The Grapes of Wrath News

The truck is loaded, and Ma Joad is still in the house, going through a box of trinkets.

Turner Classic Movies airs classic films based on the work of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist John Steinbeck throughout the evening of Tuesday, November 3. The night begins with the big three, "East of Eden," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "Of Mice and Men," which combined for 15 total Oscar nominations, three of which were winners.

It's not just that John Steinbeck 's 1939 novel is a Pulitzer Prize -winning masterpiece.

A challenging play for challenging times, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' epically and expertly staged by the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, shoves our current recession into sobering perspective.

Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain't no good and they die out, but we keep on coming.

Sunday morning I found myself in the family room pedaling furiously on my spinning cycle while watching John Steinbeck's classic film adapted novel, The Grapes of Wrath , with a young Henry Fonda and slew of other Hollywood stars cutting their teeth to make a name for themselves.

In the mid-1950s, a photographer named Robert Frank, lately emigrated from Switzerland, drove around the United States to see and to join his new country.

When the Academy Awards for 1940 were announced, at LA's Biltmore Hotel on February 27 1941, it was a bittersweet night for Alfred Hitchcock.

The financial crisis brings a new urgency to a revival of depression era classic The Grapes Of Wrath, its director and cast tell Susan Mansfield RUTHLESS bankers, ecological blunders, unemployment, repossessions.

A scene from John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath. Neil Cooper Published on 5 Oct 2009 A billboard on Route 66 declares: "There is no way like the American way, The most prosperous country in the world." Such optimistic swagger suggests the bullish boom years of the early 1960s portrayed in TV drama Mad Men rather than the reality of ...

JOHN Steinbeck's American novel about the Great Depression - The Grapes of Wrath - is a rare gem.

Down but never out. Consider it the theme of "Triumph Over Tragedy," an ambitious art program spanning six months and 21 parishes.

JOHN Steinbeck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of 1939, The Grapes of Wrath, features the extended Joad family, just one among hundreds of Oklahoma dust bowl dwellers driven from their land by poverty and drought.

We catch up with Belfast actor Damian O'Hare, currently touring the UK in The Grapes of Wrath... When English Touring Theatre's production of The Grapes of Wrath opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre in July, the complex logistics involved a sizeable cast, an epic narrative and truckloads of scenes meant that the technical rehearsal was a tough ...

Route 66 may be the most famous strip of asphalt in the United States. It's not the country's only famous road, of course.

Hard times. The Great Recession we're all living through got Ralph Lauren thinking about American resiliency.

A Greek film festival is tapping into the global economic zeitgeist next month with a retrospective of films from and about the Great Depression.

Though the front half of the famous car is original, it now has a long, pointed race car tail, with a fin.

Oscar-award winning director John Ford presents Oscar-award winning actor Henry Fonda in "My Darling Clementine" screening for free Thursday night at 7:30 in the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony.

The cleverly titled new TV movie "Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith" stars Cybill Shepherd as a woman who goes to the famous Northampton women's school after experiencing a divorce.