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Clarence Brown ( May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.1 Biography
Born in Clinton, Massachusetts. Brown was educated as an engineer at the University of Tennessee before coming into the film industry as an assistant to Maurice Tourneur. He worked with Tourneur for seven years and they co-directed two of Brown's first three films. Brown moved to Universal in 1924 and then to MGM, where he stayed until the mid- 1940s. At MGM he was one of the main director of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford five times and Greta Garbo five times as well.
He worked across the introduction of sound and continued to use the silent filmA silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the motion picture itself, but before the late 1920s, most films were silent. The years before sound came to the mos visual techniques throughout his career; he did not work particularly well with dialogue. His works can be regarded as considerate and atmospheric, but too often were conventional, placid and slow. Nevertheless, he was nominated seven times for an Academy AwardBob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. The Academy Awards (often better known as Oscars) are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a p (six times as a director, once as a producer) but never received the Oscar.
This Clarence Brown was no relation to the two OhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the northeastern corner of the United States. It was the first and eastern-most state in the Midwest admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. postal abbreviation is OH its old-style abbreviation is O. Ohio is an I congressmenThere are at least three well-known Clarence Browns, as follows 1. Clarence Brown, American movie director 2. Clarence J. Ohio congressman 3. Clarence J. Bud" Brown Jr. Ohio congressman, son and successor to the above. of the same name. The Clarence Brown Theater on the campus of the University of Tennessee is named in his honor.
2 Filmography
- The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
- The Great Redeemer (1920)
- The Foolish Matrons (1921)
- The Light in the Dark (1922)
- Don't Marry for Money (1923)
- The Acquittal (1923)
- The Signal Tower (1924)
- Butterfly (1924)
- The Eagle (1925)
- The Goose Woman (1925)
- Smouldering Fires (1925)
- Flesh and the Devil (1926)
- Kiki (1926)
- A Woman of Affairs (1928)
- The Trail of '98 (1929)
- Navy Blues (1929)
- Wonder of Women (1929)
- Anna ChristieAnna Christie is a play by Eugene O'Neill. It tells the story of a former prostitute who falls in love, but runs into difficulty in turning her life around by her father's jealous lover. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1922. The play has been (1930) - Academy Award Nomination for best director.
- RomanceRomance or romantic can refer to: Romantic love Romantic movements in the arts, Romanticism Romantic poetry Romantic fiction, including but not limited to Romance novels Romance genre in film Romantic comedy Romantic music A type of musical composition ca (1930) - Academy Award Nomination for best director.
- Inspiration (1931)
- Possessed (1931)
- A Free SoulA Free Soul is a 1931 film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with, a mobster whom her father had gotten an acquittal on a (1931) - Academy Award Nomination for best director.
- Emma (1932)
- Letty Lynton (1932)
- The Son-Daughter (1932)
- Looking Forward (1933)
- Night Flight (1933)
- Sadie McKee (1934)
- Chained (1934)
- Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- Wife vs. Secretary (1935)
- The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
- Conquest (1938)
- Of Human Hearts (1938)
- Idiot's Delight (1939)
- The Rains Came (1939)
- Edison, the Man (1940)
- Come Live with Me (1941)
- They Met in Bombay (1941)
- The Human Comedy (1943) - Academy Award Nominations for best director and best picture.
- The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
- National Velvet (1944) - Academy Award Nomination for best director.
- The Yearling (1946) - Academy Award Nomination for best director.
- Song of Love (1947)
- Intruder in the Dust (1949)
- To Please a Lady (1950)
- Angels in the Outfield (1951):
- When in Rome (1952)
- Plymouth Adventure (1952).
