Bradford Ropes

Bradford Ropes (January 1, 1905 – November 21, 1966) was an American 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] The same year, his next novel, Stage Mother, was also adapted to film,^[2] Ropes’s novels were inspired by his own experiences as a performer, and focused on the lives of gay men in show business.^[3] He also wrote many Western stories, screenplays for Roy Rogers and Rex Allen, and contributed to films starring Abbott and Costello as well as Laurel and Hardy.

Ropes wrote in 1932 that America was still waiting for the "Uncle Tom's Cabin of the chorus girl."^[4]

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