Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palace (Warner) is the sort of film that will be described by misogynists as a good women's picture. The tearful vapidity of Edna Ferber's outsize novel about Alaska is faithfully reflected. Troths are plighted ("Would you, could you . . ."), then blighted ("Doesn't my happiness mean anything to you?"). Love goes unrequited; yet, by adroit plotting, there is plenty of childbirth, all of it calamitous. And as the plot perambulates through three generations, the Kleenex-crumpling goes on and on for the better part of three hours...
Actor Ryan's plane has crashed on a glacier. Will Actor Burton rescue his enemy before Warner Bros, runs out of celluloid? A more chilling question, for everyone except possibly the inhabitants of Rhode Island: After Texas (Giant) and Alaska, where will Edna Ferber strike next...