A TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, 1973's The Red Pony, earned Fonda an Emmy nomination.

Rachel and the Stranger ( 1948 ) featured Mitchum in a supporting role as a mountain man competing for the hand of Loretta Young, the indentured servant and wife of William Holden, while he appeared in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novella The Red Pony ( 1949 ) as a trusted cowhand to a ranching family.

The Red Pony is a film score composed for Lewis Milestone's 1949 production which used John Steinbeck's screenplay based on his short stories The Red Pony.

Woman of the Year was followed by an adaptation of John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ) which met with a tepid response.

The work of independent artists, such as American novelist John Steinbeck's novels Of Mice and Men ( 1937 ) and The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), and the music of folk singer Woody Guthrie, was also influenced by the crises of the Dust Bowl and the Depression.

In 2003, the company revived Pinafore, followed by Bea Arthur at The Savoy, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Peter Pan and Pirates.

The album was largely instrumental and inspired by John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath.

A Kewanee boiler is also the dwelling place for the character Suzie DeSoto, played by Debra Winger, in the 1982 film version of John Steinbeck's book Cannery Row.

The actress was due to star in an 1982 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, but was fired by the producers a few days into production ( they claimed that the 40 year old was too old to play the character ).

Steinbeck's novel was itself an allegorical spiritual journey by Tom Joad through America during the Great Depression, and often made Christian allusions to sacrifice and redemption in a world of social injustice.

* Booster Sinclair Munchapper ( voiced by Stephen Furst ): A huge dinosaur-like former janitor from the agricultural planet of Jo-ad ( a play on the name of the Joad family, from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath ).

Crowther responded by detailing the differences between Steinbeck's novella and the film as released, accusing the film's creators of " pre-empting " Steinbeck's " creative authority ".

All of the postwar shorts were directed by Tex Avery, who based them on George and Lennie from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, as well as Archie and Finnegan from Duffy's Tavern.

The term became well-known nationwide by John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath.

A critique of John Steinbeck's The Short Reign of Pippin IV by Peter Lisca describes the story as lacking the burlesque humor of Tortilla Flat, the Rabelaisin humor of St. Katy the Virgin, the folk humor of Grapes of Wrath, the tender humor of Cannery Row, the " terrible " Jonathan Swiftian humor of the Wayward Bus, and ( instead ) consisting of " a sophomoric humor of grotesque improbability and wordplay.

According to Steinbeck's homage, Billings died in the Hotel del Monte in Monterey after which his body was delivered for burial preparation by the local constable to the town's only doctor, who also doubled as an amateur mortician.

It is the third movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1937 novel of the same name, and was preceded by the 1939 film version and the 1981 television movie.

He opened by saying " Among Steinbeck's best novels, the least known is probably In Dubious Battle.

A variation of this rhyme is repeated by a young boy in John Steinbeck's novel Cannery Row in mockery of a Chinese man.

This instance introduced one of Steinbeck's many realizations about American society: the fact that it is driven by fear.

Their refugee status was recorded in folk songs ( including many by Woody Guthrie ), as well as John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, and the film adaptation starring Henry Fonda.

In John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, the character Ma Joad refers several times to Pretty Boy Floyd as a young man driven to a tragic fate by the Great Depression.

The film's adaptation of two of Steinbeck's novels was also a strategy used by creators of the " book " for the musical Pipe Dream ( 1955 ), by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Barry's Heritage ; Robert Glenn's adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Long Valley ; Tom Rothfield's Chekov in Love ; and in 1984, her highly acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's new plays Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and What Where, directed by Alan Schneider, which later she presented at The 1985 Edinburgh Festival and in London.

O ' Hara quietly faded into an early retirement in the early 1930s but began trying to rebuild his career later in the decade by taking bit parts, most notably as the role of a clerk in the 1940 John Ford directed film adaptation on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

According to Thomas Steinbeck, the older son of John Steinbeck, the inspiration for " On the Road " was Steinbeck's Travels with Charley ( whose title was initially considered as the name of Kuralt's feature ).

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights ( 1976 ) is John Steinbeck's retelling of the Arthurian legend, based on the Winchester Manuscript text of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur.

Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body comes immediately to mind in this connection, as does John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath and Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

The road popularized through John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Bobby Troup's "( Get Your Kicks On ) Route 66 " would be marketed not as transportation infrastructure but as a tourism destination in its own right.

Rural flight from the Great Plains has been depicted in literature, such as John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), in which a family from the Great Plains migrates to California during the Dust Bowl period of the 1930s.

** John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.

Bradbury has credited Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as influences on the structure of the book.

Ellington and Strayhorn, always looking for new musical territory, produced suites for John Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thursday, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt.

In 1955, he directed John Steinbeck's East of Eden, which introduced James Dean to movie audiences, making him an overnight star.

After the success of On the Waterfront he went on to direct the screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, East of Eden in 1955.

He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.

Newman was scheduled to make his professional stage directing debut with the Westport Country Playhouse's 2008 production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, but he stepped down on May 23, 2008, citing health issues.

The staff at Variety magazine also reviewed the film favorably, writing, " Under skillful directorial guidance of Lewis Milestone, the picture retains all of the forceful and poignant drama of John Steinbeck's original play and novel, in presenting the strange palship and eventual tragedy of the two California ranch itinerants.

Ricketts, whose life was an inspiration for the eventual building of the aquarium, is famous as the " Doc " of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.

* Today is the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth.

King City is also mentioned repeatedly in John Steinbeck's novel, East of Eden.

In Steinbeck's book Sweet Thursday, a chapter is dedicated to describing a ( probably fictional ) rivalry that arose among the town's residents over the game of roque.

* In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family stops in Needles when they enter California on Route 66.

A town named Weed is also mentioned in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men ( first published 1937 ) as being the town that George Milton and Lennie Small are fleeing from at the beginning of the book.