On April 14, John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” celebrates its 80th year. The 1939 novel remains a quintessential piece of American literature still read in homes and classrooms throughout the ...

In a peaceful, prosperous, progressive America of 1956, Grapes of Wrath can be seen without evoking the violence of feeling it did in 1940, except perhaps in the drought-stricken Southwest where the ...

Darryl Hickman, a versatile child actor during the 1940s who appeared in “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Leave Her to Heaven,” died May 22. He was 92. The death of Hickman, who later played a supporting ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. “We’re the people that live,” exclaims Ma Joad at the end of ...

The Grapes of Wrath is an iconic 1940 film that brought together giants of their genres: John Ford, the most acclaimed director of his time, John Steinbeck, who wrote the bestselling novel of the same ...