Theodore Dreiser Jennie Gerhardt

1. Theodore Dreiser Jennie Gerhardt

THEODORE DREISER
JENNIE GERHARDT

2. Theodore Dreiser AMERICAN AUTHOR

BORN
August 27, 1871
Terre Haute, Indiana
DIED
December 28, 1945 (aged 74)
Los Angeles, California

3.

Sister Carrie
(1900)
Jennie Gerhardt
(1911)

4.

- Naturalism
- Life creates tragedies
- Autobiographical
features
- 2 world of the novel
- Money – Love
- Romeo and Juliet
- A true document of
the era

5. Marion Gering for Paramount Pictures

6.

Sylvia Sidney
as Jennie
Gerhardt
Donald Cook
as Lester Kane