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.
David Bell (author) is the author of eight novels: He is also the co-editor of an anthology of short fiction: David Bell (author) David J. Bell (born November 17, 1969) is an American author and college professor whose most recent novel, "Somebody I Used to Know", was released from New American Library, a member of Penguin Group USA in 2015. David Jack Bell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended St. Catharine of Siena grade school and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1988. Bell earned his B.A. from Indiana University Bloomington, his M.A. in creative writing from Miami University of