Cast: Joe E. Brown
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joe E. Brown. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Some Like It Hot
1959 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Marilyn Monroe · Jack Lemmon · Tony Curtis · George Raft
Plot Two men (Lemmon and Curtis) hide from the mafia in an all girls band after they witness a murder, and find it hard to keep their cover as women when...
8.3
81K votes
8.3
81K votes
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Spencer Tracy · Milton Berle · Sid Caesar · Jonathan Winters
Plot After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careers over...
6.8
5K votes
6.8
5K votes
Show Boat
1951 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Kathryn Grayson · Ava Gardner · Howard Keel · Joe E. Brown
Plot The story, based on Edna Ferber's famous novel about life on a Mississippi show boat, tells parallel love stories of two doomed marriages. Magnolia (Kathryn Grayson), the sheltered daughter of...
6.4
451 votes
6.4
451 votes
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle · Max Reinhardt
Cast Ian Hunter · Verree Teasdale · Hobart Cavanaugh · Dick Powell
Plot Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the...
6.3
251 votes
6.3
251 votes
The Comedy of Terrors
1963 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Vincent Price · Peter Lorre · Boris Karloff · Joyce Jameson
Plot Alcoholic, wife-beater Waldo Trumbull has run the funeral business he inherited from his father-in-law into the ground. His landlord John F. Black demands a year's unpaid rent or else he...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
The Stolen Jools (S)
1931 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction William McGann · John G. Adolfi · Victor Heerman · Harold S. Bucquet
Cast Buster Keaton · Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Wallace Beery
Plot Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatarium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft...
5.6
32 votes
5.6
32 votes
Hollywood Canteen
1944 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast John Garfield · Joan Leslie · Dane Clark · Robert Hutton
Plot Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. With a little friendly help from John Garfield, Slim gets to kiss...
5.5
45 votes
5.5
45 votes
Pin Up Girl
1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast Betty Grable · John Harvey · Martha Raye · Joe E. Brown
Plot 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...
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The Circus Clown
1934 · Movie · 64 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Joe E. Brown · Patricia Ellis · Dorothy Burgess · Don Dillaway
Plot Joe E. Brown plays a dual role as young acrobat Happy and his father Chuck. In the opening scene we see Chuck Howard telling his old boss at the circus...
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Broadminded
1931 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Mervyn LeRoy
Cast Joe E. Brown · Ona Munson · Marjorie White · William Collier Jr.
Plot Jack's father is sending Jack away to keep him from the gambling, booze, girls and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the...
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The Circus Kid
1928 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction George B. Seitz
Cast Frankie Darro · Poodles Hanneford · Joe E. Brown · Helene Costello
Plot A young waif (Frankie Darro) runs away from a harsh orphanage in order to join the circus.
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6 Day Bike Rider
1934 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Joe E. Brown · Maxine Doyle · Frank McHugh · Gordon Westcott
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Shut My Big Mouth
1942 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction Charles Barton
Cast Joe E. Brown · Adele Mara · Victor Jory · Fritz Feld
Plot Wellington Holmes, a timid and very shy horticulturist, heads for Big Bluff. When the stagecoach is held up by Buckskin Bill and his men, he coincidentally knocks out three of...
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Earthworm Tractors
1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Joe E. Brown · June Travis · Guy Kibbee · Dick Foran
Plot Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't really...
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Son of a Sailor
1933 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Joe E. Brown · Jean Muir · Frank McHugh · Thelma Todd
Plot Sailor Handsome from the aircraft carrier Saratoga meets in San Francisco Helen, a relative of his admiral. Invited at his home he meets a friend from his ship who has...
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Sons o' Guns
1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Joe E. Brown · Joan Blondell · Beverly Roberts · Eric Blore
Plot 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....
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Maybe It's Love
1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Joan Bennett · Joe E. Brown · James Hall · Laura Lee
Plot Maybe It's Love is one of the many college football musicals which bred like minks in the early talkie era. A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan...
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Sit Tight
1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon
Cast Winnie Lightner · Joe E. Brown · Paul Gregory · Claudia Dell
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$1000 a Touchdown
1939 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Joe E. Brown · Martha Raye · Eric Blore · Susan Hayward
Plot A show-biz couple inherit a college on the brink of bankruptcy. In a bid to increase funding they attempt to build up the college football team by offering $1,000 for...
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Alibi Ike
1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright
Cast Joe E. Brown · Olivia de Havilland · Ruth Donnelly · Roscoe Karns
Plot Rookie pitcher Francis "Ike" Farrell comes seemingly out of nowhere to help the Cubs go for the pennant. His idiosyncratic ways, which include excuses and alibis for everything, drive his...
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