The Good Earth (film) The Good Earth (film) The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, with uncredited contributions by Victor Fleming and Gustav Machaty. The film stars Paul Muni as Wang Lung. For her role as his wife O-Lan, Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Jeanne Mackin Mackin's novels have been written about by Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie in The New York Review of Books, in which she described the mysteries written under the pen name of Anna Maclean as "historically accurate and entertaining". Jeanne Mackin Jeanne Mackin is an American author and a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. Her published novels include "A Lady of Good Family", "The Beautiful American", "The Sweet By and By", "Dreams of Empire", "The Queen’s War" and "The Frenchwoman". She published a trilogy of mysteries with New American Library, writing as Anna Maclean. The mysteries were also translated and