Joe E. Brown

Joe E. Brown

Born: July 26, 1891
Died: July 6, 1973
in Holgate, Ohio, USA
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.

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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Title: Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 29, 2013
Type: Movie
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll see stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Marlene Dietrich, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and more. They're not so perfect after all when these flubbed moments are caught on film!
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Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot
Title: Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Comedy ever made by the American Film Institute.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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Showbiz Goes to War
Title: Showbiz Goes to War
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
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It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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That's Entertainment!
Title: That's Entertainment!
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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Title: Cilla
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 1968
Type: TV
A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.
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The Comedy of Terrors
Title: The Comedy of Terrors
Character: Cemetery Keeper
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Character: Union Official
Released: November 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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Title: The Greatest Show on Earth
Character: Diamond 'Dimey' Vine
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Johnny Slate successfully manages his circus as it moves from town to town.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self - Co-Host
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Title: Route 66
Character: Sam Butler
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
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Title: Startime
Released: October 6, 1959
Type: TV
Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC Television network in the 1959-60 television season.
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Some Like It Hot
Title: Some Like It Hot
Character: Osgood Fielding III
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
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Title: Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: TV
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Stationmaster
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Arthur Vail
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Title: The Christophers
Released: April 20, 1953
Type: TV
The weekly half-hour series featured individuals from various walks of life who used their gifts to make the world a better place.
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians
Title: Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians
Character: Narrator
Released: January 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle to W. C. Fields and Andy Clyde.
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Toast to Our Brother
Title: Toast to Our Brother
Character: Fraternity Alumnus
Released: December 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Short film documenting fraternity life at UCLA in the early 50's.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Character: Cap'n Andy Hawks
Released: July 19, 1951
Type: Movie
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: The Ed Wynn Show
Character: Self
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: TV
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The Tender Years
Title: The Tender Years
Character: Will Norris
Released: January 3, 1948
Type: Movie
A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty protection laws.
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Hollywood Canteen
Title: Hollywood Canteen
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Memo for Joe
Title: Memo for Joe
Character: Self
Released: August 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Documentary short film extolling the virtues of the American Community Chest charity program and its value to the Allied war effort.
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Pin Up Girl
Title: Pin Up Girl
Character: Eddie Hall
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.
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Casanova in Burlesque
Title: Casanova in Burlesque
Character: Joseph M. Kelly Jr.
Released: February 19, 1944
Type: Movie
A stripper (June Havoc) discovers a professor (Joe E. Brown) spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic.
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Show-Business at War
Title: Show-Business at War
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Chatterbox
Title: Chatterbox
Character: Rex Vane
Released: April 27, 1943
Type: Movie
While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one--is saved from disaster by a gregarious local girl. She winds up becoming not only his leading lady in the movie but, because of a set of nutty offscreen circumstances, his fiancé in real life.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Jonathan Peckinpaw / Grandma Peckinpaw
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he sees a chance to redeem himself by exposing a secret ring of Nazi spies.
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Joan of Ozark
Title: Joan of Ozark
Character: Cliff Little
Released: July 15, 1942
Type: Movie
An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director Joseph Santley's broad WWII comedy stars Judy Canova, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Jeffreys and Jerome Cowan.
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Shut My Big Mouth
Title: Shut My Big Mouth
Character: Wellington Holmes
Released: February 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Title: Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
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Polo with the Stars
Title: Polo with the Stars
Character: Self - Polo Player
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in training, and later uses him in a match where Jack Holt and Joe E. Brown are among the players. Edward G. Robinson and Jack Oakie are among the spectators who see Joe. E. Brown knock in the winning score.
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Rodeo Dough
Title: Rodeo Dough
Character: Joe E. Brown
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled rodeo.
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So You Won't Talk?
Title: So You Won't Talk?
Character: Whiskers / Brute Hanson
Released: October 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
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Beware Spooks!
Title: Beware Spooks!
Character: Roy L. Gifford
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.
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$1,000 a Touchdown
Title: $1,000 a Touchdown
Character: Marlowe Mansfield Booth
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
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Hollywood Hobbies
Title: Hollywood Hobbies
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
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Flirting with Fate
Title: Flirting with Fate
Character: Dan Dixon
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
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The Gladiator
Title: The Gladiator
Character: Hugo Kipp
Released: August 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.
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Wide Open Faces
Title: Wide Open Faces
Character: Wilbur Meeks
Released: April 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
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Fit for a King
Title: Fit for a King
Character: Virgil Ambrose Jeremiah Christopher 'Scoop' Jones
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.
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Riding on Air
Title: Riding on Air
Character: Elmer Lane
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.
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Hollywood Party
Title: Hollywood Party
Character: Himself
Released: April 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending the party, they present a number of musical and/or dance performances to entertain the crowd. This set of performances also includes ethnic Chinese actress Anna May Wong modeling some fashions she brought back from her first ever trip to China. Through it all, one of the guests, already inebriated, is having a few problems mixing and serving the cocktails he wants.
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When's Your Birthday?
Title: When's Your Birthday?
Character: Dustin Willoughby
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
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Breakdowns of 1936
Title: Breakdowns of 1936
Character: Self
Released: December 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Polo Joe
Title: Polo Joe
Character: Joe Bolton
Released: November 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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Earthworm Tractors
Title: Earthworm Tractors
Character: Alexander Botts
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Sons o' Guns
Title: Sons o' Guns
Character: Jimmy Canfield
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
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A Dream Comes True
Title: A Dream Comes True
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Flute
Released: October 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Joe Wilson
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
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Alibi Ike
Title: Alibi Ike
Character: Frank "Ike" Farrell
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
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6 Day Bike Rider
Title: 6 Day Bike Rider
Character: Wilfred
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
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The Circus Clown
Title: The Circus Clown
Character: Happy Howard / Chuckles
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: 'Feet' Samuels
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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Hollywood Newsreel
Title: Hollywood Newsreel
Character: Himself
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-4
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood.
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Son of a Sailor
Title: Son of a Sailor
Character: Handsome
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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How to Break 90 #1: The Grip
Title: How to Break 90 #1: The Grip
Released: May 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones instructs Joe E. Brown and the other members of their foursome in proper club grip.
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Elmer, the Great
Title: Elmer, the Great
Character: Elmer Kane
Released: April 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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You Said a Mouthful
Title: You Said a Mouthful
Character: Joe Holt
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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The Tenderfoot
Title: The Tenderfoot
Character: Calvin Jones
Released: May 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
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Fireman, Save My Child
Title: Fireman, Save My Child
Character: 'Smokey' Joe Grant
Released: February 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
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Local Boy Makes Good
Title: Local Boy Makes Good
Character: John Augustus Miller
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'
Character: Self - Golfer (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots.
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Broadminded
Title: Broadminded
Character: Ossie Simpson
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones gives Frank Craven some helpful tips on his short game.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Robbery Suspect
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Sit Tight
Title: Sit Tight
Character: Jojo
Released: February 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown is a wrestler named JoJo and he is forced to enter the ring and face down a musclebound masked opponent (Frank S. Hagney). Making matters worse, the masked marauder is convinced that his wife has been fooling around with JoJo. JoJo is knocked out early in the proceedings, whereupon he dreams he's a sultan surrounded by harem girls. A romantic subplot involves Paul Gregory and Claudia Dell. Gregory works for Dell's father and Dell asks her father to give Gregory a promotion so that she can spend more time with him. When Gregory refuses to be promoted without earning the position, she threatens to have him fired and Gregory quits his job. Gregory attempts to start a new career as a championship wrestler and is trained by Lightner and Brown. When Dell finds out about this, she attempts to stop him and asks for his forgiveness. She pleads with him to not fight but he has already promised...
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Going Wild
Title: Going Wild
Character: Rollo Smith
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Title: Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Character: Joe E. Brown
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.
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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: Yates
Released: October 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the black-sheep son of a wealthy alumnus. Though Nelson is an ace football player, President Sheffield refuses to enroll the boy because of his bad reputation, whereupon Tommy's father withdraws his financial backing and bars his son from ever setting foot on Sheffield's campus. Falling in love with Nan, Tommy signs up with the college under an assumed name, giving up his wastrel ways to lead the football team to victory. Joe E. Brown steals the show as Speed Hanson, a goofy gridiron star who emits a loud and long yell whenever scoring a touchdown (this was, in fact, the first film in which Brown's famous "Yeeeeowww" was heard -- but certainly not the last).
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The Lottery Bride
Title: The Lottery Bride
Character: Hoke
Released: September 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
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Top Speed
Title: Top Speed
Character: Elmer Peters
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
An order clerk poses as a millionaire.
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
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Hold Everything
Title: Hold Everything
Character: Gink Schiner
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
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Song of the West
Title: Song of the West
Character: Hasty
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited for a court martial. As a scout, he is sent to escort a wagon train which is under military escort. It turns out that this escort is his own former regiment. When he meet Davolo, there is another fight and between Stanton and Davolo in which Davolo is killed.
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Sally
Title: Sally
Character: Grand Duke Connie
Released: January 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.
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Painted Faces
Title: Painted Faces
Character: Hermann / Beppo
Released: November 19, 1929
Type: Movie
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.
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On With the Show!
Title: On With the Show!
Character: Joe Beaton
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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My Lady's Past
Title: My Lady's Past
Released: April 1, 1929
Type: Movie
The BFI holds a complete copy.
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Molly and Me
Title: Molly and Me
Released: March 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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Take Me Home
Title: Take Me Home
Character: Bunny
Released: October 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.
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The Circus Kid
Title: The Circus Kid
Character: King Kruger
Released: October 7, 1928
Type: Movie
In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.
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Twinkle, Twinkle
Title: Twinkle, Twinkle
Character: P.T. Robinson
Released: April 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Directing a want to be actor, P. T. Robinson to visually portray emotions, after he told the lady he just met. He tries to emote a variety of human actions for the actress after she asks him to portray some emotions. What an actor.