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The Rains Came Overview:

The Rains Came (1939) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Darryl F. Zanuck.

Academy Awards 1939 --- Ceremony Number 12 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionWilliam Darling, George DudleyNominated
Best CinematographyArthur MillerNominated
Best Film EditingBarbara McLeanNominated
Best Music - ScoringAlfred NewmanNominated
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The Rains Came BlogHub Articles:

Watching 1939: The Rains Came (1939)

on Sep 13, 2018 From Comet Over Hollywood

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, th... Read full article

E as Chuvas Chegaram / The Rains Came (1939)

By Lê on Nov 15, 2014 From Critica Retro

E as Chuvas Chegaram / The Rains Came (1939) O que alguns astros e estrelas estavam fazendo em 1939, considerado o melhor ano do cinema? Bem, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland e Leslie Howard filmavam “E o Vento Levou / Gone with the Wind”, Garbo ria em “Ninotch... Read full article

E as Chuvas Chegaram / The Rains Came (1939)

By Lê on Nov 15, 2014 From Critica Retro

E as Chuvas Chegaram / The Rains Came (1939) O que alguns astros e estrelas estavam fazendo em 1939, considerado o melhor ano do cinema? Bem, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland e Leslie Howard filmavam “E o Vento Levou / Gone with the Wind”, Garbo ria em “Ninotch... Read full article

The Rains Came (1939)

By Beatrice on Feb 26, 2014 From Flickers in Time

The Rains Came Directed by Clarence Brown Written by Philip Dunne and Julian Josephson from a novel by Louis Bromfield 1939/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation First viewing/Netflix rental Despite some over the top melodrama at the end, I enjoyed this disaster/romantic drama.. (The fictional)... Read full article

31 Days of Oscar: The Rains Came (1939)

By The Lady Eve on Feb 7, 2013 From Lady Eve's Reel Life

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 Newman's commanding score pounds, the title sequence rolls over the dark image of a rain drenched ancient city, and as each hand-lettered title appears it is s... Read full article

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The Rains Came Quotes:

Lady Edwina Esketh: [Speaking to Tom Ransome] That's why we didn't get on. You've always wanted a woman to treat you like a god. *I* treated you as if you were just as bad as myself.
Fern Simon: [Lady Esketh is giving away her jewels to Fern] But I can't take them.
Lady Edwina Esketh: Don't be an idiot. If you and Tom have children, your son might be the Earl of Nolan. He'd have a wife, and she could wear them to boring dinner parties, and tell how they'd been left to her by a shameless wench called Lady Esketh, who died in Ranchipur during the Great Disaster of 1938. We're such snobs at home. We like stories like that.
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: I hope I'm not keeping you from your guests.
Fern Simon: Oh, they're not *my* guests. That's mother's idea of "high society." They're all excited because YOU'RE here.
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: Really? Should I be flattered?
Fern Simon: They say dreadful things about you...
Thomas 'Tom' Ransome: [playfully whispers] What sort of things?
Fern Simon: That you're a drunkard, and a bounder, and a remittance man... They'll hang around you just the same, because your father was an earl.
Maharani: [Last lines, spoken to Major Safti, who is assuming leadership of Ranchipur] The time is here, Rama. Your people are waiting.
Lady Edwina Esketh: Some night you're going to fall flat on your face and people will begin to suspect you drink.
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The Rains Came Facts
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onMarch 18, 1940 with George Brent reprising his film role.
The studio had difficulty finding enough light-gray, black-faced monkeys for the shoot, so the makeup artists actually made up more common-looking monkeys to "fit the part".
Modern sources list Harry Revel as co-writer of the title song; however, he is not listed on the published sheet music or in the ASCAP database for the song.
During filming in 1937, Myrna Loy had a narrow escape when her horse bolted while shooting a scene; she was nearly killed.
The Ranchipur of novelist Louis Bromfield was built on 18 acres of the 20th Century-Fox back lot. The maharajah's palace, which was wrecked room by room in the earthquake, cost $75,000. The breaking of the dam was shot in two nights using 14 cameras.
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