The pre-Code dramaSo Big!,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 never...
This chapter focuses on teaching Wharton's The House of Mirth alongside Ferber's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, So Big. Guiding students through a series of scaffolded assignments, reading the texts simultaneously in serial form to facilitate direct comparison, and building small-group Venn diagrams ...
Pulitzer Prize Notable Works: “Cimarron” “Saratoga Trunk” “Show Boat” “So Big” See all related content Edna Ferber(born August 15, 1885,Kalamazoo,Michigan, U.S.—died April 16, 1968,New York, New York) was an American novelist and short-story writer who wrote with compassion and ...