Stella Hammerstein year, she co-authored "Getting the Goods", a play for vaudeville. Hammerstein appeared in the films "The Ace of Death" (1915), "Anna Karenina" (1915), and "Social Hypocrites" (1918). In September 1919, approximately two months after the death of their father, Hammerstein and her sister, Rose Hammerstein Tostevain, became owners of the Hammerstein Amusement Company. A judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that the two daughters were the rightful owners of 4,998 shares of the company's total of 5,000 shares of stock. The ownership had been the subject of a legal dispute involving the sisters, Oscar
Oscar Hammerstein I own. Infamously, he compared paying his daughters to "the eccentricities and actions of the late lamented King Lear." Hammerstein contracted kidney problems and paralysis, eventually permanently falling into a coma. He died in 1919 in Lenox Hill Hospital at Park Avenue and 77th Street in Manhattan. His contractual ban on presenting opera was due to expire in 1920; at his death he was busy planning his return to the opera stage. A 1910 song by Jack Norworth entitled "For Months and Months and Months" references Hammerstein himself, during the first verse. The Manhattan Opera House was bid for $145,000 by