Miss Sadie Thompson
| Miss Sadie Thompson | |
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| Directed by | Curtis Bernhardt |
| Produced by | Jerry Wald |
| Written by | Harry Kleiner |
| Based on | "Miss Thompson" 1921 short story by W. Somerset Maugham |
| Starring |
Rita Hayworth José Ferrer Aldo Ray Russell Collins Diosa Costello Peggy Converse Charles Bronson |
| Music by | Morris Stoloff |
| Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
| Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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December 23, 1953 |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.9 million (US) |
Miss Sadie Thompson is a 1953 American musical 3D film starring Rita Hayworth, Aldo Ray and José Ferrer, and was released by Columbia Pictures. The film is based on the W. Somerset Maugham short story "Miss Thompson" (later retitled "Rain"). Other film versions include Sadie Thompson (1928) starring Gloria Swanson, Rain (1932) starring Joan Crawford, and Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A., a 1946 race film.
A bar girl from Hawaii, a religious zealot and a love-struck Marine struggle with sin and salvation just after World War II while Sadie Thompson kicks out several songs, including the Oscar-nominated "Blue Pacific Blues".
This was Rita Hayworth's third film after her marriage to Prince Aly Khan had kept her off screen for four years. The public eagerly welcomed her return in two previous films Affair in Trinidad and Salome so Columbia gave Miss Sadie Thompson an "A" film budget. 3-D films had become a fad, with some 3-D films drawing huge crowds in major cities, so it was used as well. Exteriors were filmed on the island of Kauai, Hawaii and interiors on the Columbia lot.
The original story of sin and redemption was sanitized to appease the Production Code and several musical numbers were inserted to spice up the tepid reworked plot. As with her previous films, Hayworth's singing was dubbed, this time by Jo Ann Greer. By the time of the premiere on December 23, 1953, interest in 3-D had died down considerably. After a two-week run, all 3-D prints were pulled. The film was given a national release "flat", in other words, in regular prints, minus the 3-D.
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