Common Clay
Summary:
Ellen Neal (Constance Bennett) is a "nice" girl -- just turned 18 -- who's been picked up in a raid on a speakeasy where she just started working. She pleads guilty to vagrancy, but gets a lecture and warning from the judge to steer clear of places like that, and to try and find honest work. She tries to do precisely that and is hired a year later as a maid in the household of the ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Constance Bennett - (Ellen Neal)
Lew Ayres - (Hugh Fullerton)
Tully Marshall - (W.H. Yates)
Matty Kemp - (Bud Coakley)
Beryl Mercer - (Mrs. Neal)
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Review:
Common Clay is an unexpectedly forward-looking social drama, based on a play by Cleves Kinkead. It intersects with notions of modern feminism, and also manages to criticize the entrenched class system in America, which, as depicted here, holds almost all the cards in legal and economic terms -- and it does so through a refreshingly modern ... Continue >>
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