“RAIN” AS A TALKIE
A FTER months Of preparation and a week’s rehearsal, camera work has begun on “Rain,” Joan Crawford’s new picture, which is being filmed in its entirely in natural settings ou Catalina Island, California. Not a single scene in the drama of the tropics will be photographed in the studios. The Catalina Island isthmus has been transformed into a South Sea settlement, the story locale, a large east of players and a small army of technicians will remain isolated until the picture is completed. Included in the star’s supporting players are Walter Hutson, William Gargan (from the New York stage), Guy' Ixibbee Beulah Bondi, Walter Catlett, Matt Moore, Ben Hendricks, Frederic Howard, and Kendall Lee Glaenzer, another recruit to pictures from Broadway. Miss Crawford portrays the role of Sadie Thompson, Huston is the Reverend Davidson, Gargan is the swashbuckling marine sergeant, and Beulah Bondi is Mrs. Davidson. Shooting will take about five weeks.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 278, 19 August 1932, Page 16
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