Paul Muni and Luise Rainer in the 1937 film The Good Earth, based on Pearl S. Buck's novel about the struggle of Chinese farmers to survive. Not one Asian played a lead in the film. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Sidney Howard (1891; died August 23, 1939) American playwright; They Knew What They Wanted which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925; Academy Award (Gone with the Wind, 1940)
Pearl S. Buck (1892; died March 6, 1973) American writer and novelist who grew up in China; The House of Earth series: The Good Earth; Sons; A House Divided; China Sky; Peony; The Big Wave; Pulitzer Prize (1932); Nobel Prize in Literature (1938)
Died on this day:
Gilbert White (1793; born July 18, 1720) English naturalist and cleric; A Natural History and Antiquity of Selbourne
Ford Madox Ford (1939; born December 17, 1873) English novelist, poet, critic and editor known for his novels The Good Soldier; Parade's End (tetralogy); The Fifth Queen (trilogy)
Malcolm Lowry (1957; born July 28, 1909) English poet and novelist; Ultramarine; Under the Volcano; Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place; Lunar Caustic; Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid; October Ferry to Gabriola
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