUDGED, by the Court, that the judgment is affirmed.

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The Clerk is directed to withhold issuance of the mandate herein until seven days after disposition of any timely petition for rehearing. See D.C.Cir. Rule 15.
MEMORANDUM

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While appellee Eleanor Clift was married to her former, now deceased, husband, W. Brooks Clift, they bought a house that was titled to both of them. In 1981 Brooks and Eleanor Clift separated, leading to divorce in 1984. In 1982, Brooks and Eleanor Clift entered into a contractual agreement; the terms of their agreement provided, inter alia, for transfer of the jointly titled house to Eleanor Clift on certain conditions, and for the establishment of a trust fund for the children of Eleanor Clift and Brooks Clift. See Separation and Property Settlement Agreement, Aug. 18, 1982 ("Agreement"), reprinted in J.A. 48. Brooks Clift died in 1986, and, in the present action, his wife at the time of his death, Jo Anna Clift, represents his estate.

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In the action below, Eleanor Clift brought suit seeking a judicial declaration that she was the sole owner of the house whose title she and Brooks Clift had jointly held and that she is trustee of $26,177.00, which she is to hold for the benefit of her children by Brooks Clift. In opposition, Jo Anna Clift counterclaimed for payment of an amount that, she argues, Eleanor Clift owed Brooks Clift on a promissory note that Eleanor Clift had given Brooks Clift pursuant to the Agreement. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the District Court entered judgment for Eleanor Clift, holding that she had not defaulted on her obligations to Brooks Clift under the Agreement, and that, pursuant to the Agreement, she should hold in trust for the benefit of her and Brooks Clift's children any remaining obligations she has to Brooks Clift.

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We uphold the District Court's decision solely on the ground that, even if Eleanor Clift owed Brooks Clift's estate a sum of money under the terms of the Agreement, that same Agreement also extinguished the debt and calls upon Eleanor Clift to hold the sum of the debt in trust for her and Brooks Clift's children.

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Central to our disposition of this case are three paragraphs in the Agreement. Paragraph 7 provides the conditions under which Brooks Clift would transfer his interest in the house to Eleanor Clift. See Agreement p 7, reprinted in J.A. 52-53. Paragraph 8(c) of the Agreement states that, "[i]n the event of the death of either party prior to the completion or cessation by the last child of his college education, the Husband agrees to waive over to the Wife in trust for the children any sum due him from her pursuant to Paragraph 7 hereof...." Id. p 8(c), reprinted in J.A. 54 (emphasis added). Finally, Paragraph 13 of the Agreement provides:

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Except as otherwise provided herein, all obligations due from one party to the other shall be extinguished by the death of either, and any such rights shall not accrue to the estate of the decedent.

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Agreement p 13, reprinted in J.A. 55 (emphasis added).

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Relying on paragraph 7, appellant Jo Anna Clift argues that Eleanor Clift failed to meet some of the conditions precedent for this transfer, namely, timely payment on the balance of a note from Eleanor Clift to Brooks Clift. In response, Eleanor Clift argues that she was entitled to offset against her debt to Brooks Clift certain Social Security payments that Brooks Clift should have turned over to Eleanor Clift for support of the children. We hold that, even if Jo Anna Clift was correct in her claim that Eleanor Clift was indebted to Brooks Clift's estate under the terms of paragraph 7--a question on which we take no position--paragraphs 8(c) and 13 clearly require that that debt be extinguished and held by Eleanor Clift in trust for her children. For that reason, the District Court's decision is hereby

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Affirmed.