@book{247,
  keywords = {Scots-Irish Americans, ministers, actors and actresses, Works Progress Administration, housewives, Protestants, Jewish Americans},
  author = {Gladys Schmitt},
  title = {Alexandra},
  abstract = {Alexandra, unappreciated as a child, falls in love with a ruthless actor who breaks her heart. The story is told through Sophie Littman, a Squirrel Hill Jewish housewife whose husband is a mathematician. },
  year = {1947},
  pages = {316 p.},
  publisher = {Dial Press},
  address = {New York},
  note = {Carnegie Mellon University is referred to as Carnegie Technical Institute, as it was then known.

MGM bought film rights to this novel in 1947 for June Allyson but never produced it. Julie Harris tried and failed to bring its stage play adaptation to Broadway in the 1950s.},
  language = {English},
}