''Brown of Harvard'', also known as ''Tom Brown at Harvard'', is a 1918 film based on the 1906

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play ''Brown of Harvard'' by

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and the novel by Young and Gilbert Colman. The

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football team and its coach, William "Lone Star" Dietz, participated in filming while in Southern California for the 1916 Rose Bowl.

Plot

As described in a

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, Tom Brown (Moore), a student at Harvard University, is engaged to Evelyn Ames (Daly). Her brother has become desperately involved with Marian Thorne (Winston). In an effort to protect his fiance's brother, the stigma associated with Marian Thorne's condition rests upon Tom. Evelyn breaks her engagement. Wilton Ames (Greene) crowns his borrowing of money from Tom by stealing a blank check and forging it for $300 to get Marion out of the city so that her condition may not get known. Gerald Thorne (McGrail), brother of Marian and

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on the Harvard

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, refuses to enter the race after he is given a spurious note from his sister saying that she is leaving the city and wants to see him. Brown is put in his place and the race is won. Following the race, Gerald confronts him and charges him with being responsible for his sister's downfall. Evelyn demands that Tom marry Marian when Wilton finally confesses that he is the man involved. With Brown shown in his true light a happy reconciliation follows.

Cast

* Tom Moore as Tom Brown * Hazel Daly as Evelyn Ames *

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as Victor Colton (credited as Sydney Ainsworth) *

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as Claxton Madden *

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as Gerald Thorne * Nancy Winston as Marian Thorne * Alice Gordon as Mrs. Ames *

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as Wilton Ames *

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as Cart Wright (credited as Frank Joyner) *

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as Cart Wright * Robert Ellis as 'Bud' Hall *

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as Edith Sinclair *

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as Tubby *

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as Happy (credited as Arthur Hausman) *

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as Jean * William "Lone Star" Dietz Football Player (uncredited)

References

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