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Oct 24, 2011 · Rain; a play in three acts, founded on W. Somerset Maugham's story, "Miss Thompson", by John Colton and Clemence Randolph : Colton, John, b. 1889 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Rain: Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr.. A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.
Apr 11, 2016 · Only 3 years after the publication of "Rain," Maugham was to get into trouble with his unfortunate choice of names for his protagonists in The Painted Veil. But there is more to the story "Rain." Maugham wrote it up from his notes, then one night he chanced to meet John Colton, a young American playwright, at the Hollywood Hotel, who was ...
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.
“Rain,” previewed for a professional audience, left them gasping for breath at the frankness of its adherence to Colton’s ironical concept of Davidson, the missionary.
Based on the play Rain by John Colton and Clemence Randolph (New York, 7 Nov 1922) as adapted from the short story "Miss Thompson" by W. Somerset Maugham in The Smart Set (Apr 1921).
By John Colton and Clemence Randolph. Based on the story by Somerset Maugham. This is the foreboding tale about a missionary who encounters a raucous prostitute on a quarantined Pacific isle.
