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

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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

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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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