A Posthumous New Yorker Postcard

Tad Friend pays tribute to the late Monica Lewis.

MonicaLewisIn the September 7 issue of The New Yorker, there is a wonderful portrait of a veteran of Hollywood’s Golden Age. What makes the piece even more sweetly nostalgic is that its subject, Monica Lewis, passed away in June. Ten days after she was interviewed.

Staff writer Tad Friend journeyed to the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home in Woodland Hills, Calif., to speak with the retired actress and voice for a famous Chiquita Banana jingle.

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