Joe E. Brown

Joe E. Brown

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.

  • Popularity : 3.962
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1891-07-26
  • Place of Birth : Holgate, Ohio, USA
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Joe E. Brown Movies

  • 1959
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    Some Like It Hot

    Some Like It Hot

    8.1 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    Around the World in Eighty Days

    Around the World in Eighty Days

    6.6 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    6.961 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    Hollywood on Parade No. B-4

    Hollywood on Parade No. B-4

    1 1934 HD

    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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  • 1964
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    The Comedy of Terrors

    The Comedy of Terrors

    6.44 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Pin Up Girl

    Pin Up Girl

    6.1 1944 HD

    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....

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  • 1936
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    Earthworm Tractors

    Earthworm Tractors

    5 1936 HD

    A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.

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  • 1944
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    Hollywood Canteen

    Hollywood Canteen

    7.3 1944 HD

    Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas....

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  • 1951
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    Show Boat

    Show Boat

    6 1951 HD

    A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

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  • 1930
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    Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

    Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

    1 1930 HD

    Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.

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  • 1935
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    6.4 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Showbiz Goes to War

    Showbiz Goes to War

    10 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    Fireman, Save My Child

    Fireman, Save My Child

    5 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Joan of Ozark

    Joan of Ozark

    1 1942 HD

    An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director Joseph Santley's broad WWII comedy stars Judy...

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  • 1933
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    Elmer, the Great

    Elmer, the Great

    4.3 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    Bright Lights

    Bright Lights

    4.5 1935 HD

    Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

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  • 1930
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    Going Wild

    Going Wild

    6 1930 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    Alibi Ike

    Alibi Ike

    5.8 1935 HD

    Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.

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  • 1931
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    Sit Tight

    Sit Tight

    5.2 1931 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    6 Day Bike Rider

    6 Day Bike Rider

    5.5 1934 HD

    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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  • 1934
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    The Circus Clown

    The Circus Clown

    6 1934 HD

    A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.

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  • 1929
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    On With the Show!

    On With the Show!

    5 1929 HD

    With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the...

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  • 1930
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    Sally

    Sally

    7 1930 HD

    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....

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  • 1936
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    Sons o' Guns

    Sons o' Guns

    4.3 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    The Tenderfoot

    The Tenderfoot

    6 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    Maybe It's Love

    Maybe It's Love

    4 1930 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    The Lottery Bride

    The Lottery Bride

    4.7 1930 HD

    Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.

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  • 1934
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    A Very Honorable Guy

    A Very Honorable Guy

    2 1934 HD

    Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...

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  • 1983
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    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

    6.5 1983 HD

    Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

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  • 1931
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    Broadminded

    Broadminded

    3.7 1931 HD

    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,...

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  • 1929
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    Painted Faces

    Painted Faces

    4.8 1929 HD

    After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a...

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  • 1939
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    Beware Spooks!

    Beware Spooks!

    7 1939 HD

    A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.

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  • 1933
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    Son of a Sailor

    Son of a Sailor

    5 1933 HD

    A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

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  • 1937
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    Riding on Air

    Riding on Air

    5 1937 HD

    Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane...

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  • 1937
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    When's Your Birthday?

    When's Your Birthday?

    4 1937 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    Hollywood Party

    Hollywood Party

    6.3 1937 HD

    Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are...

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  • 1937
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    Fit for a King

    Fit for a King

    5 1937 HD

    Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story,...

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  • 1938
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    Flirting with Fate

    Flirting with Fate

    7 1938 HD

    A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.

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  • 1936
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    Polo Joe

    Polo Joe

    1 1936 HD

    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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  • 1938
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    Wide Open Faces

    Wide Open Faces

    8.5 1938 HD

    A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.

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  • 1939
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    Hollywood Hobbies

    Hollywood Hobbies

    5.6 1939 HD

    In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

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  • 1930
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    Song of the West

    Song of the West

    1 1930 HD

    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...

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  • 1932
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    You Said a Mouthful

    You Said a Mouthful

    5 1932 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    10 1984 HD

    Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

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  • 1928
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    The Circus Kid

    The Circus Kid

    1 1928 HD

    In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.

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  • 2013
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    Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

    Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored

    5.5 2013 HD

    Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history ....

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  • 1930
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    Top Speed

    Top Speed

    6 1930 HD

    An order clerk poses as a millionaire.

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  • 1931
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    Local Boy Makes Good

    Local Boy Makes Good

    6 1931 HD

    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,...

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  • 1952
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    Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians

    Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

    An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

    3.4 1930 HD

    Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee,...

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  • 1942
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    The Daring Young Man

    The Daring Young Man

    4.3 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1944
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    Casanova in Burlesque

    Casanova in Burlesque

    1 1944 HD

    A stripper (June Havoc) discovers a professor (Joe E. Brown) spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic.

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  • 1974
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    That's Entertainment!

    That's Entertainment!

    7.2 1974 HD

    Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

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  • 1939
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    $1,000 a Touchdown

    $1,000 a Touchdown

    2 1939 HD

    A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

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  • 1940
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    Rodeo Dough

    Rodeo Dough

    5.3 1940 HD

    After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled rodeo.

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  • 1940
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    So You Won't Talk?

    So You Won't Talk?

    5 1940 HD

    A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.

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  • 1942
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    Shut My Big Mouth

    Shut My Big Mouth

    10 1942 HD

    A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

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  • 1934
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    Hollywood Newsreel

    Hollywood Newsreel

    4 1934 HD

    A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner...

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  • 1938
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    The Gladiator

    The Gladiator

    1 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1942
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    Soaring Stars

    Soaring Stars

    1 1942 HD

    Two autograph hounds attend an air show at Santa Anita racetrack.

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  • 1936
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    Breakdowns of 1936

    Breakdowns of 1936

    1 1936 HD

    Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

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  • 1955
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    The Silent Partner

    The Silent Partner

    6 1955 HD

    When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not...

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  • 1931
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    The Stolen Jools

    The Stolen Jools

    5.589 1931 HD

    Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

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  • 1941
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    Polo with the Stars

    Polo with the Stars

    5 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1931
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

    6 1931 HD

    Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort;...

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  • 1931
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    How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'

    How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 1: 'The Putter'

    1 1931 HD

    Bobby Jones gives Frank Craven some helpful tips on his short game.

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  • 1927
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    Twinkle, Twinkle

    Twinkle, Twinkle

    1 1927 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    The Tender Years

    The Tender Years

    7 1948 HD

    A progressive pastor takes on thoughtless brutality (and constitutional scruples against search and seizure) in order to promote animal cruelty...

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  • 1943
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    Chatterbox

    Chatterbox

    1 1943 HD

    While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one--is saved from...

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  • 1930
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    Hold Everything

    Hold Everything

    6 1930 HD

    A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

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  • 1935
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    A Dream Comes True

    A Dream Comes True

    5.5 1935 HD

    A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

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  • 1943
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    Show-Business at War

    Show-Business at War

    7 1943 HD

    A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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  • 1975
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    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

    5.7 1975 HD

    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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  • 1933
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    How to Break 90 #1: The Grip

    How to Break 90 #1: The Grip

    1 1933 HD

    Bobby Jones instructs Joe E. Brown and the other members of their foursome in proper club grip.

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  • 1931
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    How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'

    How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 10: 'Trouble Shots'

    6 1931 HD

    Golf legend Bobby Jones gives his take on trouble shots.

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  • 1944
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    Memo for Joe

    Memo for Joe

    1 1944 HD

    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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  • 1941
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    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

    Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

    6 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1929
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    Molly and Me

    Molly and Me

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1929
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    My Lady's Past

    My Lady's Past

    1 1929 HD

    Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after many years of waiting, Sam falls for a gold...

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  • 1976
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    It's Showtime

    It's Showtime

    7 1976 HD

    A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

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  • 1951
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    Toast to Our Brother

    Toast to Our Brother

    1 1951 HD

    Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Story follows a student (Tom Graeff) as he worries and wonders what...

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  • 2001
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    Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot

    Nobody's Perfect - The Making of Some Like It Hot

    6 2001 HD

    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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  • 1928
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    Take Me Home

    Take Me Home

    1 1928 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Cilla

    Cilla

    10 1968 HD

    A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.

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  • 1957
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    Tonight Starring Jack Paar

    Tonight Starring Jack Paar

    5.7 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1949
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    The Ed Wynn Show

    The Ed Wynn Show

    1 1949 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    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...

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    4.8 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    4.8 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1960
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    Route 66

    Route 66

    6.4 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    The Greatest Show on Earth

    The Greatest Show on Earth

    5 1963 HD

    Johnny Slate successfully manages his circus as it moves from town to town.

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  • 1959
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    Startime

    Startime

    6 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    This Is Your Life

    This Is Your Life

    6.4 1952 HD

    This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961....

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  • 1953
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    The Christophers

    The Christophers

    1 1953 HD

    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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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.6 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6.5 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1955
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    Screen Director's Playhouse

    Screen Director's Playhouse

    6.5 1955 HD

    Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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