Brown Sugar (1922 film)

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Brown Sugar
Directed by Fred Paul
Written byLady Arthur Lever (play) Walter Summers
Produced by G.B. Samuelson
Starring Owen Nares
Lillian Hall-Davis
Eric Lewis
Henrietta Watson
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company
Distributed byJury Films
Release date
  • 1922 (1922)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

Brown Sugar is a 1922 British silent romance film directed by Fred Paul and starring Owen Nares, Lillian Hall-Davis and Eric Lewis. [1] It was based on a play by Lady Arthur Lever.

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