Edna Ferber Trailers
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and playwright.
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and playwright.
Total trailers found: 30
30 April 1932
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
08 October 1937
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 theatrical hostel.
31 October 1953
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.
11 December 1989
Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husband.
28 December 1924
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den.
26 January 1931
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 family there from Wichita.
01 December 1960
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
08 November 1956
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.
02 January 1960
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields.
22 December 1930
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting.
27 July 1929
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 book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married.
06 November 1936
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.
05 March 1932
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
23 September 1939
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 befriends a neighborhood child with a troubled family life.
27 October 1989
A stage production of the classic musical, videotaped in front of a live audience at the Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey.
09 November 1977
George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan.
01 December 1928
A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.
17 May 1925
Fred Prouty and his wife, Nettie, are living happily until the day that his aged father shows up on their doorstep.
28 October 1928
A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
19 July 1951
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
09 September 1918
Mrs. Emma McChesney is a determined and successful traveling saleswoman for T. A. Buck's Featherbloom Petticoat Company.
17 May 1936
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.
21 November 1945
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
22 December 1933
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple.
19 September 1921
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods store.
28 September 1987
The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s.
03 October 1926
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's married her for her money.