Alex Traub

Instead of home-schooling her daughter, she spent hundreds of millions of dollars building an idiosyncratic educational institution in the Hamptons.

A film crew and illustrator meticulously documented her pirouettes and pouts, giving substance to a character depicted previously as a spotlight onstage.

After nearly nine years of practice, he made John Milton’s epic poem vividly dramatic for audiences and inspired a study of his “memory virtuosity.”

A close collaborator with George Lucas, her second husband, she was “the warmth and the heart” of his early films, the actor Mark Hamill said.

As a rising star of the 1960s, she dated Paul Simon, brooded with Nick Drake and drew Barbra Streisand’s envy. Then she sank into an abusive marriage.

She and her husband, Marcus Lamb, founded Daystar Television Network, which reached more than 200 countries and made the couple into televangelism stars.

The group could be heard on the soundtracks of the movies “Patriot Games” and “The Last of the Mohicans.” Its “Theme From Harry’s Game,” from a TV series, was a hit.

After making the journey from prewar Germany to Madison Avenue opulence, she gave her name to one of New York’s most influential indie cinemas.

She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.

In the ’70s, New York’s bohemia was devoted to hostile yet arty rock. Mr. Smith had two qualities rare in the scene: personal and musical understatement.