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1,106 ratings157 reviews. Originally published in the short story collection "Trembling of a Leaf" copyright 1921 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Sadie Thompson knows what men like about her and makes no secret of liking men. She is thrown by chance on the same lush South Sea isle as an iron-willed missionary who sees in her only the ...
Dr Macphail is the mouthpiece the author uses to show his disapproval of Davidson’s intolerant attitudes; rebuking him for being harsh in his attitude to Sadie Thompson. Meanwhile, as events play themselves out, we are always aware of the uncomfortable, sultry, humid weather and the never ending rain of the title.
Rain. (1932 film) Rain is a 1932 pre-Code drama film that stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson. Directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the South Seas, the production was filmed in part at Santa Catalina Island and what is now Crystal Cove State Park in California. The film also features Walter Huston in the role of a conflicted ...
La frágil voluntad. Raoul Walsh, C. Gardner Sullivan. Historia: William Somerset Maugham. A la isla Pago-Pago en el Pacífico, llegan simultáneamente Alfred Davidson (Lionel Barrymore) y su esposa (Blanche Friderici), dos evangelizadores de muy estrecha moral, y Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson), una mujer alegre y sociable que huye de su ...
Miss Sadie Thompson is a 1953 3-D American musical romantic drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, and Aldo Ray. The film was released by Columbia Pictures. The film is based on W. Somerset Maugham 's 1921 short story "Miss Thompson" (later retitled "Rain"). Other film versions include Sadie Thompson ...
Other articles where Sadie Thompson is discussed: Raoul Walsh: Early work: ) Nearly as famous was Sadie Thompson (1928), for which Walsh wrote the screenplay based on W. Somerset Maugham’s story “Rain” and in which he also starred as the rowdy Sgt. Tim O’Hara, opposite Gloria Swanson in the title role. Walsh was also going to direct and act in In…
Sadie Thompson was largely forgotten, and yet the pioneering film historian George C. Pratt, then Associate Curator of George Eastman House, included a review of the film in his teaching packet for a silent-film course at the University of Rochester—a packet that later became Spellbound in Darkness (1966), a seminal collection of texts on the era.
