Brass
About Brass
Philip Baldwin leaves the family farm for business in the city. He marries very young. The match fails and he divorces. Convinced that a happy marriage is out of reach, he gets one interval of it with a woman who loves him and gives things up for him, then has to start again.
Cast & crew
More about Brass
Sidney Franklin directed for Warner Bros. Julien Josephson adapted Charles Gilman Norris's 1921 novel, and Sada Cowan wrote the titles. Harry Rapf produced. Norbert Brodine photographed it. Monte Blue plays Philip Baldwin, Marie Prevost plays Marjorie Jones, and Irene Rich plays Mrs. Grotenberg.
Themes
Background
Norris's novel argued about marriage, divorce, and what a wife was expected to put up with. The Warner picture keeps that argument inside a romantic drama.
Look
Norbert Brodine was the cinematographer.
Preservation
The film survives complete. A 16mm television reduction was made by Associated Artists Productions in the 1950s.
Notes
- The source is Brass, a 1921 novel by Charles Gilman Norris.
- Frank Keenan plays Frank Church and Helen Ferguson plays Rosemary Church.
- Harry Myers plays Wilbur Lansing. Ethel Grey Terry plays Leila Vale.
- Associated Artists Productions transferred a complete print to 16mm in the 1950s for television.
- Warner Bros. both produced and released it.
Scenes
- Philip leaves the farm and marries before he has much of a life in the city.
- After the divorce, the only stretch of happiness in the story is the one he spends with the woman who gives things up for him.
Influenced by
- Brass (Charles Gilman Norris novel, 1921)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-brass)
