Artwork

Content provided by Amy Helmes & Kim Askew, Amy Helmes, and Kim Askew. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Amy Helmes & Kim Askew, Amy Helmes, and Kim Askew or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!

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

44:33
 
Share
 

Manage episode 395667738 series 2805882
Content provided by Amy Helmes & Kim Askew, Amy Helmes, and Kim Askew. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Amy Helmes & Kim Askew, Amy Helmes, and Kim Askew or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

Send us a Text Message.

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

Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation by Caroline Frick

Texas Archive of the Moving Image

L.A. Story (1991 film)

Showboat by Edna Ferber

Cimarron by Edna Ferber

Algonquin Round Table

Anti-Semitism

Yiddish

Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber

Dawn O’Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber

Alan Hale

Skipper on Gilligan's Island

My Antonia by Willa Cather

pre-code Hollywood

MPAA rating system

Barbara Stanwyck

So Big (1932 film)

Baby Face (1933 film)

Cabbage Patch Kid

Dorothy Canfield Fisher and The Home-Maker on Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 9

Warner Bros.

Cimarron (1931 film)

Academy Award

Bette Davis

Support the Show.

For episodes and show notes, visit:

LostLadiesofLit.com
Discuss episodes on our
Facebook Forum.

Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit.

Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew.

Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com

Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

  continue reading

200 episodes

Artwork
iconShare
 
Manage episode 395667738 series 2805882
Content provided by Amy Helmes & Kim Askew, Amy Helmes, and Kim Askew. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Amy Helmes & Kim Askew, Amy Helmes, and Kim Askew or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

Send us a Text Message.

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

Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation by Caroline Frick

Texas Archive of the Moving Image

L.A. Story (1991 film)

Showboat by Edna Ferber

Cimarron by Edna Ferber

Algonquin Round Table

Anti-Semitism

Yiddish

Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber

Dawn O’Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber

Alan Hale

Skipper on Gilligan's Island

My Antonia by Willa Cather

pre-code Hollywood

MPAA rating system

Barbara Stanwyck

So Big (1932 film)

Baby Face (1933 film)

Cabbage Patch Kid

Dorothy Canfield Fisher and The Home-Maker on Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 9

Warner Bros.

Cimarron (1931 film)

Academy Award

Bette Davis

Support the Show.

For episodes and show notes, visit:

LostLadiesofLit.com
Discuss episodes on our
Facebook Forum.

Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit.

Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew.

Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com

Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

  continue reading

200 episodes

All episodes

×
 
Loading …

Welcome to Player FM!

Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.

 

Quick Reference Guide