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"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as "Miss Thompson" in the April 1921 issue of the American literary magazine The Smart Set, [1] and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf.
Pages in category "Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. ... Rain (1932 film) The Razor's Edge ...
The plot of the film is based on the 1922 play Rain by John Colton and Clemence Randolph, which in turn was based on the 1921 short story "Miss Thompson" (later retitled "Rain") by W. Somerset Maugham. Actress Jeanne Eagels had played the role on stage.
The film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 short story "Miss Thompson" (later retitled "Rain"). Other film versions include Sadie Thompson (1928) starring Gloria Swanson , Rain (1932) starring Joan Crawford , and Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946).
The playwright, novelist and short-story writer W. Somerset Maugham, was a prolific author from the late 19th century until the 1960s. Most of his earliest successes were for the theatre, but he gave up writing plays after 1932.
The biggest theatrical success of Maugham's career was an adaptation by others [n 14] of his short story "Rain", which opened on Broadway in 1921 and ran for 648 performances. [89] The majority of his original plays were comedies, but of his serious dramas East of Suez (1922), The Letter (1927) and The Sacred Flame (1929) ran for more than 200 ...
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. is an unauthorized adaptation of the 1921 W. Somerset Maugham short story "Rain", which had been adapted as the John Colton-Clemence Randolph play Rain. [6] The property had been filmed twice before this version: as the 1928 Sadie Thompson starring Gloria Swanson and the 1932 Rain starring Joan Crawford.
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.