Beau Brummel (1924) (MOD)

Beau Brummel (1924) (MOD)Beau Brummel (John Barrymore) is a dandy, a ladies' man, a social climbing commoner admitted to English royal circles. Lady Margery Alvanley (Mary Astor) adores him, but is forced to marry a richer man. Their doomed affair and Brummel's fall into poverty and disgrace after a single unwise remark forms the dramatic heart of this opulent 1924 silent classic. Barrymore, then at the peak of his screen power, personifies dash and brio. Astor, poised to

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