31 Days of Oscar: The Rains Came (1939)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ghgoCNNewLQwEwHmduCMjJqhyphenhyphenbI5TZL5cmp0QI0b9GBZkBLxc5fnCql6X2iBaF87t9zSRIDGP9NIKkdGcJC7a2LytDi6vxscdgc1rfpcNPHcE71KLzJ5XHgj51kwAQ6_kmu5wdnAzHk/s1600/Ty+Myrna+and+Brent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ghgoCNNewLQwEwHmduCMjJqhyphenhyphenbI5TZL5cmp0QI0b9GBZkBLxc5fnCql6X2iBaF87t9zSRIDGP9NIKkdGcJC7a2LytDi6vxscdgc1rfpcNPHcE71KLzJ5XHgj51kwAQ6_kmu5wdnAzHk/s400/Ty+Myrna+and+Brent.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no mistaking that drama on a grand scale is about to take place even before the first scene of <i>The Rains Came </i>(1939) begins. Alfred Newman's commanding score <span style="font-size: small;">pounds, the title s<span style="font-size: small;">equence rolls over the dark image of a<span style="font-size: small;"> rain drenched ancient city, and as each hand-lettered title appears it is soon washed from the screen as if swept away in a downpour<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsTajSjs6tWWsJy0X_Wk1y3t9xHMm0L37b2ZtMOOai0gJ-8mrGgUSwOAqch1cbUH5FnHGW9bue2aDSIs8yw1l_p8Dn2-b_DHr71USAR1dIu-w7NrqRAGEvZeaTQCdS9SNt_kyi31zJfAI/s1600/the+rains+came+titles_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsTajSjs6tWWsJy0X_Wk1y3t9xHMm0L37b2ZtMOOai0gJ-8mrGgUSwOAqch1cbUH5FnHGW9bue2aDSIs8yw1l_p8Dn2-b_DHr71USAR1dIu-w7NrqRAGEvZeaTQCdS9SNt_kyi31zJfAI/s640/the+rains+came+titles_opt.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The film opens on a more languid note. A group of Indian musicians plays a song, <span style="font-size: small;">hypnotic and dreamy, beneath a tree filled with chattering monkeys. A white man, taking shade from the heat, observes from the broad veranda where he lounges<span style="font-size: small;">. This lighter<span style="font-size: small;"> tone persists as the man, British expatriate Tom Ransome (George Brent) is visited by his good friend, Major Rama Safti (<a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2012/08/remembering-tyrone-power.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tyrone Power</span></b></a>), and then by an American missionary's wife bearing a party invitation. Later on, lovely and wayward Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy) arrives in India and the mood begins to shift with her troublesome presence<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghkCtbgcynkD3fOWYltgi3Y6Ap0Qw_swyaNfxO3_3VcwFAwTrgu4tt8gE9j1iAfgR7-8GCAnhyphenhyphenoqMS7RYswfXPd75bdBkMN-tKwYXpp7QySujU6cujvCEJidilvXOt4pFwo1HEF53iLEc/s1600/Brent+and+Loy+tryst_opt.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghkCtbgcynkD3fOWYltgi3Y6Ap0Qw_swyaNfxO3_3VcwFAwTrgu4tt8gE9j1iAfgR7-8GCAnhyphenhyphenoqMS7RYswfXPd75bdBkMN-tKwYXpp7QySujU6cujvCEJidilvXOt4pFwo1HEF53iLEc/s320/Brent+and+Loy+tryst_opt.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">George Brent and Myrna Loy, alone in a darkened room somewhere in the palace</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Halfway into this lavish forbidden love/disaster epic,<span style="font-size: small;"> a massive ea<span style="font-size: small;">rthquake strikes and <span style="font-size: small;">triggers a catastrophic flood. As the plot's steamy intrigues have stirred the emotions, so the cinematic vision of quake and flood overwhelms the senses. For these t<span style="font-size: small;">hrilling sequences the very first Oscar for Best <span style="font-size: small;">Special Effects was awarded to <a href="http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com/2010/12/fred-sersen-burns-chicago-and-floods.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Fred Sersen</span></b></a> (visual effects) and E.H. Hansen (sound effects). <i><span style="font-size: small;">The Rains Came</span></i><span style="font-size: small;">, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and dir<span style="font-size: small;">ected by<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113284/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Clarence Brown</span></b></a></span></span> for 20th Century Fox, was nominated for another five Academy Awards.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I</span>t's believed that the first in-c<span style="font-size: small;">amera special effect was part of a short film <span style="font-size: small;">sequence<span style="font-size: small;"> titled <i>The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots</i> <span style="font-size: small;">(1895)</span></span></span>. The effect of a be-heading was achieved with the use of a dummy and a shot known as a substitution shot or a st<span style="font-size: small;">op trick. A few years later pioneering George Melies produced his 14 minute <span style="font-size: small;">effects-laden</span> <i>La voyage dans la lune</i><span style="font-size: small;">/<i>A Trip to the Moon </i>(1902) and by 1923 Cecil B. DeMille was able to simulate the parting of the Red Sea for the first time with his original version of <i>The Ten<span style="font-size: small;"> C</span>ommandments</i>. When the first Academy Awards were presented for 1928 a plaque for Best Engineering Effects was given to Roy Pomeroy for <i>Wings</i>, but the category did no<span style="font-size: small;">t continue. An honorary award was presented to Gordon Jennings (and shared with others) for effects created on 1938's <i>Spawn of the North</i>; <span style="font-size: small;">the <span style="font-size: small;">following year the Best Special Effects category was established. 1939, that banner year of legendary Hollywood films, was  <i>Gone with the Wind</i>'s year when it came to record-breaking Academy Award wins (eight). Among the five it did not win was the special effects award taken by <i>The Rains Came</i>; a total of seven films had been nominated in the <span style="font-size: small;">category</span> including <i>The Wizard of Oz</i>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpB8meI4Z83Vt8lfSpgHBlISHiw6PuGh8lTlIy0OiMgb5ggJB783T6f4ATC7IS1zSBOCfhjvdUNhbw-GLSLB7g30nvxxnqGIVR78cZ_8PpW92ZaIZeRgy7PajxH9UI72Ac7SrMU84TGU8/s1600/Loy+and+Power_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpB8meI4Z83Vt8lfSpgHBlISHiw6PuGh8lTlIy0OiMgb5ggJB783T6f4ATC7IS1zSBOCfhjvdUNhbw-GLSLB7g30nvxxnqGIVR78cZ_8PpW92ZaIZeRgy7PajxH9UI72Ac7SrMU84TGU8/s320/Loy+and+Power_opt.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power at the Maharani's music school</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span id="goog_466238980"></span><span id="goog_466238981"></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Rains Came</i> <span style="font-size: small;">was based on <a href="http://www.ohioana-authors.org/bromfield/highlights.php"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Louis Bromfield</span></b></a>'s best-selling 1937 novel, <i>The Rains Came: A Novel of Modern India</i><span style="font-size: small;">. Set in the fictional Indian state of Ranchipur during the last years of the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/independence1947_01.shtml"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>British Ra<span style="font-size: small;">j</span></b></span></a>, the story follows three principal characters. Tom Ransome (Brent) is a charming sot of a British 'younger son' (ar<span style="font-size: small;">istocrat) who arrived Ranchipur seven years earlier to paint a <span style="font-size: small;">still unfinished portrait. Lady Edwina Esketh (L<span style="font-size: small;">oy) is the jaded and promiscuous trophy wife of the much older and unrelentingly boorish Lord Esketh (Nigel Bruce). Major Rama Safti (Power) is a high-caste Indian doctor who trained in the U.S. and returned to Ranchipur, bringing with him the mo<span style="font-size: small;">dern practice of medicine and enlightened social values. Early on, Ransome and Lady Esketh, former lovers, meet at a party in the royal palace. After the two slip away from the festivities for a bit of private passion, they return and Lady Esketh's roving eye falls upon the handsome 'pale copper Apollo,' Major Safti. To Ransome's displeasure, Edwina makes it clear she plans to seduce the young doctor. Meanwhile, Ranchipur looks forward to the end of its dry <span style="font-size: small;">season and all anxiously await the coming of the rain. When it comes, it arrives in an unending torrent. Soon a powerful e<span style="font-size: small;">arthquake hits and the swollen local dam collapses. The ensuing calamity disrupts the best laid plans, virtuous and scandalous alike, of everyone in Ranchipur.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YZzkJyxyqnPG9TqUVTscA3fNNIOxqb2txOqH7r-StiQGNXWE6_Gy3j6yt9OnA_eVShauw55sklFBTYaLTItikfjGc2uci4jsi4RVlTer82y_b9CovKUh32W1SVlpK_9-160DGjqegLo/s1600/Rains+Came+Fred+Sersen+dwg+for+TRC_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YZzkJyxyqnPG9TqUVTscA3fNNIOxqb2txOqH7r-StiQGNXWE6_Gy3j6yt9OnA_eVShauw55sklFBTYaLTItikfjGc2uci4jsi4RVlTer82y_b9CovKUh32W1SVlpK_9-160DGjqegLo/s400/Rains+Came+Fred+Sersen+dwg+for+TRC_opt.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Fred Sersen's drawing for flood scene<i></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLr1VHSuEa51FG6u5Hdl9dgPp-Z0qos0RGmbK_h268vD9GP-XGyquJTT0ewg8JvCpx01eju1PJiu5kGP6wTwcaJ63w7s76T7BnlmpbFx3bi-Qg3o4Q1iYzOekfSsUR2PBZStwehLziEpw/s1600/Rains+Came+flood+scene_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLr1VHSuEa51FG6u5Hdl9dgPp-Z0qos0RGmbK_h268vD9GP-XGyquJTT0ewg8JvCpx01eju1PJiu5kGP6wTwcaJ63w7s76T7BnlmpbFx3bi-Qg3o4Q1iYzOekfSsUR2PBZStwehLziEpw/s400/Rains+Came+flood+scene_opt.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Flood scene</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">According to The Hollywood Reporter<span style="font-size: x-small;">, the film was budgeted at $2,500,000 with $500,000 for sets and $500,<span style="font-size: x-small;">000 for the flood and earthquake scenes. A tank holding 50,000 gallons of water was constructed on a Fox sound stage to create the effects for the flood scenes. 350 grips, carpen<span style="font-size: x-small;">ters and<span style="font-size: x-small;"> other<span style="font-size: x-small;">s worked on these sequences for more than a month. </span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><it and="" author="" background="" bromfield="" characters="" environment="" grow="" must="" of="" out="" philosophy="" rathe="" s="" span="" story="" that="" the="" their="" was="">It was author Bromfield's philosophy that "<span style="font-size: small;">the story must grow out of the characters, their environment and b<span style="font-size: small;">ackground" rather</span></span> than "be imposed on a plot."  </it>The natural disaster of the earthquake, along with <span style="font-size: small;">the </span>flood, fires and cholera that follow, profoundly alters <span style="font-size: small;">each</span> main character. Tom Ransome and Lady Esketh, both molded in the world of the British aristocracy, are transformed. Ransome, whose expat life in exotic Ranchipur had grown dissolute and stale, is restored, finding new purpose in the aftermath through service to the Maharani and in discovering new love. Edwina Esketh, once the incarnation of chilly self-indulgence, volunteers at Major Safti's hospital. Having fallen in love with the doctor and no longer in predatory pursuit of him, she wishes to be useful and helpful in his work. Noble Major Safti, who has been a model of duty and devotion to his country as well as a symbol of "the new India," realizes that he cannot - <span style="font-size: small;">and will not -</span> reason away what has awakened in his heart. These characters and a narrative of il<span style="font-size: small;">licit love set in a colonial outpost are what make <i>The Rains Came</i> connect as something more than a beautifully filmed and scored special effects extravaganza.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cast against type (something that rarely happened once she became MGM's "ideal wife"), <span style="font-size: small;">Myrna Loy</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">is entirely <span style="font-size: small;">believable as man-eating Edwin Esketh, a spoiled woman who is humbled and changed by love and cir<span style="font-size: small;">cumstance. Sparks fly when Loy <span style="font-size: small;">shares the screen with Tyrone Power. One of Power's stren<span style="font-size: small;">gths is his ability to underplay in in<span style="font-size: small;">timate scenes. His resonant voic<span style="font-size: small;">e softens and takes on a hint of velvet as he communicates emotion through his eyes. The effect is heart-melting warmth.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Loy and Power share one especially tender scene that takes place in the early morning on a hospital ward. That scene is included at the end of the following clip which also contains a classic sequence in which the very tired Lady Esketh makes and <span style="font-size: small;">then </span>realizes that she's made a horrific mistake (listen for the sustained-string musical<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>cue): <span style="color: red;">6/3/13 update: the YouTube clip originally included below was recently deleted from the site.</span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Q08NLpvtdKw" width="420"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span>  <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">George Brent, who received third billing, is the actual male lead and he, like Loy, believably conveys his character's transformation, in Ransome's case from roue to responsible citizen.  Ransome's involvement with infatuated young Fern Simon (Brenda Joyce) is the film's other dangerous romance.  She is <i>very </i>young, he is decades older and has a reputation.<i> </i>This was Joyce's film debut and it shows. She is a beautiful girl but green and awkward onscreen. Zanuck had initially considered Lana Turner for the role but, unfortunately, settled on the Fox starlet instead. Solid in supporting roles are Nigel Bruce (Lord Esketh), Maria Ouspenskaya (Maharani), H.B. Warner (Maharajah) and Mary Nash (Miss McDaid). As was the custom then, all the key Indian characters are portrayed by Caucasian actors: Power, Ouspenskaya, Warner and Joseph Schildkraut (Mr. Bannerjee).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.americancomposers.org/raksin_newman.htm"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Alfred Newman</span></b></a>'s stunning score for <i>The Rains Came</i> is a favorite of mine.  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dramatic (the main theme) and </span>romantic (he uses the sweet and haunting "Hindoo Love Song" as Lady Esketh and Major Safti's love theme), it is also chilling (the music cues that signal danger, as in the scene shown above). Newman received an Oscar nomination for his score (as well as for three other films he scored that year: <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, <i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame </i>and <i>They Shall Have Music</i>). In all, Alfred Newman was nominated for 45 Oscars, won 9 (a record) and is considered one of the "three godfathers" of film music along with Max Steiner and Dmitri Tiomkin.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Rains Came</i> does not masquerade as a realistic depiction of India in the 1930s (there is no mention of Gandhi or British oppression), it is a visually dazzling romantic epic - a true Hollywood Movie - and irresistible.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~</div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Rains Came</i> airs Friday morning, February 8, at 9:30am Eastern/6:30am Pacific on Turner Classic Movies as part of its annual "31 Days of Oscar" celebration. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~</div><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oscar Nominations</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Special Effects  - Fred Sersen, E.H. Hansen (winner)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Music/Original Score - Alfred Newman</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cinematography - Arthur C. Miller</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Art Direction - William S. Darling, George Dudley</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Film Editing - Barbara McLean</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sound Recording - E. H. Hansen</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">~</div><br /><b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This post is my entry in the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken & Freckled and Paula's Cinema Club. <a href="http://aurorasginjoint.com/2013/01/25/31-days-of-oscar-blogathon-update/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Click here</span></a> for a link to a listing of participating blogs.</span></i></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3eoOGICxHW-Y6uyYwtrldKgho0M892BimA6IloWOnzR_VZMOBkQ6RsdreIOVnnncnqdBlujJOP5yeC98mBzdrGFPaCLFPAvjjoxSS2UXfFTS8VSyHH_PNkfLwAnrXyMegSVWYwDe-24/s1600/31days-800_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3eoOGICxHW-Y6uyYwtrldKgho0M892BimA6IloWOnzR_VZMOBkQ6RsdreIOVnnncnqdBlujJOP5yeC98mBzdrGFPaCLFPAvjjoxSS2UXfFTS8VSyHH_PNkfLwAnrXyMegSVWYwDe-24/s320/31days-800_opt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />

1939 31 Days of Oscar 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon Best Special Effects Clarence Brown Fred Sersen George Brent Myrna Loy Special Effects TCM The Lady Eve (author) The Rains Came Tyrone Power 31 Days of Oscar: The Rains Came (1939)

There is no mistaking that drama on a grand scale is about to take place even before the first scene of The Rains Came (1939) begins. Alfred...

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