I have yet to see the film, I am not sure if I want to (I do). The book is a fab. melodrama set in the years of America and Europe 1849-1930 a "Fly Girl" Ray Schmidt falls for a Jewish Man she meets at a rail station. Impossible for any chance to marry; Ray become his lover, a lifetime follows these two. His Jewish wife and children, his success. All this time, Ray is kept, with no income other than the dollars he leaves in the Bisque figurine on the table. His sudden death leaves Ray elderly and alone with no way to support her self; she had always used her impeccable style to get by. Ray was a virgin until her affair, It was always assumed she was loose because she had "Style". Torrid writing for a 1930-31 novel, Fannie Hurst, a classic. I read it last week, and am now reading it again.
