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Cannery Row is a 1982 American comedy-drama film directed by David S. Ward in his directorial debut, starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. The movie is adapted from John Steinbeck 's novels Cannery Row (1945) and Sweet Thursday (1954).
David Schad Ward (born October 25, 1945) is an American screenwriter and film director. [1] He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his screenplays for the films The Sting (1973) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), winning for the former.
Entrepreneurs subsequently resurrected Cannery Row as a tourist attraction. [2] Cannery Row was the setting of John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row (1945) and Sweet Thursday (1954). Both were the basis for the 1982 movie Cannery Row, starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger. It is also mentioned in Bob Dylan's song "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands".
Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. [1] It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California , on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row .
Cannery Row is a street in Monterey, California. Cannery Row may also refer to: Cannery Row, a 1945 novel by John Steinbeck Cannery Row, a 1982 film adapted from the novel "Cannery Row", a 2012 Judge John Hodgman podcast episode; Cannery Row, Nashville, an area near downtown Nashville, Tennessee
Pipe Dream is the seventh musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; it premiered on Broadway on November 30, 1955. The work is based on John Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thursday—Steinbeck wrote the novel, a sequel to Cannery Row, in the hope of having it adapted into a musical.
The post-War Mack is more philosophical and has a more literary bent than did the Mack of Cannery Row, indicating the character's evolution as a musical comedy character. Hazel , a simple minded but good hearted-young man who sometimes goes on marine specimen hunting trips with Doc, is the most prominent of Mack's boys who hunker down at the ...
Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (May 14, 1897 – May 11, 1948) was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. Renowned as the inspiration for the character Doc in John Steinbeck's 1945 novel Cannery Row, Rickett's professional reputation is rooted in Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology.