The Good Earth

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American film drama film

The Good Earth is a 1937 American film adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about Chinese farmers struggling with poverty, tradition, and social change.

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Label Occurrences
The Good Earth canonical 7
The Good Earth (1937) 1
The Good Earth (novel) 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American film ⓘ
drama film ⓘ
academyAwards nominated for Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ
nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
won Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ
authorOfOriginalWork Pearl S. Buck ⓘ
awardWon Academy Award for Best Actress ⓘ
awardWonBy Luise Rainer ⓘ
basedOn The Good Earth self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: The Good Earth (novel)
cinematographer Karl Freund ⓘ
coDirector Gustav Machatý ⓘ
Victor Fleming ⓘ
colorProcess black-and-white ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
director Sidney Franklin ⓘ
distributedBy Loew's Inc. ⓘ
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ
filmEditor Basil Wrangell ⓘ
genre drama ⓘ
mainCharacter O-Lan ⓘ
Wang Lung ⓘ
musicBy Herbert Stothart ⓘ
notableFor adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
producer Albert Lewin ⓘ
Irving Thalberg ⓘ
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ
publicationYear 1937 ⓘ
releaseDateInUnitedStates January 29, 1937 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 138 ⓘ
screenwriter Claudine West ⓘ
Talbot Jennings ⓘ
Tess Slesinger ⓘ
setDuring early 20th century China ⓘ
setting China ⓘ
starredActor Charley Grapewin ⓘ
Jessie Ralph ⓘ
Keye Luke ⓘ
Luise Rainer ⓘ
Paul Muni ⓘ
Roland Lui ⓘ
Soo Yong ⓘ
Tilly Losch ⓘ
Walter Connolly ⓘ
subjectMatter Chinese farmers ⓘ
poverty ⓘ
social change ⓘ
tradition ⓘ

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Harold Rosson → notableWork → The Good Earth ⓘ
Irving Thalberg → notableWork → The Good Earth ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Good Earth (1937)
Mae Marsh → hasFilmAppearance → The Good Earth ⓘ
James Basevi → notableWork → The Good Earth ⓘ
James Basevi → workedOn → The Good Earth ⓘ
The Good Earth → basedOn → The Good Earth self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Good Earth (novel)
Sidney Franklin → notableWork → The Good Earth ⓘ
Sidney Franklin → directed → The Good Earth ⓘ
Sidney Franklin → produced → The Good Earth ⓘ