Edna Ferber
1) So Big
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Description
A rollicking panarama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.
2) Show Boat
Author
Series
Description
Tells the story of Magnolia Ravenal and of her marriage to the river gambler, Gaylord Ravenal, black sheep son of an aristocratic family. It is also the story of their daughter Kim, who became a famous Broadway actress.
6) Giant
Author
Pub. Date
1952
Description
Saga of a woman who leaves her home in Virginia to live with her new husband in Texas at the time of the great petroleum discoveries.
11) Show boat
Pub. Date
1951.
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
12) Giant
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Based on Edna Ferber's epic novel of a wealthy Texas cattle rancher who marries a strong-willed Virginia woman and the problems they encounter with politics and prejudices of the time.
13) Dinner at eight
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It is a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multi-starred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber...
14) Cimarron
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
April 22, 1889. Tens of thousands of hopeful homesteaders are poised at the Oklahoma border, waiting for the gunshots that will send them on a feverish dash to claim a share of two million acres free for the taking.
15) Stage door
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
16) Show boat
Series
Criterion collection volume 1021
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat.