Dec. 24, 1990: Died:Martin Ritt TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990 Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
Time Magazine MILESTONES, Page 70

DIED. Martin Ritt, 76, director known for his adaptation of Faulkner in The Long Hot Summer (1958), his direction of Paul Newman, Patricia Neal and Melvyn Douglas in Hud (1963), and for such socially conscientious films as Norma Rae (1979); in Santa Monica, Calif.