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“Edna Ferber's epic of American Womanhood”
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
EN

Julie Hempel
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel