* August 15 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 ) other sources give year of her birth as 1885

After living in Chicago, Illinois, and Ottumwa, Iowa, at the age of 12 Ferber and her family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and briefly attended Lawrence University.

She usually highlighted at least one strong secondary character who faced discrimination ethnically or for other reasons ; through this technique, Ferber demonstrated her belief that people are people and that the not-so-pretty persons have the best character.

Ferber died at her home in New York City, of stomach cancer, at the age of 82.

Ferber had approved Jane Murfin's script, which Hawks found wanting, and he persuaded her and Goldwyn to allow him to bring in Jules Furthman to work on a rewrite.

" He concluded, " You won't find Come and Get It a thoroughly Ferber work, but enough of her has been retained and enough good Goldwyn added to make it a genuinely satisfying picture.

To attempt to follow in the footsteps of her role model, novelist Edna Ferber, she eventually joined the Milwaukee Sentinel as its society editor, but moved on to the city beat, where she developed a knack as an interviewer.

In her 1958 novel about Alaska, Ice Palace, author Edna Ferber based the character of Bridie Ballantyne, official greeter of the fictional town of Baranof, on McGown ;, the part of Bridie Ballantyne was played by Carolyn Jones in the 1960 film adaptation of the novel.

The James Adams Floating Theatre is the only showboat that was visited by Edna Ferber while writing her novel Showboat.

Ferber was portrayed by the actress Lili Taylor in the 1994 film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.

Ferber was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of wits who met for lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.

According to Teichmann, Ferber once described Woollcott as " a New Jersey Nero who has mistaken his pinafore for a toga.

The play was written in collaboration with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman, who regularly wrote with others, notably Marc Connelly and Edna Ferber.

Osage is the main town of the movie " Cimarron " ( 1931 ) based upon the novel by Edna Ferber, a story about a newspaper editor who settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century: http :// www. imdb. com / title / tt0021746 /.

His long-in-development show, The Royal Family of Broadway, with a book by Richard Greenberg, was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, which tells the story of a girl from a family of great Broadway actors who contemplates leaving show business and getting married.

Things eventually come to a crunch when Greg is left alone to babysit Little Jack, who Jack has been raising via the Ferber method.

Samuel Goldwyn paid $ 150, 000 for the screen rights to the Edna Ferber novel, who sold it to him confident he understood she had intended it to be " primarily a story of the rape of America.

Wyler never considered Come and Get It a part of his filmography and disowned it whenever he could, although it greatly pleased Ferber, who praised Goldwyn " for the courage, sagacity, and power of decision " he demonstrated by " throwing out the finished Hawks picture and undertaking the gigantic task of making what amounted to a new picture.

Even the musical Show Boat, which is greatly different from the Edna Ferber novel from which it was adapted uses some of Ferber's original dialogue, notably during the miscegenation scene.

Hawks took advantage of the situation and allowed Furthman to change completely the tone of Ferber's original story ; cast slender Walter Brennan as Swan Bostrom, a man Ferber had described as " the strongest man in the North woods ;" and arrange a shooting schedule and budget Goldwyn never would have approved.

* Dinner at Eight ( play ), a 1932 Broadway play written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.

In 2008, The Library of America selected Ferber's article " Miss Ferber Views ' Vultures ' at Trial " for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.

Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 film written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name.

In 1933, he co-wrote Dinner at Eight, which was based on the George S. Kaufman / Edna Ferber play, and became one of the most popular comedies at that time and remains a " classic " comedy.

Productions included The Citadel ( with Geraldine Fitzgerald ), A Christmas Carol ( broadcast once with Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge, and once with Orson Welles himself in the role ), a non-musical version of Show Boat ( with Margaret Sullavan as Magnolia, Orson Welles as Cap ' n Andy, Helen Morgan as Julie, and author Edna Ferber herself as Parthy ), A Farewell to Arms ( with Katharine Hepburn ), Mutiny on the Bounty, Arrowsmith ( with Helen Hayes ), Les Misérables ( with Walter Huston ), Our Town, Ah, Wilderness, Dodsworth, Lost Horizon ( with Ronald Colman ), Dinner at Eight ( with Hedda Hopper and Lucille Ball ), Liliom ( with Orson Welles in the title role and Helen Hayes as Julie ), and Huckleberry Finn ( with Jackie Cooper ).

Plaque located in Manhattan, at 65th Street & Central Park West, in the building in which Edna Ferber lived for 6 years

* Works by Edna Ferber at Internet Archive

Book Revue shows the well-known ( at that time ) 1924 Edna Ferber novel So Big featuring a Durante caricature on the cover.

In June 1934, she played Myrtle in House on Fire at the Queen's Theatre, and on 22 August 1934 appeared as Margaret Hamilton in Gertrude Jenning's play Family Affairs when it premiered at the Ambassadors Theatre ; Helene Ferber in Repayment at the Arts Theatre in January 1936 ; Trixie Drew in Henry Bernard's play Miss Smith at the Duke of York's Theatre in July 1936 ; and back at the Queen's in July 1937 as Ann Harlow in Ann's Lapse.

* 22 September Ferdinand Ferber is killed in taxying accident at Boulogne.

* 1 April – Captain Ferdinand Ferber makes a failed attempt to fly an Archdeacon glider at Berck sur Mer, Picardie.

Productions at the Haymarket in 2000 included Collected Stories ( Donald Marguiles ), starring Helen Mirren, and August Strindberg's Miss Julie, followed in 2001 by The Blue Room by David Hare ; Japes by Simon Gray, directed by Peter Hall ; and The Royal Family ( Edna Ferber ), starring Judi Dench.

The album was produced by Nick Launay at Studio Ferber in Paris in March – April 2004 and Nick Cave used The Bad Seeds line up of Mick Harvey, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, Warren Ellis, and James Johnston.

He mentioned a book by Edna Ferber about a tiny group of rich Texans, and related it to his own experience with a family similar to the one in the book at his Texas Thanksgiving.

The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters ' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called " Screen Door ".

He exposed the bucket-shop racket with the able assistance of two excellent reporters, Nat Ferber and Carl Helm.

* 1885 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 )

Child pornography is not subject to the Miller test, as the Supreme Court decided in New York v. Ferber,.

** Edna Ferber, American writer ( b. 1885 )

* February 8 – Ferdinand Ferber, a French Army captain and aviation pioneer ( d. 1909 )

Edna Ferber ( August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968 ) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.

Ferber was born August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Jacob Charles and Julia ( Neumann ) Ferber.

When composer Jerome Kern proposed turning the very serious Show Boat into a musical, Ferber was shocked, thinking it would be transformed into a typical light entertainment of the 1920s.

It was not until Kern explained that he and Oscar Hammerstein II wanted to create a different type of musical that Ferber granted him the rights.

Ferber and another member of the Round Table, Alexander Woollcott, were long-time enemies, their antipathy lasting until Woollcott's death in 1943, although Howard Teichmann states in his biography of Woollcott that their feud was due to a misunderstanding.

Artist Mark Summers, well known for his scratchboard technique, created this portrait for the stamp referencing a black-and-white photograph of Ferber taken in 1927.

Ferber had no children, never married, and is not known to have engaged in a romance or sexual relationship.

Cimarron is the title of a novel by Edna Ferber, published in 1929 and based on development in Oklahoma after the Land Rush.