Miss Sadie Thompson Rain, the stage play which John Colton made from W. Somerset Maugham's story about sex, sin and salvation in the tropics, is back for a third try as a motion picture.

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 great.

Sadie Thompson. Her frilly clothes and her unhinged way of walking make it obvious, as soon as Sadie Thompson reaches the rain-drenched island of Pago Pago, that she is rough and probably ready ...

Program credits make no reference to Rain the play, the picture having been adapted from the 'original story' by W. Somerset Maugham. However, the presentation conveys the idea of Rain by a ...

Actors who played the role of Sadie Thompson: Ethel Merman,June Havoc [Broadway] Add a Show Listing: Email: Sign-up: News on your favorite shows, specials & more! EXPLORE REGIONS. Email: ...