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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 late Jeanne Eagels played Sadie Thompson, the raffish trollop, up to the hilt, and after the play had run two years on Broadway she was established as one of the U. S. theatre’s legendary...
In 1922, she had her first starring role, in the play Rain by John Colton and Clemence Randolph, based on a short story by Somerset Maugham. In this, her favorite role, [citation needed] Eagels played Sadie Thompson, a free-wheeling and promiscuous spirit who confronts a fire-and-brimstone preacher on a South Pacific island.
Originating as a 1922 stage play starring Broadway's legendary Jeanne Eagles, it first appeared on screen during the silent era as SADIE THOMPSON (United Artists, 1928), starring Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore.
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The truth is finally told about Jeanne Eagels, legendary Broadway star as Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham’s 'Rain', celebrated silent movie actress, and A...
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Sep 20, 2022 · Its New York stage run as Sadie Thompson made a star of the legendary Jeanne Eagels. Somerset Maugham’s racy story had already been adapted by Gloria Swanson and Raoul Walsh as the silent film Sadie Thompson. A talkie version could finally make use of the play’s dialogue.
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The original play, performed by Tallulah Bankhead in London and the legendary Jeanne Eagels on Broadway, created such a scandal that when Gloria Swanson announced plans to film it, she had to change the title and assure Will Hays, enforcer of the industry's Production Code, that not one line of the original would turn up in the titles.
