Brown of Harvard
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jack Conway
Jack Pickford
Mary Brian
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Mary Alden
David Torrence
Film Details
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Synopsis
Tom Brown, a breezy, handsome youth with a Don Juan reputation, quickly becomes popular at Harvard but soon is temperamentally opposed to Bob McAndrews, a studious, reserved boy who becomes his chief rival for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter. Tom rooms with Doolittle (Doo), an awkward but goodhearted backwoods youth who comes to idolize Tom. At a party, Tom forcibly kisses Mary, and a tussle with McAndrews follows. Later, Tom challenges Mac as stroker on the college rowing team but loses; and when he forces a confession of love from Mary, he takes to drink in shame. When he replaces Mac in a match against Yale, Tom collapses and is disgraced but is persuaded by his father to go out for football. To save his friend's reputation, Doo, who is ill, exposes himself to rain and is hospitalized. Tom plays in a game against Yale and at a crucial moment gives Mac a chance to score for the team; he goes to tell Doo of the victory, but Doo dies shortly afterward. Tom is acclaimed a hero and is happily united with Mary.
Director
Jack Conway
Cast
Jack Pickford
Mary Brian
Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Mary Alden
David Torrence
Edward Connelly
Guinn Williams
Ernest Gillen
William Haines
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
An earlier adaptation of Rida Johnson Young's story was made in 1918 by the Selig Polyscope Co., directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Tom Moore and Hazel Daly (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20).
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring April 5, 1926
b&w
7941 feet
Released in United States Spring April 5, 1926
