The Brat is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford, starring Sally O'Neil, and featuring Virginia Cherrill.

This 1931 screen version has been updated to then contemporary standards i.e. clothing, speech, topics in the news.

[1] A novelist brings a wild chorus girl home, hoping to study her for inspiration for his new novel.

Two of her co-stars in the play went on to have major film careers, Lewis Stone and Edmund Lowe.

[2] The film was restored in DCP form and exhibited at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in November 2016.