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Cross Creek is a 1983 American biographical drama romance film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based in part on Rawlings's 1942 memoir Cross Creek.
Cross Creek. Fans of American author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ( The Yearling , Cross Creek) flock to this tiny town near Gainesville in north central Florida. Visitors to her Cross Creek homestead can walk back in time and experience Florida farm life as it existed during the 1930s.
Oct 27, 1983 · With Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill. In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
Feb 29, 2024 · Cross Creek is home to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic Park, a state park devoted entirely to the life, times, and work of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The town of Cross Creek is southeast of Gainesville in Alachua County on a narrow strip of land separating Orange and Lochloosa Lakes.
After Rawlings had written several successful novels set in Florida, she wrote an autobiography, Cross Creek, telling the real story of her life and neighbors there. Now here is the movie version, arriving in Chicago after a shameful delay.
Visitors to this old Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm life when Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of Cross Creek. This authentic Florida cracker homestead inspired the Pulitzer Prize winning author.
In the late 1920s, columnist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) moves to Cross Creek, Fla., to dedicate herself to writing a serious novel.
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