The play Thunder Rock would later win the Peabody Award, a play that Frances Farmer played in as Melanie.
Thunder Rock is a 1939 play by Robert Ardrey. In 1947 CBS broadcast a radio production; it was awarded a Peabody Award. Kazan engaged Harold Clurman to direct members of the theater collective The Group Theater, including Lee J. Cobb, Morris Carnovsky, and Frances Farmer. Charleston, Streeter, Nonny, Inspector Flanning, Captain Joshua, Briggs, Dr. Stephan Kurtz, Melanie, Anne Marie, Miss Kirby, Chang In November that year, she returned to Broadway, portraying Melanie in Thunder Rock, also directed by Kazan, and produced by the Group Theater. 
