Erskine Caldwell On Stage & Screen
Stage
Tobacco Road
The Jack Kirkland dramatization opened on December 4, 1933. Still one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history, it ran for 3,182 consecutive perfomances over a period of seven-and-a-half years.
Screen
Claudelle Inglish (1961)
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Diane McBain, Arthur Kennedy, Will Hutchins, Constance Ford, Claude Akins, Chad
Everett, Robert Logan
"My agent told me that the movie of my novel Claudelle Inglish was so poor
that I shouldn't even bother to see it. So I didn't." - - interview with Elizabeth Pell Broadwell and Ronald Wesley Hoag in Conversations with Erskine Caldwell (1988)
God's Little Acre (1958)
Director: Anthony Mann
Screenplay: Philip Yordan
Music: Elmer Bernstein
Cast: Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Fay Spain, Michael
Landon.
Tobacco Road (1941)
Director: John Ford
Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson
Cast: Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Elizabeth
Patterson, Dana Andrews, Slim Summerville, Ward Bond, Grant Mitchell.
Video
God's Little Acre
Audio Books
God's Little Acre
1997 recording narrated by Burt Reynolds
Tobacco Road
Audio Cassettes
Erskine Caldwell Reading Handsome Brown and the Aggravating Goats (1987)
Erskine Caldwell, Interview(1987)
An Informal Hour With Erskine Caldwell (1960)
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