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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There was a lesser-known film adaptation from Hong Kong, simply titled ''Da di'' ("Earth"), which is the book's Chinese title, and it was released in 1954, predating ''Film/SonsOfTheGoodEarth'' by nine years. It's not known how faithful it is to the novel since the movie cannot be found online.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There was a lesser-known film adaptation from Hong Kong, Kong simply titled ''Da di'' ("Earth"), which is the book's Chinese title, and it was released in 1954, predating ''Film/SonsOfTheGoodEarth'' by nine years. It's not known how faithful it is to the novel since the movie cannot be found online.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: There was a lesser-known film adaptation from Hong Kong, simply titled ''Da di'' ("Earth"), which is the book's Chinese title, and it was released in 1954, predating ''Film/SonsOfTheGoodEarth'' by nine years. It's not known how faithful it is to the novel since the movie cannot be found online.
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** Paul Muni and Luise Rainer were immigrants from the Ukraine and Austria, respectively.
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** Paul Muni and Luise Rainer Creator/LuiseRainer were immigrants from the Ukraine and Austria, respectively.
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* CreatorBacklash: Paul Muni disliked the fact that he was playing a Chinese character - "I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover" - and would frequently go AWOL from the set.
* DisownedAdaptation: Pearl S Buck disliked the decision to cast white American actors in the Chinese roles.
* DisownedAdaptation: Pearl S Buck disliked the decision to cast white American actors in the Chinese roles.
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* CreatorBacklash: Paul Muni disliked the fact that he was playing a Chinese character - -- "I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover" - -- and would frequently go AWOL from the set.
* DisownedAdaptation: PearlS S. Buck disliked the decision to cast white American actors in the Chinese roles.
* DisownedAdaptation: Pearl
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** Anna May Wong wanted to play O-Lan but the Hays Code prevented her from playing Paul Muni's wife - due to an anti-miscegnation rule.[[note]]This was to avoid offending conservative areas in the south that were still racially segregated.[[/note]]
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** Anna May Wong Creator/AnnaMayWong wanted to play O-Lan but the Hays Code prevented her from playing Paul Muni's wife - -- due to an anti-miscegnation rule.[[note]]This was to avoid offending conservative areas in the south that were still racially segregated.[[/note]]
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* FakeNationality: Americans playing Chinese characters. Some of the supporting cast are Chinese-American however.
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* FakeNationality: Americans playing Chinese characters. Some of the supporting cast are Chinese-American Chinese-American, however.
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* InMemoriam: The film adaptation was dedicated to Irving Thalberg, who died a year before it was released. The opening credits, which featured the dedication, called the film "his last great achievement."
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* InMemoriam: The film adaptation was dedicated to Irving Thalberg, who died a year before it was released. The opening credits, which featured the dedication, called the film "his last great achievement."achievement".
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** Creator/JamesStewart screen-tested for the part of Wang Lung, and almost got it. Creator/BarbaraStanwyck also screen-tested for O-Lan.
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** Creator/JamesStewart screen-tested for the part of Wang Lung, and almost got it. Creator/BarbaraStanwyck also screen-tested for O-Lan.O-Lan.
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* InMemoriam: The film adaptation was dedicated to Irving Thalberg. The opening credit, which featured the dedication, called the film "his last great achievement."
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* InMemoriam: The film adaptation was dedicated to Irving Thalberg. Thalberg, who died a year before it was released. The opening credit, credits, which featured the dedication, called the film "his last great achievement."
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* InMemoriam: The film adaptation was dedicated to Irving Thalberg. The opening credit, which featured the dedication, called the film "his last great achievement."
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** Paul Muni and Luise Rainer were immigrants from the Ukraine and Austria, respectively.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Chatsworth, California doubled for the 'on-location' scenes.
* CreatorBacklash: Paul Muni disliked the fact that he was playing a Chinese character - "I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover" - and would frequently go AWOL from the set.
* DisownedAdaptation: Pearl S Buck disliked the decision to cast white American actors in the Chinese roles.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** Anna May Wong wanted to play O-Lan but the Hays Code prevented her from playing Paul Muni's wife - due to an anti-miscegnation rule.[[note]]This was to avoid offending conservative areas in the south that were still racially segregated.[[/note]]
** The Chinese government threatened to boycott the film if any Japanese actors were cast.
* FakeNationality: Americans playing Chinese characters. Some of the supporting cast are Chinese-American however.
* TroubledProduction: The Hays Code demanded about twenty rewrites in total and it took about three years to get the film made.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Special effects experts were unable to produce an authentic looking locust plague. They were preparing to abandon the scene when they got word of a real locust swarm several states away. A camera crew was rushed to the scene to film it.
** Filmmakers wanted to shoot some footage in China, but the country was fighting off a Japanese invasion and also dealing with communist rebels, so it was deemed unsafe. Originally they wanted to shoot entirely in China but the government wanted full censorial control. The film ended up shot in America.
** Anna May Wong was offered the role of Lotus as a consolation for not being allowed to play O-Lan. Furious that she was offered the only non-sympathetic character in the story, she turned it down.
** Creator/JamesStewart screen-tested for the part of Wang Lung, and almost got it. Creator/BarbaraStanwyck also screen-tested for O-Lan.
* CreatorBacklash: Paul Muni disliked the fact that he was playing a Chinese character - "I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover" - and would frequently go AWOL from the set.
* DisownedAdaptation: Pearl S Buck disliked the decision to cast white American actors in the Chinese roles.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** Anna May Wong wanted to play O-Lan but the Hays Code prevented her from playing Paul Muni's wife - due to an anti-miscegnation rule.[[note]]This was to avoid offending conservative areas in the south that were still racially segregated.[[/note]]
** The Chinese government threatened to boycott the film if any Japanese actors were cast.
* FakeNationality: Americans playing Chinese characters. Some of the supporting cast are Chinese-American however.
* TroubledProduction: The Hays Code demanded about twenty rewrites in total and it took about three years to get the film made.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Special effects experts were unable to produce an authentic looking locust plague. They were preparing to abandon the scene when they got word of a real locust swarm several states away. A camera crew was rushed to the scene to film it.
** Filmmakers wanted to shoot some footage in China, but the country was fighting off a Japanese invasion and also dealing with communist rebels, so it was deemed unsafe. Originally they wanted to shoot entirely in China but the government wanted full censorial control. The film ended up shot in America.
** Anna May Wong was offered the role of Lotus as a consolation for not being allowed to play O-Lan. Furious that she was offered the only non-sympathetic character in the story, she turned it down.
** Creator/JamesStewart screen-tested for the part of Wang Lung, and almost got it. Creator/BarbaraStanwyck also screen-tested for O-Lan.
