Joe E. Brown
Birthday: 1891-07-26
Place of Birth: Holgate, Ohio, USA
Biography: Joseph Evans Brown (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973) was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his amiable screen persona, comic timing, and enormous smile. In 1902 at the age of nine, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvelous Ashtons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits. Later he became a professional baseball player. After three seasons he returned to the circus, then went into Vaudeville and finally starred on Broadway. He gradually added comedy into his act and transformed himself into a comedian. He moved to Broadway in the 1920s first appearing in the musical comedy Jim Jam Jems. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe E. Brown , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Some Like It Hot
Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunit...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with ...
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The Comedy of Terrors
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. T...
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Pin Up Girl
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost ever...
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Earthworm Tractors
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl....
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Hollywood Canteen
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entert...
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Show Boat
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boa...
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, ...
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Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...
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Fireman, Save My Child
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to pla...
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Joan of Ozark
An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director...
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Elmer, the Great
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, w...
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Bright Lights
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head....
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Going Wild
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and...
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Alibi Ike
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitch...
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Sit Tight
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown i...
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6 Day Bike Rider
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day r...
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The Circus Clown
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father....
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On With the Show!
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters,...
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Sally
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the...
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The Tenderfoot
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns ...
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Sons o' Guns
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays t...
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Maybe It's Love
A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The n...
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The Lottery Bride
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway....
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A Very Honorable Guy
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacterist...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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Broadminded
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debau...
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Painted Faces
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a t...
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Beware Spooks!
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island....
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Riding on Air
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chica...
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Hollywood Party
Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introd...
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When's Your Birthday?
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes...
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Fit for a King
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attem...
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Polo Joe
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he ...
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Wide Open Faces
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy....
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Hollywood Hobbies
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood star...
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Song of the West
Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited fo...
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You Said a Mouthful
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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The Circus Kid
In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Ci...
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers f...
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Local Boy Makes Good
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and ...
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Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians
Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of ...
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a din...
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The Daring Young Man
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he se...
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Casanova in Burlesque
A stripper (June Havoc) discovers a professor (Joe E. Brown) spends summer teaching Shakespeare and ...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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$1,000 a Touchdown
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to...
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Rodeo Dough
After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled ro...
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Shut My Big Mouth
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west....
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So You Won't Talk?
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison....
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Hollywood Newsreel
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winn...
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The Gladiator
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team,...
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Breakdowns of 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936....
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxin...
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Polo with the Stars
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponie...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'
Bobby Jones gives Frank Craven some helpful tips on his short game....
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Twinkle, Twinkle
Directing a want to be actor, P. T. Robinson to visually portray emotions, after he told the lady he...
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The Tender Years
A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and ...
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Chatterbox
While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly th...
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A Dream Comes True
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots....
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How to Break 90 #1: The Grip
Bobby Jones instructs Joe E. Brown and the other members of their foursome in proper club grip....
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Memo for Joe
Documentary short film extolling the virtues of the American Community Chest charity program and its...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the...
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My Lady's Past
Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after ...
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Toast to Our Brother
Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Story follows a student ...
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Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Come...
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Take Me Home
Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy...
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