So Big is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander and Robert...
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of the book, following a 1924 silent film with Colleen Moore and So Big! with Barbara Stanwyck, released in 1932. In the late 1890s, boarding school student...
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So Big is a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber. The book was inspired by the life of Antje Paarlberg in the Dutch community of South Holland, Illinois,...
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So Big (1932 film), a 1932 film adaptation starring Barbara Stanwyck So Big (1953 film), a 1953 film adaptation directed by Robert Wise So Big! (book)...
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Monster Story,Forbidden Love, and Nature's Mistakes) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning, starring Wallace...
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So Big is a 1924 American silent film based on Edna Ferber's 1924 novel of the same name which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1925. It was produced...
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The Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy...
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cinematography, big ideas, and powerful work from a trio of legendary Hollywood leads." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of...
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Reviews by film critics were overwhelmingly positive at the time. Variety led off its review with: "An elegant example of super film making and a big money...
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Cimarron (novel) (category American novels adapted into films)
silent Our Mrs. McChesney, based on a play Ferber had written. So Big was released as a film the same year it was published as a novel, and adaptations of...
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The Royal Family (play) (category American plays adapted into films)
in 1930 by Herman Mankiewicz for the film The Royal Family of Broadway, released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by George Cukor and Cyril...
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Cimarron is a 1960 American epic Western film based on the 1930 Edna Ferber novel Cimarron. The film stars Glenn Ford and Maria Schell and was directed...
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Leonard - A 1932 review in TIME Magazine described the film as "a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story Old Man Minick." According to a 1932 review...
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to take over a film started by someone else, but Goldwyn threatened him with suspension if he refused to accept the assignment. He did so reluctantly, and...
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from the stage production as he could to work on the film. (Florenz Ziegfeld, who died in 1932, had originally produced Show Boat onstage.) Winninger...
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comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz, based on George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's 1932 play...
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Show Boat is a 1951 American musical romantic drama film, based on the 1927 stage musical of the same name by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein...
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Stage Door (redirect from Stage Door (film))
names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called "Screen Door". Terry Randall (Katharine...
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Show Boat (section Film and television)
premiere production, the 1932 Broadway revival, the 1936 film version and a 1940 stage revival in Los Angeles. Reviewing the 1932 Broadway revival, the critic...
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Saratoga Trunk (category Template film date with 2 release dates)
Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 American Western film (or historical romance film, per the American Film Institute) directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper...
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Stage Door (play) (category American plays adapted into films)
successful Broadway plays, The Royal Family (1927) and Dinner at Eight (1932). On New Year's Eve of 1935, the team met to discuss potential projects,...
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The Royal Family of Broadway (category Template film date with 1 release date)
The Royal Family of Broadway is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner and released by Paramount Pictures. The...
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Show Boat (novel) (category American novels adapted into films)
and less so a social reality." Novels portal Show Boat – Broadway musical Show Boat (1929 film) Show Boat (1936 film) Show Boat (1951 film) Ferber, Edna...
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Bigger (styled as Bigger: The Joe Weider Story) is a 2018 American comedy drama film by director George Gallo about the life of real life bodybuilders...
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film version of the stage musical, which had become a smash hit and was still playing on Broadway at the same time that the 1929 film premiered. So,...
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Mouse films. The early films released by Celebrity Productions (1928–1929) and Columbia Pictures (1930–1932) were distributed by region and state, so there...
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ascent from night-court reporter at a small-town newspaper to the author of So Big is set against the rising tensions in Europe and upsurging antisemitism...
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Grand Hotel is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by William A. Drake...
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Bird of Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic adventure drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea. Based on...
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