Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and playwright.
Edna Ferber Biography / Wiki
Name | Edna Ferber |
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Gender | Female |
Known For | Writing |
Place of Birth | Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA |
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Age(as in 2022) | 0 |
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Edna Ferber Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
The Ten-Year Lunch | Herself (archive footage) | 1987-09-28 | The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table grou… |
Writing
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Giant | Novel | 1956-11-08 | Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She m… |
Show Boat | Novel | 1936-05-17 | Despite her mother’s objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company’s new leading lady…. |
Cimarron | Novel | 1931-02-09 | When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his fa… |
Saratoga Trunk | Novel | 1945-11-21 | An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostra… |
Cimarron | Novel | 1960-12-01 | The epic story of a family that’s involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889…. |
Show Boat | Novel | 1951-07-19 | A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat…. |
So Big! | Novel | 1932-04-30 | A farmer’s widow takes on the land and her late husband’s tempestuous son…. |
Gigolo | Novel | 1926-10-03 | The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who’… |
The Expert | Theatre Play | 1932-03-05 | An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago…. |
The Expert | Story | 1932-03-05 | An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago…. |
Dinner at Eight | Theatre Play | 1933-12-22 | An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t… |
Come and Get It | Novel | 1936-11-06 | An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman’s daughter…. |
Glamour | Writer | 1934-04-09 | … |
No Place to Go | Theatre Play | 1939-09-23 | An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he befri… |
The Royal Family | Writer | 1977-11-09 | George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood… |
Ice Palace | Novel | 1960-01-02 | Alaska: America’s last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon… |
So Big | Novel | 1924-12-28 | After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father i… |
The Royal Family of Broadway | Author | 1930-12-22 | Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a br… |
Stage Door | Theatre Play | 1937-10-07 | The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a the… |
Dinner at Eight | Writer | 1989-12-11 | Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husban… |
So Big | Author | 1953-10-31 | After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with th… |
The Home Girl | Story | 1928-12-01 | A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins…. |
No Woman Knows | Novel | 1921-09-19 | In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods st… |
A Gay Old Dog | Story | 1919-11-02 | … |
Show Boat | Writer | 1929-07-27 | This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber’s boo… |
Our Mrs. McChesney | Theatre Play | 1918-09-09 | Mrs. Emma McChesney is a determined and successful traveling saleswoman for T. A. Buck’s Featherbloom Petticoat Company. When Buck dies and his son, T… |
Welcome Home | Theatre Play | 1925-05-17 | Fred Prouty and his wife, Nettie, are living happily until the day that his aged father shows up on their doorstep. He immediately begins creating hav… |
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