Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller (actually Alice Maude Duer, born July 28, 1874 in New York; † August 22, 1942 ibid ) was an American writer, poet, stage and film writer and feminist.

Life

Alice Duer came from a wealthy New York banking family, on May 5, 1893 lost her family in the stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange the bulk of their assets. In 1895, Alice Duer studied mathematics and astronomy at the prestigious Barnard College in New York. She financed her studies including through the publication of their literary works. Together with her sister Caroline brought out at this time also a book of poetry. 1899 doctorate Alice Duer and married in the same year the wealthy Henry Wise Miller. Shortly after their marriage the young couple moved to Costa Rica, where her husband owned a rubber plantation. 1903, the couple returned with his son back to New York, where her husband made ​​a fortune with stocks. Alice Duer Miller was able to concentrate on writing. As a women's rights activist, she published a series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune. Your first success as a writer Alice Duer Miller had in 1916 with her ​​book, Come Out of the Kitchen. The story was as a play on Broadway and made ​​into a film in 1948 as Spring in Park Lane in England with Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding. In the 1920s and 1930s was followed by other short novels, many of which were staged or filmed as a stage piece, such as Irene in 1940, again a film starring Anna Naegle. On their stories are based, among other things, Are Partens People, never marry the first time with Joan Crawford on the story Forsaking All Others and Roberta, a Muscial with Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after the story Gowns by Roberta. 1944 MGM filmed her dramatic poem The White Cliffs of Dover with Irene Dunne. Your successful story was The Charm School about a young man who inherits a girls' boarding school, which was adapted into a successful Broadway play and was filmed by Paramount Pictures since 1921 several times under the title and beyond in numerous variations.

Alice Duer Miller died on August 22, 1942 in New York and was buried in the cemetery in Morristown.