Miss Sadie Thompson
Miss Sadie Thompson is a 1953 American musical 3D film starring Rita Hayworth, Aldo Ray and Jos 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.
This was Rita Hayworths 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. 3D films had become a fad, with some 3D 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, Hayworths singing was dubbed, this time by Jo Ann Greer. By the time of the premiere on December 23, 1953, interest in 3D had died down considerably. After a twoweek run, all 3D prints were pulled. The film was given a national release flat, in other words, in regular prints, minus the 3D. ........
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