A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
000314
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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300 THE TALKING PICTURE Another spectacular production, still one of the high lights of motion-picture making, was M-G-M's adaptation of Pearl Buck's novel of Chinese life, The Good Earth. Irving Thalberg, the producing head of M-G-M, sent a cameraman to China to make background and atmosphere shots. Sidney Franklin directed the picture, and Paul Muni as Wang, and Luise Rainer as O-Lan, gave superb performances. Altogether, The Good Earth was three years in the making (the actual production took eleven months). Thalberg never saw the completed film, for he died before it was finished. The picture remains a monument to his taste and imagination. This scene shows Wang and O-Lan in the wheat field, just before the coming of the locusts.