Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pauline Kael" in English language version.
In 1951, Landberg had opened the Cinema Guild and Studio in a small storefront at 2436 Telegraph Ave. Two years later he met and married fellow film fanatic Kael, then a single mother struggling to make her mark in criticism.
Their marriage proved a fiasco, but Landberg agreed to pay for Gina's operation, which Kellow suspects had been Kael's motive all along.
I went to Petaluma, Calif., and learned a great deal about the community of Jewish chicken ranchers in which she grew up. I was also very lucky: I found her ex-husband, Edward Landberg, who was still living in Berkeley. He was her only husband, although she liked to confuse people by telling them she had been married three times.
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The Landbergs, who were married in El Cerrito on Jan. 23, 1955 and separated Jan. 15, 1958, were divorced and she won a final decree April 7, 1959.
In his review, Menand writes of Kael's influence on Sragow, Edelstein, and Marcus
all poets, and all gay or bisexual — Robert Duncan, Robert Horan and James Broughton...Kael and Horan hitchhiked across America in 1941...By the early '50s, she was running a laundry and tailoring business off Market Street...When she learned that Gina had a congenital heart defect, she could not afford the surgery needed to repair it....Arguing with a friend about a film in a Berkeley coffeehouse in the fall of 1952, she was overheard by Peter D. Martin, the founder of a new film-criticism journal, City Lights....attracted the attention of Mary McCarthy, among others...led to Kael's writing program notes for the films he booked, which in turn led to her commandeering almost all aspects of the theater...The piece that finally brought Kael east for keeps was a 7,000-word exegesis of "Bonnie and Clyde" that she wrote as an implicit tryout for The New Yorker in 1967.
