{"id":572143,"date":"2026-03-31T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572143\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:07:09","slug":"paul-schrader-makes-first-comment-after-death-of-wife-mary-beth-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/572143\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Schrader Makes First Comment After Death of Wife Mary Beth Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mary-beth-hurt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mary-beth-hurt_1\" data-tag=\"mary-beth-hurt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Beth Hurt<\/a>, the Tony-nominated actress who starred in such films as Interiors, Six Degrees of Separation, Chilly Scenes of Winter and The World According to Garp, died Saturday in New Jersey after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/mary-beth-hurt-dead-world-according-to-garp-interiors-1236551313\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being diagnosed<\/a> with Alzheimer\u2019s disease in 2015. Her husband, filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paul-schrader\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-schrader_1\" data-tag=\"paul-schrader\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Schrader<\/a>, offered his first comments about her passing with a brief post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/facebook\/\" id=\"auto-tag_facebook_1\" data-tag=\"facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, where he has long shared his unfiltered takes on life, film and his Hollywood career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cNOVEMBER 23, 1978. My father kept a meticulous and finely printed daily journal. On Thanksgiving 1978 he wrote simply \u2018Joan died 12:20 am.\u2019 Nothing more. Joan was his wife and my mother. He was made of stern stuff. I\u2019ve looked at this entry over the years and wondered how I\u2019d feel in his place. Now I\u2019m in that place,\u201d Schrader shared on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt\u2019s the first post since her passing about his longtime wife, whom he married in Chicago in August 1983. Together they had two children, Molly and Sam, and they collaborated on the big screen in four films directed by Schrader: Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), The Walker (2007) and Adam Resurrected (2008). Since Hurt was diagnosed, Schrader was her primary caretaker, and he even moved into the assisted living facility, The Coterie, in New York City in order to be near her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter her passing, their daughter, Molly, paid tribute to her mother on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/instagram\/\" id=\"auto-tag_instagram_1\" data-tag=\"instagram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cYesterday morning we lost my mom, Mary Beth, to Alzheimer\u2019s after a decade long battle with the disease. She was an actress, a wife, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a friend, and she took on all those rolls with grace and a kind ferocity. Although we\u2019re grieving there is some comfort in knowing she is no longer suffering and is reunited with her sisters in peace,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Beth Hurt, the Tony-nominated actress who starred in such films as Interiors, Six Degrees of Separation, Chilly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,2096,5472,219986,157237],"class_list":{"0":"post-572143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-facebook","13":"tag-instagram","14":"tag-mary-beth-hurt","15":"tag-paul-schrader"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}