John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. It is one of the great American novels, a powerful historical documentation and an angry condemnation of the Great Depression in the 1930’s. It be ...
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42nd STREET, the 1933 movie, singing and dancing its way to success, is the archetype for all backstage Broadway musical films. It is the ultimate show biz “the show must go” on cliché. The film’s pre ...
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Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, which premiered in 1934, was the perfect light entertainment for audiences who had been through the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression. And it’s the perfect light ...
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (March 6, 2020) Cert 12A, 120 mins. When Chloe Ardelia Wofford was two during the Great Depression, the family’s landlord set fire to their house because her father coul ...
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