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The story has been the basis of a number of adaptations. Rain (1922), a play by John Colton and Clemence Randolph. It ran for 608 performances, from 7 November 1922 to 31 May 1924, in New York at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, starring Jeanne Eagels. [9] Sadie Thompson (1928), a silent film starring Gloria Swanson. Rain (1932), a film starring ...
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.
Due to the subject matter, the making of the film was extremely controversial. However, it was a financial and critical success for Swanson. The film was based on the 1921 short story "Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham and the 1922 play, based on the story, by John Colton and Clemence Randolph, starring Jeanne Eagels.
Sometimes being a dog mom gets you into a strange situation. Just ask Glenn Close.. On the Jan. 13 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Close, 77, reminisced about her 1987 film Fatal Attraction ...
The story was first published in issue 3 of the magazine Midnight Graffiti in spring 1989. In 1993, it was republished in King's short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. [1] In 2006, a version of the story illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne was published as part of the Cemetery Dance Publications book The Secretary of Dreams ...
On January 1, UK explorer Alice Morrison, 61, known as the “Indiana Jones for girls,” set off on a 2,500-kilometer journey, to cross the length of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from north to ...
Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of five early short stories by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, originally published in various sources between 1959 and 1964. The book is also notable for its introduction, written by Pynchon.
Three girls movie is a genre of film which typical centers around the activities, both romantic and professional, of three (sometimes four) girls, usually in an urban setting. According to Laura Jacobs in Vanity Fair, "Requirements were minimal: a big city, three pretty faces, some wolves." [1] It is also known as three girls in the city movies ...