Bradford Ropes (January 1, 1905 – November 21, 1966) was a novelist and screenwriter whose work includes the novel 42nd Street that was adapted into the 1933 film of the same name, which then became a Tony Award-winning stage musical.[1] His next novel, Stage Mother in 1933 was also adapted to film,[2] He also wrote many Western stories, screenplays for Roy Rogers and Rex Allen, and contributed to films starring Abbott & Costello and Laurel & Hardy.
Ropes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died in the Wollaston section of Quincy, Massachusetts.
Ropes wrote in 1932 that America was still waiting for the "Uncle Tom's Cabin of the chorus girl."[3]
- ^ James, Rian; Seymour, James (May 18, 1980). 42nd Street. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 12 – via Internet Archive.
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- ^ Barrios, Richard (1995). A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. Oxford University Press. p. 396. ISBN 9780195088113. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
- ^ Graham, T. Austin (January 21, 2013). The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture. OUP USA. ISBN 978-0-19-986211-5 – via Google Books.