Common Clay (1930 film)

Common Clay
Directed byVictor Fleming
Written byCleves Kinkead (novel)
Jules Furthman
StarringConstance Bennett
Lew Ayres
Music byArthur Kay (uncredited)
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • August 1, 1930 (1930-08-01)
Running time
89 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.246 million (U.S. and Canada rentals) [1]

Common Clay is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Constance Bennett and Lew Ayres, based on the 1915 play of the same name by Cleves Kinkead which starred Jane Cowl.[2]

The film is about a young servant who is seduced by the master of the house who will having nothing else to do with her besides sex because she is of an inferior class. She becomes pregnant and seeks to have the child recognized but his family treats her as if she were a blackmailer.

  1. ^ Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M-152. ISSN 0042-2738.
  2. ^ Common Clay as produced on Broadway at the Theatre Republic, August 26 1915 to May 1916, 316 performances, IBDb.com. Accessed November 14, 2022.