Bradford Ropes (January 1, 1905 – November 21, 1966) was a prolific novelist and screenwriter whose work includes the novel ''42nd Street'' that was adapted for
the 1933 film of the same name and then a
Tony Award
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winning musical, also
of the same name. His next novel, ''
Stage Mother'' in 1933 was also adapted to film. He also wrote many
Western stories as well as screenplays for
Abbott and Costello
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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
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References
1905 births
1966 deaths
Writers from Boston
20th-century American novelists
American Western (genre) novelists
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