On the verge of bankruptcy, undertaker Vincent Price hits upon a novel method of drumming up business. Together with his...
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Cemetery Keeper
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1964
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With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies."...
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1963
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The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters...
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1959
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no...
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1956
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"The Silent Partner" is, along with John Ford's "Rookie of the Year", perhaps the best-known episode of the TV anthology...
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1955
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1955
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Capt. Andy Hawks
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1951
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Rev. Will Norris
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1947
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In this effervescent musical comedy, a stuffy college professor secretly works as a burlesque comedian during the summer....
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Joseph M. Kelly, Jr.
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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Eddie
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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1943
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The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his...
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Wellington Holmes
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1942
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Rex Vane
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1942
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The sure-fire combination of Judy Canova and Joe E. Brown paid off in big laughs and excellent box-office returns in the...
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Cliff Little
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1942
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Back in the 1940s, it was not uncommon for recording artists to cut records exclusively for the jukebox trade, and sometimes...
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1942
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In this war comedy, an army reject becomes a war hero by rounding up a ring of Nazi spies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1942
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This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer...
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1941
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In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and...
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1941
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In this comedy of mistaken identity, a bookish literary reviewer bows to the desires of his lover and shaves off his...
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Brute Hanson,Whiskers
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1940
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This film should have been a press agent's dream: Hollywood's two greatest "big mouths," Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye,...
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Marlowe Mansfield Booth
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1939
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Though Joe E. Brown's starring vehicles of the late 1930s-early 1940s were on the whole decidedly inferior to his earlier...
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Roy Gifford
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1939
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In this crime comedy, a fortune is stolen and every gangster in town is looking for it. They all end up staying at a young...
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Wilbur Meeks
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1938
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Hugo Kipp
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1938
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Flirting with Fate is one of the lesser Joe E. Brown vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew. Brown is cast as Dixon,...
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Dixon
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1938
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On the whole, Joe E. Brown's vehicles for independent producer David L. Loew were distinct retrogressions from his films at...
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Dustin Willoughby
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1937
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Elmer Lane
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, a rookie reporter works for his uncle's newspaper and gets assigned to write a story about an...
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Virgil Jones
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1937
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At the time of its release, Polo Joe was critically lambasted as the worst Joe E. Brown starrer to date. Compared to his...
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Joe Bolton
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a pacifistic song-and-dance man is compelled to don a military uniform for one of his acts. Before...
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Jimmy Canfield
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1936
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Joe E. Brown was an ideal choice for the character of Alexander Botts, the brash, arrogant "natural born salesman" created...
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Alexander Botts
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1936
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Flute
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1935
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In this rollicking adaptation of Ring Lardner's short story, Joe E. Brown plays an ace baseball player whose insistence upon...
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1935
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Joe E. Brown's extensive circus and burlesque training serve him well in this familiar but likeable yarn. Brown and...
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Joe Wilson
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1935
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Joe E. Brown plays a dual role in Circus Clown, as would-be circus entertainer Happy Howard and his rustic old father. When...
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Happy Howard,His Father
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1934
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A Very Honorable Guy is an interesting if not terribly funny change of pace for comedy star Joe E. Brown. This Damon Runyon...
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Feet Samuels
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1934
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1934
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A popular fad of the early 1930s provided the framework for this Joe E. Brown romp. Hoping to impress his girlfriend Phyllis...
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Wilfred Simpson
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1934
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Joe E. Brown plays Elmer Kane, a rookie ballplayer with the Chicago Cubs whose ego is matched only by his appetite. Because...
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Elmer
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1933
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Joe E. Brown is a sailor who hopes to match the accomplishments of his seaman father. Unfortunately, Joe is perhaps the...
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Handsome Callahan
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1933
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Peter Jones
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1932
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Joe E. Brown plays a small town fireman who is also the town's star ballplayer--and an itinerant inventor on the side. Brown...
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Joe Grant
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1932
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The butt of many a practical joke at the office where he works as a clerk, Joe Holt (Joe E. Brown) is nonetheless determined...
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Joe Holt, a shipping clerk
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1932
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In this comedy, a carefree carouser creates trouble for his cousin the chaperone as they go 'round the world. ~ Sandra...
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Ossie Simpson
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1931
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In this comedy, a luckless newspaper reporter heads for a coastal resort and finds himself mistaken for a famous dare-devil...
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Rollo Smith
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1931
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John Miller
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1931
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1931
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Joe E. Brown had a fondness for playing milquetoast characters forced into situations calling for acute athletic prowess,...
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Jojo
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1931
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Broadway star Marilyn Miller's second starring film was an adaptation of her 1925 stage hit Sunny. Flashing her celebrated...
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1930
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Maybe It's Love is one of the many college football musicals which bred like minks in the early talkie era. A very young...
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Speed Hanson
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1930
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Based upon an ambitious but unsuccessful stage operetta by Oscar Hammerstein and Vincent Youmans, Song of the West is set in...
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Hasty
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1930
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The opening attraction at New York's Hollywood Theatre, Hold Everything was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson musical...
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Gink Schiner
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1930
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In this musical comedy, a bored office clerk finds much-needed excitement by masquerading as a millionaire. To do so, he...
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Elmer Peters
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1930
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Based on "Bride 66", a tone poem by composer Herbert Stothart, The Lottery Bride takes place in a distinctly Hollywoodized...
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Hoke Curtis
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1930
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A circus clown creates trouble when he serves on a jury and refuses to convict an innocent young woman for murder. His vote...
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1929
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Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the...
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1929
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Recreating her famous Broadway role from 1920, former Ziegfeld star Marilyn Miller took to the Warner Bros. soundstages with...
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Connie
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1929
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This early talkie antique is a backstage musical from Warner Bros. The plot involves the out-of-town tryout of a new musical...
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Ike Beaton
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1929
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1929
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1929
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In this early talkie, a burlesque team grows tired of playing rural gigs. When the fellow is offered a chance to do a solo...
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1929
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Not even Joe E. Brown's most fervent fans have much to say about his appearance in the 1929 part-talkie My Lady's Past --...
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Sam Young
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1929
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Though conceived and executed as a silent film, The Circus Kid was outfitted with a sound prolog and music and sound-effects...
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King Kruger
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1928
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Bunny
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1928
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"Twisty"
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1928
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Cavern-mouthed comedian Joe E. Brown made his motion-picture debut in the FBO "special" Crooks Can't Win. Surprisingly,...
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1928
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