Tobacco Road (film) box office, and it had grossed up to $1.9 million by 1973. Tobacco Road (film) Tobacco Road is a 1941 film directed by John Ford and starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy Dana Andrews and Ward Bond. It was based on the novel of the same name by Erskine Caldwell, but the plot was rewritten for the film. Studios attempting to acquire the screen rights to the novel date back to 1933. RKO Pictures and Warner Bros. considered buying the rights, the first intending to assign Charles Laughton in the lead role, but were discouraged from doing
Connecticut shade tobacco Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves. In 2017, one of the largest producers of shade grown tobacco, O.J. Thrall, placed over 300 acres of prime tobacco growing land up for sale, which is almost half of the remaining amount of acreage in production for shade grown tobacco. Pockets of the crop remain in production in Connecticut Towns such as Windsor, East Windsor, Suffield and Enfield. The 1958 novel and 1961 motion picture titled "Parrish" featured the shade tobacco industry in and around Hartford in the '40s and '50s. Connecticut shade tobacco Connecticut