Alice Duer Miller

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Alice Duer Miller, around 1920

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

Life

Alice Duer came from a wealthy New York banking family , on May 5, 1893, her family lost most of their assets in the crash on the New York Stock Exchange . In 1895 Alice Duer studied mathematics and astronomy at the prestigious Barnard College in New York. She financed her studies, among other things, by publishing her literary works. Together with her sister Caroline, she brought out a volume of poetry during this time. Alice Duer received her doctorate in 1899 and married the wealthy Henry Wise Miller that same year. Shortly after the marriage, the young couple moved to Costa Rica , where their husband owned a rubber plantation . In 1903 the couple returned to New York with their son, where their husband made a fortune in stocks.

Alice Duer Miller could concentrate entirely on writing. As a suffragette , she published a number of satirical poems in the New York Tribune . Alice Duer Miller had her first success as a writer in 1916 with her book Come Out of the Kitchen . The story was staged as a play on Broadway and filmed in 1948 as Spring in Park Lane , England with Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding . In the 1920s and 1930s, other short novels followed, some of which were staged as stage plays or filmed, such as Irene in 1940 , again filmed with Anna Naegle. Her stories include Are Partens People , Never Marry First Time with Joan Crawford based on the story Forsaking All Others and Roberta , a musical with Irene Dunne , Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers based on the story Gowns by Roberta . In 1944 MGM filmed her dramatic poem The White Cliffs of Dover with Irene Dunne. Her most successful story was The Charm School about a young man who inherits a boarding school for girls, which was adapted into a successful Broadway play and has been filmed several times by Paramount Pictures since 1921 under the title and in numerous variations.

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

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SURNAME Duer Miller, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alice Maude Duer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, poet, and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1942
Place of death new York