The Green Pastures (1936) | |
| Director(s) | Marc Connelly, William Keighley |
| Producer(s) | Henry Blanke (supervising), Jack L. Warner (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Bible |
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The Green Pastures (1936) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by William Keighley and Marc Connelly and produced by Henry Blanke and Jack L. Warner.
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By Crystal J. Anderson on Dec 4, 2013 From Classic Film ReviewDirector:?William Keighley & Marc Connelly Writer:?Roark Bradford (novel: Ol’ Man Adam and His Chillun’);?Mark Connelly (play and screenplay) Genre: Drama Music: Hall Johnson;?Erich Wolfgang Korngold Main Cast: Rex Ingram (De Lawd/Adam/Hezdrel) Oscar Polk (Gabriel) Eddie ‘Roche... Read full article
The Green Pastures (1936) (1)
By Beatrice on Aug 8, 2013 From Flickers in TimeThe Green Pastures Directed by Marc Connelly and William Keighley Written by Marc Connelly based on a play by Marc Connelly and a novel by Roark Bradford (“Ol’ Man Adam and His Chillun” ) 1936/USA Warner Bros. First viewing This white imagining of what African-Americans imagine the... Read full article
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Banned in many countries.
The original Broadway stage production won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened February 26, 1930, at the Mansfield Theatre in New York, and ran for 640 performances. Juanita Hall, who later played "Bloody Mary" in the stage and film versions of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's classic South Pacific, appeared in the original stage production.
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