The Great Meadow
''The Great Meadow'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code adventure film, produced and distributed by MGM with direction by Charles Brabin. The film starred Eleanor Boardman and Johnny Mack Brown. It is based on the novel ''The Great Meadow'' by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, which is similar in theme to ''Drums Along the Mohawk'' by Walter D. Edmonds, which was later made into the 1939 film of the same name directed by John Ford.''The American Film Institute Catalogue of films 1931–40'' c. 1993 by The American Film Institute Plot The title background is a sculpture of an American frontierswoman, a child on her left arm and the barrel of a flintlock in her right hand. The picture is dedicated to the women of the wilderness, “the wives and sweethearts who endured martyrdom for love’s sake ndlie quiet and unsung in the great meadow.” The fortitude of women is the focus of most episodes in the film. In 1777, on their farm in Albemarle County in the Piedmont of Virginia, the Hall famil ...
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Charles Brabin
Charles Brabin (April 17, 1882 – November 3, 1957) was a British-American film director. Biography Born in Liverpool, England, he was educated at St. Francis Xavier College. Brabin sailed to New York City in the early 1900s and, while holding down odd jobs there, he tried his hand as a stage actor. He joined the Edison Manufacturing Company around 1908, first acting, later writing and directing. He was active during the silent era, then pursued a short-lived career in talkies. His last film was '' A Wicked Woman'' for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934. Brabin married his first wife socialite Suzan "Susette" Jeanette Mosher, the daughter of Edwin Howard Mosher and Jennie Slater Mosher of New York City. They wed December 14, 1913, at Bedford Congregational Church in the Bronx, shortly after Brabin returned from a trip to England and Europe. Brabin's best friend, screen actor Marc MacDermott, served as best man. Charles and Suzan Brabin remained married for seven years."United Sta ...
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