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Rita Gam was first wife to director Sidney Lumet.
She passed away due to respiratory failures in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
She was 88.
She starred in films like Saadia, Sign of the Pagan and King of Kings.
Ms Gam also appeared opposite Gregory Peck in Night People (1954) and Shoot Out (1971), in William Dieterle’s Magic Fire (1955), with Victor Mature in Hannibal (1959) and with Jane Fonda in Alan J Pakula’s Klute(1971).
She is survived by her daughter Kate Guinzburg who is a film producer, her son Micheal Giunzburg who is a novelist and grandduaghters Michelle, Olivia and Louisa.