HiSTorieS EDWARD BUSCOMBE CODE VIOL ATIONS Both R. Barton Palmer and William Robert Brayâs Hollywoodâs Tennessee and J. E. Smythâs Edna Ferberâs Hollywood review the films made by Hollywood based on the work of an author who had already found fame in another medium. Edna Ferber was a bestselling novelist whose works of historical fiction, featuring strong female characters, brought her to the attention of a Hollywood which had discovered that films based on historical subjects had a strong audience appeal, and that catering to the female audience was a successful strategy. Tennessee Williams was a prestigious Broadway dramatist whose work had achieved not only box-office success but a certain notoriety. Significantly, both authors had penned Pulitzer Prize-winning works: Ferberâs novel So Big in 1925, and Williamsâs play A Streetcar Named Desire, which premiered in 1947, as well as his Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which opened on Broadway in 1955. Hollywood has long been impressed by such awards; not only do they offer proof that the work is a financial success (such awards are rarely given to flops, however artistically distinguished), but they also confer upon the work the cultural prestige which Hollywood covets. For the
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Code Violations
Buscombe, Edward
Follow Film Quarterly
, Volume 65 (2)
University of California Press – Dec 1, 2011
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