Brown Sugar (1922 film)
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Brown Sugar is a 1922 British
silent
romance film
directed by Fred Paul
and starring Owen Nares
, Lillian Hall-Davis
and Eric Lewis
. It was based on a play by Lady Arthur Lever
.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
romance film
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...
directed by Fred Paul
Fred Paul
Fred Paul was a Swiss-born British actor and film director. Paul was born in Lausanne in 1880 but moved to Britain at a young age. He was a prolific actor and directors in the 1910s and 1920s, but his career dramatically declined with the arrival of sound films.-Selected filmography:Director* The...
and starring Owen Nares
Owen Nares
Owen Ramsay Nares had a long stage and film career and, for most of the 1920s, was Britain's favourite matinée idol and silent film star...
, Lillian Hall-Davis
Lillian Hall-Davis
Lillian Hall-Davis was a British actress during the silent era.The daughter of a London taxi driver, her films included a part-color version of I Pagliacci , The Passionate Adventure , Quo Vadis , Blighty , The Ring and The Farmer's Wife , the latter two both directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
and Eric Lewis
Eric Lewis
Eric Robert Lewis , better known by his stage name ELEW, is an American jazz pianist who has found crossover success playing rock and pop music...
. It was based on a play by Lady Arthur Lever
Arthur Lever
For the Wales international footballer see Arthur Lever Sir Arthur Levy Lever, 1st Baronet , known as Arthur Levy until 1896, was a Liberal Party politician in England....
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Cast
- Owen NaresOwen NaresOwen Ramsay Nares had a long stage and film career and, for most of the 1920s, was Britain's favourite matinée idol and silent film star...
- Lord Sloane - Lillian Hall-DavisLillian Hall-DavisLillian Hall-Davis was a British actress during the silent era.The daughter of a London taxi driver, her films included a part-color version of I Pagliacci , The Passionate Adventure , Quo Vadis , Blighty , The Ring and The Farmer's Wife , the latter two both directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
- Stella Deering - Eric LewisEric LewisEric Robert Lewis , better known by his stage name ELEW, is an American jazz pianist who has found crossover success playing rock and pop music...
- Earl of Knightsbridge - Henrietta WatsonHenrietta Watson-Selected filmography:* Creeping Shadows * Jealousy * Collision * A Shot in the Dark * The Pointing Finger * Things Are Looking Up * Barnacle Bill * The Guv'nor...
- Countess of Knightsbridge - Cyril Dane - Edmundson
- Margaret Halstan - Honoria Nesbitt
- Louise HamptonLouise Hampton-Selected filmography:* Nine Till Six * His Lordship Goes to Press * Goodbye, Mr. Chips * The House of the Arrow * Bedelia * Scrooge * Background -External links:...
- Miss Gibson - Gladys Harvey - Mrs. Cunningham
- Eric Leighton - Crowbie Carruthers