{{short description|1918 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = The Brazen Beauty | image = Brazen Beauty poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Tod Browning | producer = | writer = William E. Wing<br>Louise Winter | starring = Priscilla Dean<br>Gertrude Astor | music = | cinematography = Alfred Gosden | editing = | distributor = Universal Film Manufacturing Company | released = {{film date|1918|9|9}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}
'''''The Brazen Beauty''''' is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Tod Browning. It is not known whether the film currently survives,<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BrazenBeauty1918.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Brazen Beauty'' |accessdate=May 5, 2008|work=silentera.com}}</ref> which suggests that it may be a lost film.
==Cast== * Priscilla Dean as Jacala Auehli * Gertrude Astor as Mrs. Augusta Van Ruysdael * Thurston Hall as Kenneth Hyde * Katherine Griffith as Aunt Ellen * Alice Wilson as Kate Dewey * Leo White as Tony Dewey * Hans Unterkircher as Bruce Edwards (credited as Thornton Church) * Rex De Rosselli * Edith Roberts as Undetermined Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
== Reception == Variety's review was positive, describing the film as being "clean and full of good healthy laughs."<ref>{{Cite book |last= |url=https://archive.org/details/variety52-1918-9/page/n47/mode/2up |title=Variety |date= |publisher=Variety Publishing Co. |others= |location=New York City |publication-date=September 20, 1918 |pages=46 |language=en}}</ref>
==Censorship== Like many American films of the time, ''The Brazen Beauty'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required, in Reel 4, cuts of two scenes and the flashing of three scenes of a young woman in a boat where her gown was considered indecently low.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=7 |issue=16 |page=48 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=October 12, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald07exhi_0#page/n153/mode/1up}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0009963|title=The Brazen Beauty}}
{{Tod Browning}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brazen Beauty, The}} Category:1918 films Category:1918 comedy films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:American silent comedy films Category:Films directed by Tod Browning Category:Universal Pictures films Category:1918 American films Category:1918 English-language films