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Joe E. Brown
Catalogued films 53Actor 53
Joseph Evans Brown (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973) was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his friendly screen persona, comic timing, and enormous elastic-mouth smile. He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s, with films like A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Earthworm Tractors (1936), and Alibi Ike (1935). In his later career Brown starred in Some Like It Hot (1959), as Osgood Fielding III, in which he utters the film's famous punchline "Well, nobody's perfect."
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Showbiz Goes to War
The Comedy of Terrors
Some Like It Hot
Show Boat
The Tender Years
Hollywood Canteen
Memo for Joe
Pin Up Girl
Casanova in Burlesque
Chatterbox
Shut My Big Mouth
The Daring Young Man
Joan of Ozark
Rodeo Dough
So You Won't Talk?
Beware Spooks!
$1,000 a Touchdown
Hollywood Hobbies
Wide Open Faces
Flirting with Fate
The Gladiator
Fit for a King
When's Your Birthday?
Riding on Air
Breakdowns of 1936
Polo Joe
Earthworm Tractors
Sons o' Guns
A Dream Comes True
Alibi Ike
Bright Lights
6 Day Bike Rider
The Circus Clown
A Very Honorable Guy
Son of a Sailor
Elmer, the Great
You Said a Mouthful
The Tenderfoot
Fireman, Save My Child
Local Boy Makes Good
The Stolen Jools
Sit Tight
Broadminded
Going Wild
Maybe It's Love
The Lottery Bride
Top Speed
Hold Everything
Song of the West
Painted Faces
On with the Show!
Sally
The Circus Kid