The Joad family enters California in their beat-up Hudson sedan. Image for original trailer via Wikimedia Commons I watched the 1940 award-winning movie “Grapes of Wrath” recently. Nobel Prize-winning ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. “We’re the people that live,” exclaims Ma Joad at the end of ...

Darryl Hickman, a versatile child actor during the 1940s who appeared in “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Leave Her to Heaven,” died May 22. He was 92. The death of Hickman, who later played a supporting ...

AND KMBC NINE’S ALAN SHOPE HAS A PREVIEW TO THE RELATABLE. THEY’RE REAL WITH CHARACTERS THAT JUMP OFF THE PAGE. IT MIGHT BE THE MOST POPULAR BOOK OF OUR CULTURE. THAT’S WHY ONE KANSAS CITY PRODUCTION ...

AMC is developing a new TV franchise called “Great American Stories,” which will kick off with a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” Rolin Jones ...

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck awakened the American conscience to the hapless life of the migrant farm worker. That was exactly 30 years ago. The stoop laborer in the fields today is still a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Set in the town of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ tells of the Joad ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Back then, he was exposed as a communist by the bourgeoisie. The book has ...