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Talbot was born on November 29, 1928 in [[the Bronx]]. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. Her father owned a window-washing company and her mother was a homemaker. She grew up in the [[Pelham Parkway]] section of the Bronx. She graduated from Christopher Columbus High School and went on to receive a BA in 1949 from [[Queens College]].<ref name=”auto”/> |
Talbot was born on November 29, 1928 in [[the Bronx]]. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. Her father owned a window-washing company and her mother was a homemaker. She grew up in the [[Pelham Parkway]] section of the Bronx. She graduated from Christopher Columbus High School and went on to receive a BA in 1949 from [[Queens College]].<ref name=”auto”/> |
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Talbot and her husband [[Daniel Talbot (film distributor)|Dan Talbot]] operated four influential [[art-house cinema]]s on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[Manhattan]]. They operated the New Yorker Theater from 1960 to 1973, Cinema Studio from 1977 to 1990, the [[Metro Theater (New York City)|Metro Theater]] from 1982 to 1987, and the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas from 1981 to 2018.<ref name=”auto”/> |
Talbot and her husband [[Daniel Talbot (film distributor)|Dan Talbot]] operated four influential [[art-house cinema]]s on the [[Upper West Side]] of [[Manhattan]]. They operated the New Yorker Theater from 1960 to 1973, Cinema Studio from 1977 to 1990, the [[Metro Theater (New York City)|Metro Theater]] from 1982 to 1987, and the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas from 1981 to 2018.<ref name=”auto”/> |
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American cinema owner, writer, and translator
Toby Talbot (November 29, 1928 – September 15, 2025) was an American cinema owner, writer, and translator. With her husband Dan Talbot, she co-founded the distribution company New Yorker Films and ran several Manhattan theaters including Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.[1][2]
Talbot was born as Toby Tolpen on November 29, 1928 in the Bronx. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland. Her father owned a window-washing company and her mother was a homemaker. She grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx. She graduated from Christopher Columbus High School and went on to receive a BA in 1949 from Queens College.[1]
Talbot and her husband Dan Talbot operated four influential art-house cinemas on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They operated the New Yorker Theater from 1960 to 1973, Cinema Studio from 1977 to 1990, the Metro Theater from 1982 to 1987, and the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas from 1981 to 2018.[1]
Talbot was the education editor of the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario Nueva York and was a Spanish literature instructor at Columbia University and New York University, taught a documentary film course at the New School, and was a Spanish teacher at East Rockaway High School in Queens.[1]
Talbot translated from Spanish to English the 1981 memoir of Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number which detailed his experience of being kidnapped and tortured by the Argentine military junta. She was the author of several books including the novel, Early Disorder that focused on a teenager with an eating disorder, which she published in 1980 under the name Rebecca Joseph. In 1980, she wrote A Book About My Mother a combined memoir and biography. In 2009, she published the memoir The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies, which has a foreword by Martin Scorsese.[3][4] In 2022, after her husband’s death, she edited his memoir In Love With the Movies, which has a foreword by Werner Herzog.[1]
Talbot died on September 15, 2025 due to complications of Guillain–Barré syndrome.[1]
Talbot was married to Dan Talbot from 1951 until his death in 2017. They had three daughters.[1]
