Biography
Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story "Old Man Minick", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go.
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Filmography
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Movies 30
Writer 27
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Dinner at Eight (1989)
Movie
Herself (archive footage)
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
Movie
Writer
The Royal Family (1977)
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Writer
Cimarron (1960)
Movie
Writer
Ice Palace (1960)
Movie
Novel
Giant (1956)
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Writer
So Big (1953)
Movie
Writer
Show Boat (1951)
Movie
Writer
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
Movie
Writer
No Place to Go (1939)
Movie
Theatre Play
Stage Door (1937)
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Writer
Come and Get It (1936)
Movie
Writer
Show Boat (1936)
Movie
1
Writer
Glamour (1934)
Movie
Writer
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Movie
4
Writer
So Big! (1932)
Movie
Writer
The Expert (1932)
Movie
Writer
Cimarron (1931)
Movie
Writer
The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
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Writer
Hard to Get (1929)
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Show Boat (1929)
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Writer
The Home Girl (1928)
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Writer
Mother Knows Best (1928)
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Writer
Gigolo (1926)
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Writer
Classified (1925)
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Writer
Welcome Home (1925)
Movie
Writer
So Big (1924)
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Writer
No Woman Knows (1921)
Movie
Writer
A Gay Old Dog (1919)
Movie
Writer
Our Mrs. McChesney (1918)
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Information
Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1885-08-15
Deathday1968-04-16 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceKalamazoo, United States of America
RelativesJanet Fox
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesNew York City · Appleton · Kalamazoo, United States of America
AwardsMichigan Women's Hall of Fame, Distinguished Americans series, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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