{{Short description|American actor and author (1924–2013)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Chris Chase | image = Chase Killer's Kiss.png | caption = Chase in ''Killer's Kiss'' (1955) | birth_name = Irene Greengard | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|1|12}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|10|31|1924|1|12}} | death_place = New York City, U.S. | other_names = Irene Kane | occupation = Actress, model, writer, journalist }} '''Chris Chase''' (born '''Irene Greengard'''; January 12, 1924 – October 31, 2013), also known by the stage name '''Irene Kane''', was an American model, film actress, writer, and journalist.<ref name="miller">{{cite news |title=Writing brings fame for Chris Chase |first=Betty Jean |last=Miller |date=April 1, 1975 |newspaper=Evening Independent |location=St. Petersburg, Florida |volume=133 |department=Section B - Localife |page=1-B |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H0MvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N1gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4815%2C127269 |access-date=February 21, 2023 |via=Google News Archive}}</ref> Her best-known role was in ''Killer's Kiss''. She later wrote advice books and co-authored several celebrity autobiographies.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chris Chase, Actress and Writer, Is Dead |first=Paul |last=Vitello |date=November 5, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/books/chris-chase-actress-and-writer-is-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315203109/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/books/chris-chase-actress-and-writer-is-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries |archive-date=March 15, 2022}}</ref> She was the sister of Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Paul Greengard.<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/New-York/Irene-Greengard_8p8px Irene Greengard in the 1940 Census]</ref>
==Early life and career== Born to Pearl (née Meister) and Benjamin Greengard in New York City in 1924, Irene Greengard was a model for ''Vogue''.<ref name="nykoruk">{{cite book |editor-first=Barbara |editor-last=Nykoruk |title=Authors in the News |chapter=Chris's Star Trek |first=Judy (reprint of her October 13, 1974, article in ''Washington Star-News'') |last=Flander |year=1976 |volume=1 |page=101 |publisher=Gale Research Company |location=Detroit |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/authorsinnews0001unse/page/101/mode/2up |access-date=February 21, 2023 |isbn=97-80810-300-43-9 |via=Internet Archive text collection |chapter-url-access=limited }}</ref> In the mid-1950s, photographer Bert Stern, who had photographed her for that magazine, introduced her to film director Kubrick when he was looking for the female lead for ''Killer's Kiss''. She took the professional name Irene Kane, and went on to appear in other films as well as Broadway theatre productions.
As Chris Chase, she moved into journalism, working at ''The New York Times'', and writing advice books on weight loss and getting into film acting.<ref name="johnson">{{cite magazine |title=Writer Chris Chase Measures the Girth of the Nation and Finds Food for Thought |first=Bonnie |last=Johnson |date=February 23, 1981 |magazine=People |volume=15 |number=7 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20078678,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110123039/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20078678,00.html |archive-date=January 10, 2011}}</ref>
After a short stint at ''CBS Morning News'', Chase joined CNN in 1980 and stayed until 1986, serving as the first anchor of ''Media Watch'' in 1985. She co-authored several celebrity autobiographies, including books by Rosalind Russell, Betty Ford, and Alan King, and co-authored a biography of Josephine Baker with Baker's adopted son Jean-Claude.<ref name=HR2013/>
==Marriage== On June 3, 1961, Kane married Michael Chase (born 1932), an educational television producer, and the son of playwright Mary Chase. She took her husband's surname professionally as well as legally.<ref name="nrb">{{cite magazine |title=1961's Marriages |publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures |date=February 1962 |magazine=Films in Review |volume=XIII |issue=2 |page=118 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_films-in-review_1962-02_13_2/page/118/mode/2up?q=chase |access-date=February 21, 2023 |via=Internet Archive text collection}}</ref> Chase and her husband were seriously injured in a car accident near Poughkeepsie, New York, in March 1975.<ref name="injury">{{cite news |title=Author Chris Chase is injured |date=April 7, 1975 |volume=133 |page=11-A |newspaper=Evening Independent |location=St. Petersburg, Florida |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bOQLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N1gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6407%2C1864258 |access-date=February 21, 2023 |via=Google News Archive}}</ref>
==Death== Chase died of pancreatic cancer on October 31, 2013, at her home in New York City, aged 89.<ref name=HR2013>{{cite news |title=Irene Kane, Star of Kubrick's 'Killer's Kiss,' Dies |first=Mike |last=Barnes |date=November 3, 2013 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/irene-kane-kubrick-actress-chris-chase-652790 |access-date=December 26, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Irene Kane, star of Stanley Kubrick film Killer's Kiss, dies |date=November 4, 2013 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24802212 |access-date=December 26, 2013}}</ref>
==Acting==
===Films and television=== *''Killer's Kiss'' (1955) *''Naked City'' (1958, 1963) *''Love of Life'' (1962–65) *''All That Jazz'' (1979; as Chris Chase) *''Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures'' (2001; as Chris Chase)
===Stage=== *''Threepenny Opera'' (1955) *''The Ponder Heart'' (1956) *''Tenderloin'' (1960)
==Books==
*''How to Be a Movie Star, or A Terrible Beauty Is Born'' (1974), {{isbn|9780060107260}}, {{isbn| 978-0425041949}} *''Life Is a Banquet'' (1977) with Rosalind Russell, {{isbn|978-0394421346}} *''Times of My Life'' (1978) with Betty Ford, {{isbn|978-0-06-011298-1}} *''The Great American Waistline'' (1981), {{isbn|978-0698110694}} *''Betty: A Glad Awakening'' (1987) with Betty Ford, {{isbn|978-0-385-23502-0}} *''Josephine: The Josephine Baker Story'' (1993) with Jean-Claude Baker, {{isbn|978-1558504721}} *''Name Dropping'' (1996) with Alan King, {{isbn|978-1439143438}}
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