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It's 1957, Fairbanks, Alaska and Jack Mabie claims to be the meanest man in the territory, having robbed and murdered his way through the gold rush days. When he is found beaten to death followed soon after by two more violent deaths, Edna believes the three murders are connected. Meanwhile, debates rage over potential statehood.
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A sweltering July in Chicago, 1923. Edna Ferber, now a famous short-story writer, is supposed to be researching the novel that will become So Big, her Pulitzer-Prize winner. With her mother, Julia, she spends the week visiting her mother's old childhood friend, Esther Newmann, who lives with her family on the edge of the bustling Maxwell Street Jewish marketplace. But the awful specter of a scandalous murder fifteen years before suddenly haunts Edna....
6) Mood indigo
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Edna Ferber and Noel Coward attempt to clear the name of a mutual acquaintence accused of murdering an aspiring Broadway actress.
7) Stage door
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"Stars galore shine in this nominee for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture. A fast, witty story of aspiring actresses living at a theatrical boarding house. Based on an Edna Ferber/George S. Kaufman play, the tale was considerably rewritten for film, so much that Kaufman quipped it should be called Screen Door. What matters most to an acting hopeful is an open door. With humor and heart, this excellent movie suggests some things matter more"...
8) Make believe
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In June 1951, author Edna Ferber is in Hollywood to support Max Jeffries, an old friend who has been blacklisted as a Communist in the McCarthy hearings. Max was part of the new Hollywood production of the film Show Boat, based on Ferber's novel, but has now been expelled from the MGM lot and shunned by his friends. When Max ends up dead, Edna must search for answers. She plays sleuth quietly, becoming involved with not only Show Boat star Ava Gardner...
9) Show boat
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Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
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"January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two...
11) Cimarron
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"A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd ..."--Prologue from title screens. Cimarron is a sprawling...
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In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s. Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era, Meade gives us Parker, Fitzgerald, Millay, and Ferber, traces the intersections of their lives, and describes...
14) Show boat
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Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat.
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East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
Giant (1956): Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and...
18) So big
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"After her mother dies, Selina Peake's father takes her to Chicago, where she attends a finishing school. When her father is killed, leaving her penniless, Selina's friends learn that he was a gambler and drop her. Only Julie Hemple helps her, persuading her father, August Hemple, to get Selina a job as a schoolteacher in a small Dutch community near Chicago. There, Selina lives with a farm family, helping their adoring son Roelf with his lessons....