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Sadie Thompson refers to the main character from "Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham (1921). Several adaptations of that story exist with that title: Miss Sadie Thompson, a 1953 film starring Rita Hayworth as Sadie Thompson. Sadie Thompson (film), a 1928 silent film starring Gloria Swanson as Sadie Thompson.
Sada Carolyn Thompson (September 27, 1927 – May 4, 2011) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was known to television audiences as Kate Lawrence in Family (1976–1980), for which she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1978.
Miss Sadie Thompson: Directed by Curtis Bernhardt. With Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Russell Collins. A self-righteous missionary man seeks to save the soul of a former prostitute.
Actress. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Renowned and highly respected actress Sada Thompson has earned critical acclaim both on stage and TV for her noble, strong-minded matrons, but her more challenging and compelling work has come when her characters have displayed darker, more neurotic tones.
"Say nothing and become a legend." Eagels managed to hold her career together through several more Broadway shows. Her breakthrough role came in 1922 as the good-natured and tough prostitute Sadie Thompson in Rain, a dark, bitter play by John Colton, based on a story by Somerset Maugham.
SADIE THOMPSON proved to be a landmark of the silent era. Perhaps its greatest achievement was the film's uncompromising translation of Somerset Maugham's controversial story of a San Francisco prostitute and a South Pacific reformer.
Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A South Seas prostitute runs afoul of a fire-and-brimstone preacher. Cast & Crew. Read More. Raoul Walsh. Director. Gloria Swanson. Sadie Thompson. Lionel Barrymore. Alfred Atkinson. Raoul Walsh. Sgt. Tim O'Hara. Blanche Frederici.
