The most significant adaptation of a Caldwell work is Jack Kirkland's dramatization of Tobacco Road in 1933.
Although more comic than Caldwell liked, the play has become one of the best known in modern theater and is still performed. The dramatic adaptations of Journeyman in 1938 and Georgia Boy in 1945 were both failures. Several of Caldwell's novels have been made into films. In 1941, Tobacco Road, based more on the play than the novel, was directed by John Ford. Caldwell.....
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