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Brown of Harvard
Also known as {Brown at Harvard}
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by Jack Conway

Cast: William Haines [Tom Brown], Jack Pickford [Jed Doolittle], Mary Brian [Mary Abbott], Francis X. Bushman Jr. [Bob MacAndrews], Mary Alden [Mrs. Brown], David Torrence [Mr. Brown], Edward Connelly [Professor Abbott], Guinn Williams (Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams) [Hal Walters]; Ernest Gillen (Donald Reed) [Reggie Smythe], Grady Sutton [one of the Dickeys], Richard Alexander [a football fan], Robert Livingston [a Harvard student], Daniel G. Tomlinson [a football trainer], Percy Williams [a butler], Marion Morrison (John Wayne) [Bushman’s football double]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Screen play (scenario) by A.P. Younger, from the adaptation by Donald Ogden Stewart of the play Brown of Harvard by Rida Johnston Young. Settings (art direction and set design) by Cedric Gibbons and Arnold Gillespie (A. Arnold Gillespie). Wardrobe (costume design) by Kathleen Kay and Maude Marsh. Photography (cinematography) by Ira Morgan (Ira H. Morgan). Film editor, Frank Davis. Titles (intertitles written) by Joe Farnham (Joseph Farnham). Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / Released 2 May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as Brown of Harvard (1918).

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: College - Sports: Football

Listing updated: 10 January 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Brownlow-Parade p. 427; Eames-MGM p. 30; Eyman-Wayne pp. 34-35; Kerr-Silent p. 289; McGhee-Wayne p. 315 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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