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Aline Bernstein (December 22, 1880 – September
7, 1955) was an American Tony Award-winning costume
designer. She and Irene Lewisohn founded the Museum of Costume Art. [1]
Early life
and family
She was born in 1880 in New York City to Rebecca and Joseph
Frankau, an actor. By the time she was 17, both of her parents had
died and she was raised by her aunt, Rachel Goldsmith. Goldsmith
had a theatrical boarding house on West 44th Street in New York
City. Aline married Theodore F. Bernstein, a Wall Street broker, on
November 19, 1902. Bernstein and her husband had two children:
Theodore Frankau Bernstein (1904-1949), and Mrs. Edla Cusick
(1906-1983).[2][3] She
died on September 7, 1955 in New York City, aged 74.[4]
Career
Bernstein was a writer, with two books published by Knopf.[5]
She was personal friends with Arthur and Blanche Knopf.[5]
Thomas
Wolfe
From 1925 to 1929, Bernstein was romantically linked to Thomas Wolfe, who
based the character Esther Jack on her, in his novels Of Time
and the River, The Web and the Rock, and You Can't Go Home Again
(1940). At the time of his death in 1938, Bernstein possessed some
of Wolfe's unpublished manuscripts.[5]
References
- ^
"1944". Playbill. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/68652.html. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
"Philanthropist Irene Lewisohn died today in New York City. She and
her sister Alice built and endowed the Neighborhood Playhouse. With
Aline Bernstein she founded the Museum of Costume Art on Fifth
Avenue in 1937"
- ^
"T. Bernstein, Partner in
Brokerage House". New York Times.
March 12, 1949. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0D12F63B5A157B93C0A81788D85F4D8485F9. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
"Theodore F. Bernstein, a partner in the brokerage house of Carl
Loeb, Rhoades Co., 61 Broadway, died yesterday in his office of
coronary thrombosis"
- ^
"Aline Bernstein". Jewish Virtual Library. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/abernstein.html. Retrieved
2008-12-16.
- ^
"Aline Bernstein, Designer,
Dead. Creator of Costumes and Scenes for Stage Wrote Novels and
Life Story". New York Times.
September 8, 1955. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0916FB3B5E127A93CAA91782D85F418585F9. Retrieved 2008-12-16. "... a
sister, Miss Ethel Frankau, and two grandchildren. A son, Theodore
Frankau Bernstein, died about seven years ago."
- ^ a
b
c
Mauldin, Joanne Marshall (2007).
Thomas Wolfe: When Do the Atrocities Begin?. University of
Tennessee Press. p. 229. ISBN
1572334940.
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