Edna Ferber's romance novel Show Boat (1926) became a 1951 musical blockbuster starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel. Other Ferber novels that became cinematic classics include Giant (1952) starring Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor, and So Big (1924) starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent and Bette Davis.
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