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Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.
After serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the United States Army Air Service during World War I, Brown was given his first co-directing credit (with Tourneur) for The Great Redeemer (1920). Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall.
Brown moved to Universal in 1924, and then to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he remained until the mid-1950s. At MGM he was one of the main directors of their major female stars, he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.
Brown was nominated five times for six films (see below) for an Academy Award as a director, but he never received an Oscar. However, he won Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina, starring Garbo at the 1935 Venice International Film Festival.
Brown's films gained a total of 38 Academy Award nominations and earned nine Oscars. Brown himself received five Academy Award nominations for six films and in 1949, he won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust.
In 1957, Brown was awarded The George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film. Brown retired a wealthy man due to his real estate investments, but refused to watch new movies, as he feared they might cause him to restart his career.
The Clarence Brown Theater, on the campus of the University of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He holds the record for most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director without a win, with six.
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11 May 1952
An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.
28 April 1933
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
28 November 1952
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bradford's wife Dorothy.
02 August 1925
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again.
20 November 1951
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern.
24 October 1920
A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawing of Christ's crucifixion on the cell wall comes to life.
27 March 1916
Nine rooms of a house are shown, with action occurring in each room simultaneously
19 October 1951
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.
31 January 1941
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
06 October 1933
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
11 May 1944
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance.
20 August 1930
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
20 March 1928
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
20 December 1929
On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all.
03 September 1922
A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron's car. The woman brings the girl back to her house.
09 May 1934
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
19 November 1923
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing.
27 January 1939
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
15 July 1915
This breezy comedy is about a cub newspaper reporter who goes to investigate a family feud, which has erupted into violence again—a parody of the real Hatfield-McCoy feud.
25 December 1925
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite.
31 August 1934
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him.
04 April 1926
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater.
31 January 1931
Yvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists.
21 November 1931
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal.
22 October 1937
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
26 February 1917
A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home.
28 August 1936
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington.
08 November 1925
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive.
26 January 1945
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family.
18 December 1946
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
18 January 1925
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
30 April 1949
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven.
23 December 1932
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
18 March 1953
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
06 May 1988
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology.
15 September 1939
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur.
28 February 1936
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
21 February 1930
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota.
22 November 1949
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired.
30 August 1935
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted.
13 October 1950
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him successful but the fans consider him a villain and boo him mercilessly.
19 June 1921
Three women, each living in a separate social sphere, work out their destinies in New York.
10 May 1940
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York.
11 February 1938
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War.
02 June 1931
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
09 October 1947
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support.
02 January 1932
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
19 August 1923
Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama
25 December 1926
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty.
31 March 1918
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune.
30 April 1932
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow.
19 July 1924
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
21 November 1920
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua.
07 July 1938
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
02 March 1943
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
25 December 1935
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from his wise father.
27 June 1941
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
07 January 1917
Donald MacTavish, the last chieftain of his clan on an island off the coast of Scotland, dies at sea.
20 July 1929
The artistic temperament of a German concert pianist renders him chronically unfaithful to his devoted wife.
15 December 1928
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David.
