Bradford Ropes

About

Bradford Ropes was a 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. His next novel, Stage Mother in 1933 was also adapted to film, He also wrote many Western stories, screenplays for Roy Rogers and Rex Allen, and contributed to films starring Abbott & Costello and Laurel & Hardy.