HIATUS ENCORE: Edna Ferber — So Big with Dr. Caroline Frick

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New full-length episodes beginning Jan. 30. Edna Ferber’s So Big was the top-selling novel of 1924 and it won a Pulitzer Prize, yet it’s little known now! Wildly popular in its day, So Big was adapted for film three times, the second of which (in 1932) starred Barbara Stanwyck and featured a young Bette Davis in one of her earliest roles. Join us for a discussion of the book and the 1932 film with Dr. Caroline Frick from the Department of Radio-Television-Film at University of Texas, Austin.
Discussed in this episode:
So Big by Edna Ferber (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Big_(novel))
Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation by Caroline Frick (jstor.org/stable/41756167)
Texas Archive of the Moving Image (texasarchive.org)
L.A. Story (1991 film) (imdb.com/title/tt0102250)
Showboat by Edna Ferber (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat_(novel))
Cimarron by Edna Ferber (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimarron_(novel))
Algonquin Round Table (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Round_Table)
Anti-Semitism (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish
Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber (amazon.com/Buttered-Side-Down-Stories-Ferber/d…)
Dawn O’Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber (amazon.com/Dawn-OHara-Girl-Who-Laughed/dp/1604…)
Alan Hale (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hale_Sr.)
Skipper on Gilligan's Island (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hale_Jr.)
My Antonia by Willa Cather (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_%C3%81ntonia)
pre-code Hollywood (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood)
MPAA rating system (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Associati…)
Barbara Stanwyck (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck)
So Big (1932 film) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Big_(1932_film))
Baby Face (1933 film) (imdb.com/title/tt0023775)
Cabbage Patch Kid (cabbagepatchkids.com)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher and The Home-Maker on Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 9 (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/9-dorothy-canfield…)
Warner Bros. (warnerbros.com)
Cimarron (1931 film) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimarron_(1931_film))
Academy Award (oscars.org)
Bette Davis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Davis)
The Farmer’s Wife (1998 PBS documentary) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer%27s_Wife_(199…))
Giant (1956 film) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_(1956_film))
Thomas Hardy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy)
Pulitzer Prize (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize)
Colleen Moore (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Moore)
So Big (1924 film) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Big_(1924_film))
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