Lummox (1930)
January 13, 1930
Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Winifred Westover
Bertha Oberg

Dorothy Janis
Chita

Lydia Yeamans Titus
Annie Wennerberg

Ida Darling
Mrs. Farley

Ben Lyon
Rollo Farley

Sidney Franklin
Mr. Meyerbogen

Myrta Bonillas
Veronica Neidringhouse

Herbert Brenon
Director

Cosmo Kyrle Bellew
John Bixby

Elizabeth Meehan
Adaptation

Fannie Hurst
Novel

Karl Struss
Director of Photography

Clara Langsner
Mrs. Wallenstein Sr

Hugo Riesenfeld
Composer

Marie Halvey
Editor
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Wiki.
Lummox is a 1930 American pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Winifred Westover. It was released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst.
Sound engineer Ed Bernds did not have fond memories of Brenon. "So many of the silent film directors were phonies. I didn't think highly of Herbert Brenon, for instance. He was the old, imperious type of director. Lordly, demanding. There was a scene in Lummox, where Winifred Westover was supposed to be betrayed by Ben Lyon, who has gotten her pregnant. He throws some money down and she takes the money and tears it up with her teeth. Well, Brenon demanded real money! And several takes. The poor propman was going around borrowing money from the crew. It was the Imperial syndrome of silent film directors."