A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Awardwinning movies the writing of her controversial, international bestselling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.The stupendous publication of Edna Ferbers Giant in 1952 set off a storm of protest over the novels portrayal of Texas manners, money and mores with oilrich Texans threatening to shoot, lynch or ban Ferber from ever entering the state again.In Giant Love, Julie Gilbert writes of the internationally bestselling Ferber, one of the most widely read writers in the first half of the 20th Century her evolution from midwest maverick girlreporter to Pulitzer Prize winning, beloved American novelist, from her wanttobe actress days to becoming Broadways acclaimed prizewinning playwright whose collaborators George S. Kauffman and Moss Hart, among them, were, along with Ferber, herself, the most successful playwrights of their time.Here is the making of an American classic novel and the film that followed in its wake. We see how George Stevens, AcademyAward winning director, wooed the prickly, stubborn Ferber, ultimately getting her to agree to everything including writing, for the first time ever, a draft of a screenplay, to her okaying James Dean for the part of the ranch hand, Jett Rink, something she was dead set against.Here is the casting...

Binding: Hardback;352 pages; Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Classification: BG; Weight: 744 g; Dimensions: 167 x 245 x 36

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