Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICAN BEAUTY - Edna Ferber - Doubleday, Doran...
...behooves them to justify their popularity by infusing their entertainment with a Message. American Beauty's Message: from the mixture in the U. S. melting pot of inbred aristocracy and peasant stock will come a new & nobler breed. But you do not have to pay attention to Edna Ferber's Message to enjoy her story...
...Edna Ferber, novelist . . . Litt.D...
...Royal Family Of Broadway", the screen version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman, is not so much a motion picture as it is a photograph of a play. Being written for the legitimate stage, the Hollywood director has done nothing to adapt the original script to the peculiarities of the camera. The result is satisfactory in as much as it fulfills the purpose of the authors as they wrote for the stage, but all of the possibilities of a picture were not realized...
Cimarron (RKO). Edna Ferber's story of the birth and growth of the State of Oklahoma as reflected in the life of a newspaperman and his family was brilliantly cinematic in print and is vivid and memorable journalism as a cinema. It is a long, full-bodied picture, paced so deftly that although it covers more than half a century of crowded, changing events, it never drags and is rarely jerky. Westward goes Richard Dix with his wife (Irene Dunne) to start a newspaper in the town of Osage, Okla., which has sprung into a population...