based onEdna Ferber’s1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, featured two iconic Hollywood actors, but in 1932 only one of them,Barbara Stanwyck, was a bankable star. The film also featured the soon-to-be-famousBette Davis, who had a much smaller role but was nevertheless grateful to be cast ...
For Edna Ferber, this is strange. Gaylord Ravenal of Showboat was a handsome, weak dandy, fascinating but hardly memorable. But in his very weakness, he was human and real.Yancey Cravat in Cimarron is far more picturesque than Ravenal — a great, vital fellow, lawyer and editor,...
Edna Ferber was an American novelist and short-story writer who wrote with compassion and curiosity about Midwestern American life. Ferber grew up mostly in her native Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in Appleton, Wisconsin (in between her family moved to severa