The Good Earth (film) the Best Actress award (Luise Rainer), the film won for Best Cinematography. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: 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
Sai Jinhua crafted her headstone. The life of Sai Jinhua had been adapted into several films, plays, and television series. In works she is portrayed as a heroine of the Chinese nation who saves the country single-handedly during a crisis or as a "yaonie" (), a woman with abnormal powers or a female demon. Ying Hu, author of "Tales of Translation: Composing the New Woman in China, 1899-1918", wrote that Sai Jinhua "is often portrayed in extreme colors" in fiction. Ying Hu wrote that "portraits of Sai Jinhua in the first decade of the twentieth century tended to be ambivalent, if not