year was made into a film starring Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, and Ginger Rogers. Brush, however, is probably best known today for her subsequent novel Red-Headed Woman, which was made into a film in 1932 starring Jean Harlow which was considered a pre-code classic for its racy humor; playwright Anita Loos adapted the story for the screen. In 1936, Katharine Brush christened the USCGC Ingham; the new cutter was formally commissioned on 12 September 1936; it would later be decommissioned in 1988. The ship was named after one of her ancestors, American politician Samuel D. Ingham, and this incident was discussed in her 1940 autobiographical collection of works, This Is On Me. It also featured a story about what in the 1970s became known as latchkey children) . Critics praised the book for its honesty in showing the development of Brush's talent, by including some early works that were not as impressive, and then moving on to her well-received later works. In addition, the book was said to offer a behind-the-scenes look at how Brush went from obscurity to success as an author. Ironically, Brush (whose nickname was "Kay") frequently told friends that despite being popular and critically acclaimed, she worried that after she died, she would probably be forgotten. In 1967, only 15 years after her death, a critic who had known her noted that in fact, fewer and fewer people remembered who she was. Later years and legacy Her first marriage ended in divorce; she moved to New York City and remarried in 1929, to businessman Hubert Charles "Bobby" Winans, but that marriage ended in divorce in 1941. She was the mother of one child, Thomas, with her first husband. She died after a long illness, in New York: some sources say she was 49, but some sources say she was 52. At the time when she took ill, she had been working on a new novel, to be called "Lover Come Back." Her son Thomas, who became a newspaper executive and a patron of the arts, donated the funding for a new library in her memory to the Loomis Chaffee School of Windsor, CT, in 1968. The building, designed by architect Kenneth DeMay of Hideo Sasaki's firm Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates (now Sasaki Associates), is still in use today at the school. The Katharine Brush Library contains a larger than life-size portrait by Leon Gordon of Katharine