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Common Clay (1930 film)

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Director
  
Victor Fleming

Music director
  
Arthur Kay

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

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Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Jules Furthman

Language
  
English

Common Clay (1930 film) movie poster

Writer
  
Cleves Kinkead
,
Jules Furthman

Release date
  
August 1, 1930 (1930-08-01)

Cast
  
Constance Bennett
(Ellen Neal),
Lew Ayres
(Hugh Fullerton),
Tully Marshall
(W.H. Yates),
Matty Kemp
(Arthur Coakley),
Purnell Pratt
(Richard Fullerton),
Beryl Mercer
(Mrs. Neal)

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Common Clay is a 1930 American Pre-Code film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Constance Bennett and Lew Ayres, based on the play of the same name by Cleves Kinkead which starred Jane Cowl. The film is about a young servant who is seduced by the master of the house who will having nothing else to do with her besides sex because she is of an inferior class. She becomes pregnant and seeks to have the child recognized but his family treats her as if she was a blackmailer.

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Cast

  • Constance Bennett as Ellen Neal
  • Lew Ayres as Hugh Fullerton
  • Tully Marshall as W.H. Yates
  • Matty Kemp as Arthur Coakley
  • Purnell Pratt as Richard Fullerton
  • Beryl Mercer as Mrs. Neal
  • Charles McNaughton as Edwards
  • Hale Hamilton as Judge Samuel Filson
  • Genevieve Blinn as Mrs. Fullerton
  • Trivia

    Common Clay was one of the highest-grossing films of 1930 and it made Constance Bennett into a Hollywood star.

    A previous version of the play had been filmed before in 1919 as a silent movie by director George Fitzmaurice and starring Fannie Ward. It is now lost.

    References

    Common Clay (1930 film) Wikipedia
    Common Clay (1930 film) IMDb Common Clay (1930 film) themoviedb.org