The Fair Co-Ed
About The Fair Co-Ed
Marion Bright enrolls at college to be near Bob and finds he coaches the women's basketball team. She makes the team and becomes the star. After a fight with Bob she refuses to play. She changes her mind and gets back in time to win the big game.
Cast & crew
More about The Fair Co-Ed
Sam Wood directed it. Irving Thalberg produced it with Wood. Joseph Farnham is credited on the writing. John F. Seitz photographed it. Cosmopolitan Productions made it and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on 15 October 1927. It runs 70 minutes, seven reels. Marion Davies plays Marion Bright. Johnny Mack Brown plays Bob. A synchronized version was issued in 1928.
Themes
Making
William Randolph Hearst disliked the picture and disliked Sam Wood.
Audiences
It was a box-office hit for Marion Davies.
Look
John F. Seitz photographed the campus and the basketball game.
Preservation
A print survives with the former MGM library, now held by Warner Bros.
Notes
- Jane Winton plays Betty. Thelma Hill plays Rose. Lillian Leighton plays the housekeeper. Gene Stone plays Herbert.
- Lou Costello and Joel McCrea are extras. Jacques Tourneur is an extra. Lillian Copeland plays a basketball player.
- William Randolph Hearst called it that cheap-looking comedy and said it went for yap laughs. He disliked Sam Wood.
Scenes
- Marion learns Bob is the women's basketball coach.
- She refuses to play after they quarrel.
- She comes back and the team wins.
Also available
- Internet Archive (the-fair-coed_1927)
- Wikimedia Commons (The Fair Co-Ed (1927).ogg)
