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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2020 23:13:44 GMT
Edna Ferber was born August 15, 1887 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Film Adaptations of her Novels, stories and plays include:
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2020 23:16:15 GMT
Edna Ferber with James Dean on the set of Giant |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2020 23:21:20 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Aug 14, 2020 23:51:31 GMT
Edna Ferber explored androgyny which doesn't always get mentioned. Her work inspired a young writer named Carson McCullers.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 14, 2020 23:54:11 GMT
Perhaps she wouldn't admit it, but everybody knew Ginger Rogers was a fun-loving, self-obsessed voyeur who enjoyed pretending to be a boy when she was younger.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 14, 2020 23:58:18 GMT
yet another version of  |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 15, 2020 0:03:21 GMT
I must admit I've never read an Edna Ferber novel.   As the great Carlotta Vance once uttered: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about. |
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 15, 2020 14:40:11 GMT
Everyone thinks of her as a novelist, which of course she was, but she was also a playwright, collaborating with George F. Kaufman on things like Dinner at Eight and the aforementioned Stage Door. But she was for me first and foremost a novelist. Of her books, I've read "Giant," "So Big," and "Cimarron." I also have a personal connection to her, because when she came to Oklahoma in the 1920s to research "Cimarron," she rented a room from my mother's aunt who lived in Pawnee at the time. I didn't learn that until I was in graduate school from the daughter of that aunt, but it was a treat to know that my relatives probably gave Ferber some info about the history of the state she was going to write about in the time before it was a state, at and after the opening of the Cherokee Strip land run.
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