| 1933 | Tobacco 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. |




