Beulah Roth; Books Chronicled Postwar Era

Beulah Roth, 83, whose three books on the photographs of her late husband, Sanford, became well known. Sister of screenwriter and playwright Leonard Spigelgass, Mrs. Roth married in Paris and stayed there in the decade after World War II, where her husband photographed hundreds of European celebrities. Her “Portraits of the Fifties,” “Paris in the Fifties,” and “Italy, 1950s,” became symbols of the postwar era. Her other books include “The Cosmopolitan Cat,” “Los Angeles: An Unusual Guide to Unusual Shopping” and “The International Beauty Book.” She also published many interviews with actor James Dean, a close friend. In Los Angeles of cancer on Oct. 21.