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Fannie Hurst (October 19, 1885, – February 23, 1968) was an American novelist. Hurst was also active in the "single tax" (Georgist) and women's suffrage movements.
Although her novels are not popular today, she had considerable success with Stardust (1919), Lummox (1923), A President is Born (1927), Back Street (1931), and Imitation of Life (1933).
Hurst is now best known for film adaptations of her works, particularly the 1934 film Imitation of Life and its 1959 remake, starring Lana Turner and John Gavin. The 1946 Joan Crawford film drama, Humoresque, also is based on a story by Hurst.
Hurst was born in Hamilton, Ohio, to Rose Koppel (Hurst) and Samuel Hurst, and was the only surviving child of this wealthy family. She spent the first twenty years of her life in St. Louis, Missouri, where she attended Washington University in St. Louis and graduated in 1909. After graduating from Washington University, Hurst moved to New York City in 1911 to pursue her writing. Working as a waitress in Child's and as a salesgirl, acting bit parts on Broadway, attending night court sessions and wandering through the slums, the young author became “passionately anxious to awake in others a general sensitiveness to small people,” an awareness of “causes, including the lost and the threatened.” Her stories appeared mostly in the Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan and eventually earned her as much as $5,000 each. She wrote her first novel, Star-Dust, in 1921. In 1915 she married Jacques S. Danielson of New York, a pianist, but the marriage was not announced until five years later.
Based on Fanny Hurst's classic novel of the star-crossed romance between a prominent married man and an Ohio farm woman. Director - John M Stahl Producer - Carl Laemmle, Jr Story - Fannie Hurst Cast Irene Dunne ... Ray Schmidt John Boles ... Walter D. Saxel June Clyde ... Freda Schmidt George Meeker ... Kurt Shendler Zasu Pitts ... Mrs. Dole I do not own the rights to this film.
Fannie Hurst's four-hankie bestseller had been filmed before in 1934, but Douglas Sirk's 1959 remake, his last Hollywood film, is the one to remember. Derided at the time by critics and audiences, it has come to sum up Sirk's serial attack on the hypocritical institutions of family and motherhood as practiced in '50s America. http://www.trailersfromhell.com
LibriVox's Short Story 056: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Tolstoy, Gelett Burgess, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry and a number of American women writers. Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal Image: http://archive.org/download/LibrivoxCdCoverArt32/SSC_056_1308.jpg Cover image by James Tissot (d. 1902). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU, and all countries with author's life +70 years laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.
LibriVox's Short Story 056: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Tolstoy, Gelett Burgess, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry and a number of American women writers. Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal Image: http://archive.org/download/LibrivoxCdCoverArt32/SSC_056_1308.jpg Cover image by James Tissot (d. 1902). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU, and all countries with author's life +70 years laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.
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In the years after World War I, Hurst became famous as an author of extremely popular short stories and novels, many of which were made into films. Her popularity continued for several decades, only beginning to decline after World War II. Throughout her life, Hurst also actively worked and spoke on behalf of social justice organizations and causes supporting feminism and African-American civil rights, and occasionally supported other oppressed groups such as Jewish refugees (although she chose not to support some other Jewish causes), homosexuals, and prisoners. She was also appointed to several committees associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs.
It's desperation in my face from
a lifetime of pain and isolation
Everyday is just the fucking same
I want to change but I can't get my foot in any door
Every time I knock there's nobody home
But what's the point in waiting outside alone
The doors are locked and there's no windows
And outside it's always thirty below
It's desperation in my face from
a lifetime of pain and isolation
Everyday is just the fucking same
I want to change but I can't get my foot in any door
Every time I knock there's nobody home
But what's the point in waiting outside alone
The doors are locked and there's no windows
And outside it's always thirty below
Just when I feel like it might not be so bad
It always kicks and tells me where I stand
All this strife and all these tears
And all this anger from all these years
Has left me broken and is what keeps me here