The Good Earth (1937) | |
| Director(s) | Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming (uncredited), Gustav Machat? (uncredited), Sam Wood (uncredited) |
| Producer(s) | Albert Lewin (associate), Irving Thalberg (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Book-Based, Romance (Drama) |
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The Good Earth (1937) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Sidney Franklin and Gustav Machat? and produced by Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin.
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Excellent, painstaking adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's 1931 tome about a Chinese peasant family whose rise to wealth nearly destroys them, save for the saintly O'Lan. The special effects and the cinematography are wonderful, and Rainer won the second of her consecutive Oscars for Best Actress. This was Thalberg's last production and is dedicated to his memory.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
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Academy Awards 1937 --- Ceremony Number 10 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actress | Luise Rainer | Won |
| Best Cinematography | Karl Freund | Won |
| Best Director | Sidney Franklin | Nominated |
| Best Film Editing | Basil Wrangell | Nominated |
| Best Picture | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Nominated |
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The Good Earth (1937, Sidney Franklin)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 1, 2019 From The Stop ButtonFor maybe the first ninety minutes of The Good Earth, it seems like the most interesting thing to talk about is going to be how the filmmakers were able to make the lead characters in the film appear sympathetic while they were being, frankly, un-American. It makes sense, since the main characters a... Read full article
The Good Earth (1937, Sidney Franklin)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Apr 1, 2019 From The Stop ButtonFor maybe the first ninety minutes of The Good Earth, it seems like the most interesting thing to talk about is going to be how the filmmakers were able to make the lead characters in the film appear sympathetic while they were being, frankly, un-American. It makes sense, since the main characters a... Read full article
The Good Earth (1937, Sidney Franklin)
on Apr 1, 2019 From The Stop ButtonFor maybe the first ninety minutes of The Good Earth, it seems like the most interesting thing to talk about is going to be how the filmmakers were able to make the lead characters in the film appear sympathetic while they were being, frankly, un-American. It makes sense, since the main characters a... Read full article
The Good Earth (1937, Sidney Franklin)
on Apr 1, 2019 From The Stop ButtonFor maybe the first ninety minutes of The Good Earth, it seems like the most interesting thing to talk about is going to be how the filmmakers were able to make the lead characters in the film appear sympathetic while they were being, frankly, un-American. It makes sense, since the main characters a... Read full article
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By Beatrice on Sep 23, 2013 From Flickers in TimeThe Good Earth Directed by Sidney Franklin Written by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West based upon the novel by Pearl S. Buck 1937/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Repeat viewing Unidentified laborer: I don’t know but it has something to do with food. Something about MGM’s worthy... Read full article
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According to Peter Hay's 1991 book "When the Lion Roars", when MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer learned of production chief Irving Thalberg's desire to film Pearl S. Buck's novel about Chinese peasants, he told him, "The public won't buy pictures about American farmers, and you want to give them Chinese farmers?" Opposed by Mayer, Thalberg had to appeal to Nicholas Schenck, the chief executive of MGM parent Loew's Theaters Inc. and President of MGM, to make the film. Permission was given, but Thalberg never lived to see the film completed. This is the only film that bears a Thalberg producer credit.
The play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, based on Pearl S. Buck's novel, opened in New York on 18 October 1933 at the Guild Theater with Claude Rains and Alla Nazimova in the lead roles and ran for 56 performances.
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