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Edna
Ferber
(1885 - 1968 )
Page finalised 9th
October, 2010.
Just
ONE page on the Collecting Books and
Magazines web site based in Australia.
Thanks to Jo
Robins and Sue Tredrea for this page.
Edna Ferber was
born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.A., but grew up
in Appleton, Wisconsin. Her first ambition was to
become an actress. However, at the age of 17,
when her father went blind, she took a newspaper
job with the Appleton Daily Crescent and went on
to become a playwright and to write books about
the colourful life of America in the 1800’s.
Much of her work became successful films and Show
Boat was made into a popular musical comedy.
Bibliographical
information has been assembled from several
sources and may not be complete.
1911 Dawn
O’Hara
1912 Buttered Side Down (stories)
1913 Roast Beef Medium: The Business Adventures
of Emma McChesney and Her Son Jock
1914 Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma
McChesney
1915 Emma McChesney & Co.
1917 Fanny Herself
1918 Cheerful, By Request (stories)
1920 Half Portions
1921 The Girls
1922 The Gigalo [re-released 1923 as Among those
present]
1924 So Big 1925 PULITZER PRIZE
1926 Show Boat
1927 Mother Knows Best
1930 Cimarron
1931 American Beauty
1933 They Brought Their Women (stories)
1935 Come and Get It
1938 Nobody’s in Town (includes Trees Die At
The Top)
1939 A Peculiar Treasure Autobiography
1941 No Room at the Inn (stories)
1941 Saratoga Trunk
1945 Great Son
1947 One Basket Thirty-One Stories
1952 Giant
1958 Ice Palace
1963 A Kind of Magic Autobiography
Plays
1915 Our
Mrs McChesney (with George S. Kaufman)
???? $1200 a Year (with Newman Levy)
???? Minick (with George S. Kaufman)
1925 The Eldest: A drama of American
Life
1927 The Royal Family (with George S.
Kaufman)
1932 Dinner at Eight (with George S.
Kaufman)
1936 Stage Door (with George S.
Kaufman)
1941 The Land is Bright (with George
S. Kaufman)
Film links
| Book
date |
Film
versions |
| 1924
So Big |
1925,
1932, 1953 |
- 1953
Blockbuster rating *** ½
CAST Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden,
Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest,
Martha Hyer, Tommy Rettig
DIRECTOR Robert Wise 101m
|
| 1926
Show boat |
1929,
1936, 1951 |
- 1936
Blockbuster rating *** ½
has Helen Morgan in role of
Julie, the mulatto who is the
target of racism and Paul Robeson
performing "Old Man
River" ALSO STARRING Irene
Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles
Winniger, Hattie McDaniel
DIRECTOR James Whale 113 m
- 1951
Blockbuster rating ****
CAST Kathryn Grayson, Ava
Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E.
Brown, Marge Champion, Gower
Champion, Agnes Moorhead, William
Warfield DIRECTOR George
Sidney 115m
|
| 1930
Cimarron |
1931,
1960 |
- 1931
Blockbuster rating *** ½
First Western to win BEST PICTURE
OSCAR, also won BEST SCREENPLAY
OSCAR
STARRED Richard Dix and Irene
Dunne DIRECTOR Wesley
Ruggles 125m
- 1960
Blockbuster rating *** ½
CAST Glenn Ford, Maria Schell,
Anne Baxter, Arthur
O’Connell, Russ Tamblyn,
Mercedes McCambridge,Vic Morrow,
Anne MacMahon DIRECTOR Anthony
Mann
|
| 1935
Come and Get It |
1936 |
- Blockbuster
rating ****
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR -
Walter Brennan
CAST Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea,
Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan,
Andrea Leeds
DIRECTOR Howard Hawks, William
Wyler 99m
|
| 1941
Saratoga Trunk |
1945 |
- Blockbuster
rating ***
CAST Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman,
Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John
Warburton, Florence Bates
DIRECTOR Sam Wood 135m
|
| 1952
Giant |
1956 |
- Blockbuster
rating *****
BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR - George
Stevens
CAST Elizabeth Taylor, Rock
Hudson, James Dean, Carroll
Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills,
Mercedes McCambridge, Sal Mineo
202m
|
| 1958
Ice Palace |
1960 |
- Blockbuster
rating ***
CAST Richard Burton,Robert Ryan,
Carolyn Jones, Martha Hyer, Ray
Danton
DIRECTOR Vincent Sherman 143m
|
| 1927
The Royal Family (with George S. Kaufman) |
1930
FILM TITLE The Royal Family Of Broadway |
- Blockbuster
rating ****
CAST Fredric March, Ina Claire,
Mary Brian, Henrietta Crossman,
Charles Starrett, Arnold Korff,
Frank Conroy
DIRECTOR George Cukor, Cyril
Gardner 82m
|
| 1932
Dinner at Eight (with George S. Kaufman) |
1933,
1990 |
- 1933
Blockbuster rating *****
CAST John Barrymore, Wallace
Beery, Marie Dressler, Jean
Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee
Tracy, Billie Burke, Edmund Lowe,
Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans
DIRECTOR George Cukor 111m
- 1990
Blockbuster rating *** Television
remake
CAST Lauren Bacall, Charles
Durning, Ellen Greene, Harry
Hamlin, John Mahoney, Marsha
Mason DIRECTOR Ron Lagomarsino
95m
|
| 1936
Stage Door (with George S. Kaufman) |
1937 |
- Blockbuster
rating *****
CAST Katherine Hepburn, Ginger
Rogers, Adophe Menjou, Andrea
Leeds, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden,
Ann Miller
DIRECTOR Gregory LaCava 92m
Has Hepburn’s signature
line, "The calla lillies are
in bloom again."
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