of the public eye. She also never remarried; she continued to live with her parents in Pelham Manor. Her father died of a heart attack in 1933. Her mother died of a stroke in December 1938. Alice Jones died in a Westchester hospital on September 13, 1989, of a heart attack caused by a stroke and hypertension. Her bank account contained $25,000 and she owned a one-third interest in her family home on Pelham Road, worth about $70,000. Her death certificate indicated that she had spent nearly a year in hospitalization. It showed her name as "Alice Jones," but when she was buried in Beechwoods Cemetery in New Rochelle, it was with a gravestone that bore the name "Alice J. Rhinelander." The Rhinelander Case in the Arts The case's depiction of interracial marriage influenced some of the literature and art of this period. The writer Nella Larsen, in her famous novel Passing, tells the story of Clare Kendry, a biracial woman who passes as caucasian and marries a white man. She passes in order to get away from her past troubles in terms of race and class, both of which arise in the Rhinelander case. In the novel, Clare marries John Bellew, a wealthy white man, who is not aware of her true racial identity. The literature as well as the Rhinelander case explore the complexity of racial identity in a public institution such as marriage. The Rhinelander Case also appears in Oscar Micheaux's films, “The House Behind the Cedars” and “Thirty Years Later.” The case also served as the basis for the movie Night of the Quarter Moon (1959), starring Julie London and John Drew Barrymore. Case citation Leonard Rhinelander v. Alice Rhinelander; 219 A.D. 189; 219 N.Y.S. 548; Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department (1927). Footnotes References Carlson, A. Cheree. (1999) "'You Know It When You See It:' The Rhetorical Hierarchy of Race and Gender in Rhinelander V. Rhinelander." Quarterly Journal of Speech 85 (1999): 111–128, . External links Composograph of Alice Rhinelander, 1925, American Photography, PBS Nov. 17, 1925 Ltr from Andrew F. Jackson, manager of Cinema News Service, to the manager (probably William M. Smith, manager of the Douglass Theatre) advertising newsreels, including one from the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander trial, Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre, The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s, Digital Library of Georgia Heidi Ardizzone