Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman
The curtain goes up on the most famous theatrical family on Broadway: the fabulous Cavendish clan, which has defined unforgettable stage acting for over three generations. While matriarch Fanny Cavendish plans a farewell tour, her leading lady daughter, Julie, has to choose between a dinner date and a first rehearsal — and just when matinee idol brother Tony is on the lam for slugging a Hollywood director. In the meantime, Fanny’s granddaughter, Gwen, is thinking the unthinkable — chucking the whole thing to marry a stockbroker. “Marriage isn’t a career—it’s an incident,” sniffs Fanny. But, the show must go on — and so must the Cavendish tradition: when the curtain falls, the torch is passed from one generation of actors to another.
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Edna Ferber (1887-1968) was an American novelist and playwright whose camera-like regional descriptions and vigorous portraiture of ordinary men and women made her one of the most popular authors of the early 20th century. Her first professional writing was done for newspaper ...
George S. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh in 1889. During his early career as a reporter and drama critic , he began to write for the theatre. For 40 years, beginning in 1921 with the production of Dulcy, there was rarely a year without a Kaufman play — usually written in coll ...
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