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# The Good Earth (1937): cast and crew

19 cast and 20 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Paul Muni](https://film.one/person/paul-muni.md) as Wang
- [Luise Rainer](https://film.one/person/luise-rainer.md) as O-Lan
- [Walter Connolly](https://film.one/person/walter-connolly.md) as Uncle
- [Tilly Losch](https://film.one/person/tilly-losch.md) as Lotus
- [Charley Grapewin](https://film.one/person/charley-grapewin.md) as Old Father
- [Jessie Ralph](https://film.one/person/jessie-ralph.md) as Cuckoo
- [Soo Yong](https://film.one/person/soo-yong.md) as Aunt
- [Keye Luke](https://film.one/person/keye-luke.md) as Elder Son
- [Roland Lui](https://film.one/person/roland-lui.md) as Younger Son
- [Suzanna Kim](https://film.one/person/suzanna-kim.md) as Little Fool
- [Ching Wah Lee](https://film.one/person/ching-wah-lee.md) as Ching
- [Harold Huber](https://film.one/person/harold-huber.md) as Cousin
- Olaf Hytten as Liu - Grain Merchant
- William Law as Gateman
- Mary Wong as Little Bride
- Philip Ahn as Captain (uncredited)
- [Victor Sen Yung](https://film.one/person/victor-sen-yung.md) as Peasant (uncredited)
- [Richard Loo](https://film.one/person/richard-loo.md) as Farmer (uncredited)
- [Charles Middleton](https://film.one/person/charles-middleton.md) as Banker (uncredited)

## Directing

- [Sidney Franklin](https://film.one/person/sidney-franklin.md): Director

## Writing

- [Claudine West](https://film.one/person/claudine-west.md): Screenplay
- Pearl S. Buck: Novel
- [Talbot Jennings](https://film.one/person/talbot-jennings.md): Screenplay
- [Tess Slesinger](https://film.one/person/tess-slesinger.md): Screenplay
- Donald Davis: Theatre Play
- Owen Davis: Theatre Play

## Production

- [Albert Lewin](https://film.one/person/albert-lewin.md): Associate Producer
- [Irving Thalberg](https://film.one/person/irving-thalberg.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Karl Freund](https://film.one/person/karl-freund.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Slavko Vorkapić](https://film.one/person/slavko-vorkapich.md): Editor
- [Basil Wrangell](https://film.one/person/basil-wrangell.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Douglas Shearer: Recording Supervision
- [Herbert Stothart](https://film.one/person/herbert-stothart.md): Original Music Composer

## Art

- A. Arnold Gillespie: Assistant Art Director
- Edwin B. Willis: Assistant Art Director
- [Cedric Gibbons](https://film.one/person/cedric-gibbons.md): Art Direction
- Harry Oliver: Art Direction

## Costume and make-up

- [Dolly Tree](https://film.one/person/dolly-tree.md): Wardrobe Supervisor

## Crew

- [Irving Thalberg](https://film.one/person/irving-thalberg.md): In Memory Of

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