''Common Clay'' is a 1930 American
pre-Code film directed by
Victor Fleming
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'', for which he won an Academy Award for Best ...
and starring
Constance Bennett and
Lew Ayres, based on the 1915
play of the same name
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by
Cleves Kinkead
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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 were a blackmailer.
Cast
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Constance Bennett as Ellen Neal
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Lew Ayres as Hugh Fullerton
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Tully Marshall as W.H. Yates
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Matty Kemp as Arthur Coakley
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Purnell Pratt as Richard Fullerton
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Beryl Mercer as Mrs. Neal
*Charles McNaughton as Edwards
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Hale Hamilton as Judge Samuel Filson
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Genevieve Blinn
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Family
Genevieve Nannery was t ...
as Mrs. Fullerton
Trivia
''Common Clay'' was one of the top ten highest-grossing films of 1930,
and that financial success made
Constance Bennett into a Hollywood star.
A previous version of the play had been filmed in 1919 as a silent movie by director
George Fitzmaurice and starring
Fannie Ward. It is now lost.
References
External links
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Synopsis: ''Common Clay'' allmovie.com; accessed February 10, 2016.
American films based on plays
Films directed by Victor Fleming
American black-and-white films
1930 drama films
1930 films
Films with screenplays by Jules Furthman
Fox Film films
American drama films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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