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Jack Kirkland

 
Works: Works by Jack Kirkland
(1902-1969)

1933Tobacco Road. The adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's 1932 novel about a shiftless sharecropper family is assailed by the critics as "repulsive," "ridiculously inept," and "an ugly wallowing sort of drama." It is, however, a box office phenomenon, running for a record 3,182 performances over eight years. Kirkland's only other Broadway success was I Must Love Someone (1939), an account of the Florodora girls.

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Works. The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more