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The Green Pastures (1936) More at IMDbPro »

• Ranked ninth best movie in 1936 in the Film Daily annual poll of critics. The film was banned in many countries.
  
  
• Recreated on the radio on "Cavalcade of America" in 1940 and 1941, both times featuring Juano Hernandez as De Lawd.
  
  
• The original Broadway stage production won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on Feb. 26, 1930 at the Mansfield Theatre in New York and ran for 640 performances. Juanita Hall, who later played "Bloody Mary" in both the stage and film versions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic South Pacific (1958), appeared in the original 1930 stage production of "The Green Pastures".
  
  

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