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The Brat

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The Brat
Poster to The Brat (1931)
Directed by	John Ford
Written by	S. N. Behrman Maude Fulton (uncredited) Sonya Levien
Based on	The Brat by Maude Fulton
Starring	Sally O'Neil Alan Dinehart Virginia Cherrill
Cinematography	Joseph H. August
Edited by	Alex Troffey
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 20, 1931 (1931-09-20)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Brat is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford, starring Sally O'Neil, and featuring Virginia Cherrill. The film is based on the 1917 play by Maude Fulton. A previous silent film had been made in 1919 with Alla Nazimova. This 1931 screen version has been updated to then contemporary standards i.e. clothing, speech, topics in the news.^[1]

Plot[edit]

A novelist brings a wild chorus girl home, hoping to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His snobby upper-class family is upset by her presence, but soon she has changed their lives forever.

Cast[edit]

Sally O'Neil as the Brat
Alan Dinehart as Macmillan Forester
Frank Albertson as Stephen Forester
William Collier, Sr. as Judge O"Flaherty
Virginia Cherrill as Angela
June Collyer as Jane
J. Farrell MacDonald as Timson, the butler
Mary Forbes as Mrs. Forester
Albert Gran as Bishop
Louise Mackintosh as Lena
Margaret Mann as Housekeeper
Ward Bond as Court Policeman (uncredited)
Mary Gordon as Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)
George Humbert as Italian Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
Cyril McLaglen as Cyril (uncredited)
Philip Sleeman as Masher in Night Court (uncredited)

Background[edit]

Writer Maude Fulton was an actress as well and starred in the 1917 Broadway premiere of her own play. Two of her co-stars in the play went on to have major film careers, Lewis Stone and Edmund Lowe.^[2] The film was restored in DCP form and exhibited at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in November 2016.

References[edit]

^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Brat

^ Pictorial History of the American Theatre 1860-1970 (this edit. c.1970) by Daniel Blum, p. 163

External links[edit]

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Sound films	The Black Watch (1929) Men Without Women (1930) Born Reckless (1930) Up the River (1930) Seas Beneath (1931) The Brat (1931) Arrowsmith (1931) Air Mail (1932) Flesh (1932) Pilgrimage (1933) Doctor Bull (1933) The Lost Patrol (1934) The World Moves On (1934) Judge Priest (1934) The Whole Town's Talking (1935) The Informer (1935) Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) Mary of Scotland (1936) The Plough and the Stars (1936) Wee Willie Winkie (1937) The Hurricane (1937) Four Men and a Prayer (1938) Submarine Patrol (1938) Stagecoach (1939) Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Long Voyage Home (1940) Tobacco Road (1941) How Green Was My Valley (1941) They Were Expendable (1945) My Darling Clementine (1946) The Fugitive (1947) Fort Apache (1948) 3 Godfathers (1948) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) Wagon Master (1950) Rio Grande (1950) The Quiet Man (1952) What Price Glory (1952) The Sun Shines Bright (1953) Mogambo (1953) The Long Gray Line (1955) Mister Roberts (co-d, 1955) The Searchers (1956) The Wings of Eagles (1957) The Rising of the Moon (1957) Gideon's Day (1958) The Last Hurrah (1958) The Horse Soldiers (1959) Sergeant Rutledge (1960) Two Rode Together (1961) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) Donovan's Reef (1963) Cheyenne Autumn (1964) 7 Women (1966)
Television	"Rookie of the Year" (1955) "The Colter Craven Story" (1960) "Flashing Spikes" (1962)
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