Cradle Will Rock: The Movie and the Moment

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Official tie-in to the major motion picture coming from Touchstone Pictures later this year, from the Academy Award-nominated writer-director of Dead Man Walking and Bob Roberts. An extraordinary film, written and directed by Robbins, supported by an amazing cast, about the events in 1936, surrounding the final days of the Federal Theatre Project, when Orson Welles and John Houseman staged a renegade production of Marc Blitzstein's proletariat musical The Cradle Will Rock, which became one of America's greatest moments in the history of American theater. The cast list:
Marc Blitzstein: Hank Azaria
Hallie Flanagan: Cherry Jones
Gray Mathers:Phillip Baker Hall
Countess La Grange: Vanessa Redgrave
Margherita Sarfatti: Susan Sarandon
Aldo Silvano: John Turturro
Olive Stanton: Emily Watson
Orson Welles: Angus MacFadyen
John Houseman: Cary Elwes
Nelson Rockefeller: John Cusack
Tommy Crickshaw: Bill Murray
Hazel Huffman: Joan Cusack
William Randolph Hearst: John Carpenter
John Adair: Jamey Sheridan
Diego Rivera: Ruben Blades
Will Geer: Daniel Jenkins This Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook will include the story of the making of the film, historical sidebars and photos, excerpts from books and documents, movie stills, and notes by Robbins and others associated with the film.


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Set in New York City and Washington D.C. in 1937, this fast-paced, rollicking romp starring Hank Azaria, Ruben Blades, Vanessa Redgrave, Emily Watson, Bill Murray, Susan Sarandon, John and Joan Cusack, John Turturro, and others, dramatizes the events surrounding the final, emotionally-wrought days of the Federal Theater Project.

This unique film/history book includes a lengthy essay and notes from Robbins along with his complete shooting script, 115 behind-the-scenes movie stills, comments from cast and crew members, complete production credits, 34 archival photos, and 30 illuminating historical articles, written exclusively for this book mainly by social historian Eric Darton (Divided We Stand).


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