Edna Ferber

Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husband.

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.

George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood, the Cavendishes are as flamboyant offstage as they are on. Their real-life family drama occurs in a Manhattan apartment when the grand matriarch, Fanny Cavendish, learns that her daughter and granddaughter may both be giving up the stage for marriage. Theatre legends Rosemary Harris, Eva LeGallienne, Sam Levene and Ellis Rabb have great fun portraying characters they know all too well from their years on stage.

O Oklahoma Land Run de abril de 1889 define o cenário para uma saga épica de um aventureiro de fronteira, sua esposa, sua família e seus amigos. A saga épica de uma família de fronteira, Cimarron começa com o Oklahoma Land Rush em 22 de abril de 1889. A família Cravet transforma seu jornal Oklahoma Wigwam em um império comercial e Yancey Cravet é o idealista aventureiro que, para a raiva de sua esposa, desperdiça a oportunidade de se tornar governador, pois isso significa ajudar a espoliar os nativos americanos de suas terras e recursos.

Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader Thor Storm (Robert Ryan), two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.

O rico fazendeiro Bick Benedict e o pobre caubói Jett Rink cortejam Leslie Lynnton, uma bela jovem de Maryland que é nova no Texas. Ela se casa com Benedict, mas ela fica chocada com o preconceito racial dos brancos texanos contra o povo local de origem mexicana. Rink descobre petróleo num pequeno pedaço de terra, e enquanto ele usa sua vasta e nova riqueza para comprar toda a terra em torno da fazenda de Benedict, a discordância de Benedict sobre preconceitos abastece conflitos por gerações.

After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.

Magnolia Hawks vive no Cotton Blossom, barco de shows de seu pai, o Capitão Andy. Ela conhece o jogador Gaylord Ravenal na cidade à beira do rio, e se apaixona por ele. Na mesma tarde, durante o ensaio para o show daquele dia, a estrela Julie e seu marido e co-estrela Steve são forçados a deixar a companhia. Gaylord é contratado para ocupar o lugar de Steve, enquanto Magnolia ocupa o lugar de Julie. Eles se apaixonam e casam. Deixando o barco de shows, 'Nola, Gay e sua pequena filha, Kim, se mudam para Chicago, onde sua fortuna cresce ou mingua dependendo da sorte de Gay. Enfim, ele abandona sua esposa e filha, e ela é forçada a retornar aos palcos, onde ela se torna uma estrela.

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.

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.

Terry Randall, linda socialite, decidiu ver se consegue entrar em cena teatral na Broadway sem suas conexões familiares. Ela vai morar em uma pensão teatral e vê sua vida igual as dos outros moradores, ou seja, a sempre presente decepção que aspirantes teatrais devem tolerar. Sua companheira de quarto faladeira, Jean, é abordado por um produtor poderoso para mais do que apenas um papel. E o pai de Terry decidiu dar a sua carreira um empurrão ao apoiar uma produção para ela estrelar, no qual ela será certamente um fracasso. Mas suas maquinações doem mais do que apenas em Terry.

Wyoming, década de 1880. Lenhador Barney Glasgow despreza a amada Lotta Morgan, cantora de saloon, em favor de um casamento por interesse com Emma Louise, filha do patrão. Seu amigo Swan Bostrom une-se a Lotta. Barney enriquece derrubando árvores sem o cuidado de replantá-las. Anos mais tarde, tanto ele quanto o filho Richard apaixonam-se pela filha de Lotta e Swan, também chamada Lotta e também muito parecida com a mãe.

Num barco de espetáculos teatrais que desce o Mississippi, surgem problemas quando a filha do dono apaixona-se por ator e jogador. Paralelamente, mulata que esconde sua origem tem problemas com a lei racista.

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. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.

An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.

Quarenta anos da história norte-americana, em um período compreendido entre 1889 e 1929, são vistos através dos olhos de Yancey Cravat, um editor de jornal e o homem da lei de Oklahoma. Ele deixa suas terras em Wichita, chegando em Osage com sua família, mas logo sente-se ocioso novamente, com a rotina, e decide ir para Cherokee Strip, deixando sua família para trás. Sua mulher, Sabra, precisa então aprender a viver por conta própria. Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Filme, foi o primeiro do gênero faroeste a conseguir tal proeza (fato que só se repetiu mais duas vezes, com Dança com Lobos e Os Imperdoáveis). Faturou ainda as estatuetas de Melhor Direção de Arte e Melhor Roteiro Adaptado.

Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.

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. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel

A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.

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. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother, now broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband....

Fred Prouty and his wife, Nettie, are living happily until the day that his aged father shows up on their doorstep. He immediately begins creating havoc, upsetting the once-orderly household and trying to force his opinions on everyone. Nettie does her best to be patient with the old man, but the day comes when he brings a group of his pals over while she is holding a meeting of a fashionable club.

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. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."

In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods store.

Mrs. Emma McChesney is a determined and successful traveling saleswoman for T. A. Buck's Featherbloom Petticoat Company. When Buck dies and his son, T. A. Buck, Jr., takes charge, the company suffers and Emma nearly accepts a job offer from Buck's rival, Abel Fromkin.