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The Rainmaker is a 1956 American western romance film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his 1954 play The Rainmaker.The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain.
Henry Earl Holliman was born on September 11, 1928, in Delhi, Louisiana. [1] His biological father William A. Frost was a farmer. [2] His mother Mary Smith [3] was living in poverty with several other children [4] and gave him up for adoption at birth, while her other children were sent to orphanages until she could take them all back, which she did. [1]
Holliman in a publicity portrait for The Rainmaker (1956). Earl Holliman (September 11, 1928 – November 25, 2024) was an American film and TV actor who appeared in 97 features between 1952 and 2000, including recurring roles on the television series Hotel de Paree, Wide Country, Police Woman, The Thorn Birds, P.S.
Lime's first film appearance was in The Rainmaker (1956), as Snookie Maguire. In 1957, she was cast in films, in an uncredited part as Sally in Elvis Presley's Loving You and in Michael Landon's I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and with top billing in Dragstrip Riot (1958).
Earl Holliman sits with fellow actors Angie Dickinson, center, and Susan Strasberg at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel in 1983. The three had appeared at a rally protesting abuse of laboratory animals.
20th Century Fox; Hodiak's final film The Opposite Sex: David Miller: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Ann Sheridan: Musical: MGM; remake of The Women: Our Miss Brooks: Al Lewis: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Robert Rockwell: Comedy: Warner Bros.; film version and series finale of TV series: Outside the Law: Jack Arnold: Ray Danton, Leigh Snowden, Grant ...
Lancaster made two films for Wallis to complete his eight-film commitment for that contract: The Rainmaker (1956) with Katharine Hepburn, which earned Lancaster a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor; and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) with Kirk Douglas, which was a huge commercial hit directed by John Sturges.
Film Year Studio Notes VistaVision Visits Norway: 1954: Paramount: Short film White Christmas: 1954: Paramount: First VistaVision release [1]3 Ring Circus: 1954