Screenplay: Edna Ferber

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds

Plot Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Rock Hudson · James Dean · Carroll Baker

Plot Texan rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie Benedict (Elizabeth...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marie Dressler · John Barrymore · Wallace Beery · Jean Harlow

Plot Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Her husband Oliver is in failing health, and he is also worried because someone is...

Direction Howard Hawks · William Wyler

Cast Edward Arnold · Joel McCrea · Frances Farmer · Walter Brennan

Plot Wisconsin lumberman Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold) makes his fortune by marrying his business associate's daughter to cinch a lucrative partnership, thereby sacrificing the one he truly loves, Lotta Morgan (Frances...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Glenn Ford · Maria Schell · Anne Baxter · Arthur O'Connell

Plot Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the life of an American family, from the 1890s through the 1920s, who move to Oklahoma territory. The epic western chronicles the founding of...

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Richard Dix · Irene Dunne · Estelle Taylor · William Collier Jr.

Plot The Best Picture of 1931 chronicles one family's experiences in the restless days of settling the American West. Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the story tracks the growth of...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · George Brent · Dickie Moore · Bette Davis

Plot Selina lived well until her father Simeon died. Her aunts sold the estate and put her in a boarding school. As an adult she wants to be a teacher in...

Direction George Sidney

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Ava Gardner · Howard Keel · Joe E. Brown

Plot The story, based on Edna Ferber's famous novel about life on a Mississippi show boat, tells parallel love stories of two doomed marriages. Magnolia (Kathryn Grayson), the sheltered daughter of...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Jane Wyman · Sterling Hayden · Nancy Olson · Steve Forrest

Plot 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 Pool's...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Gary Cooper · Ingrid Bergman · Flora Robson · Jerry Austin

Plot On the death of her mother, the vivacious Clio Dulaine returns from Paris to her childhood home in New Orleans to seek revenge for the humiliation her mother suffered there...

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Richard Burton · Robert Ryan · Martha Hyer · Jim Backus

Plot At the end of World War I, Zeb Kennedy, a canner, and Thor Storm, a fishing boat captain, set up a fish cannery in Alaska and through the years find...

Direction George Cukor · Cyril Gardner

Cast Ina Claire · Fredric March · Mary Brian · Henrietta Crosman

Plot 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...

Direction Alex Segal · Lawrence Carra · Charles S. Dubin · Frank Telford

Cast Charles Dingle · Nina Foch · James Dunn · Wright King

Plot Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, etc.

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Charles Sale · Dickie Moore · Lois Wilson · Ralf Harolde

Direction Ron Lagomarsino

Cast John Mahoney · Marsha Mason · Stacy Edwards · Charles Durning

Direction Sidney Lumet · Paul Nickell · David Alexander

Cast Claudette Colbert · Reginald Gardiner · Margaret Hamilton · Helen Hayes

Plot TV Series (1954-1955). 1 season. 9 episodes. This live, monthly anthology of Broadway shows was among the first series telecast in color.

Direction Harry A. Pollard · Arch Heath

Cast Laura La Plante · Joseph Schildkraut · Emily Fitzroy · Otis Harlan

Plot The film begins with Magnolia, daughter of Captain Andy Hawks and his domineering wife Parthy, enjoying her childhood aboard her father's show boat. Parthy, irritated over the supposed influence of...

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Rod La Rocque · Louise Dresser · Jobyna Ralston · Cyril Chadwick

Direction William Wyler

Cast Paul Lukas · Constance Cummings · Phillip Reed · Joseph Cawthorne

Plot Ambitious chorus girl Linda Fayne achieves a friendship with successful composer Victor Banki, who writes a song for her and gets her in an Ibsen show where she is a...

Direction James Cruze

Cast Luke Cosgrave · Lois Wilson · Warner Baxter · Ben Hendricks Sr.