Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman
During the Depression, the Footlights Club in New York City provided an affordable respite and community for the bevy of struggling stage actresses who reside there. They are an amusing and varied lot, with rich characters and lots of laughs. The main story concerns Terry Randall, a headstrong and witty girl from the Midwest who is determined to become a leading actress on Broadway. While pursuing her career, she becomes involved with two completely different beaux: the left-wing arrogant playwright Keith Burgess, who eventually goes Hollywood as a screenwriter, and David Kingsley, a well-groomed elegant film producer who decides to return to Broadway. Despite the vicissitudes of the theatre trade, Terry sticks to her guns and wins both the leading role in a Broadway play and the affections and respect of the man she loves.
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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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