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Clarence Brown

Highest Rated: 100% Ah, Wilderness! (1935)

Lowest Rated: 40% Idiot's Delight (1939)

Birthday: May 10, 1890

Birthplace: Clinton, Massachusetts, USA

Although he trained as an engineer and expected to pursue a career in the automotive industry, Clarence Brown became enamoured of the burgeoning new industry of filmmaking around 1914 and switched careers. The Massachusetts-born, Tennessee-raised Brown became an assistant to director Maurice Tourneur at Peerless Studio in New Jersey. Following WWI (during which he served as a flying instructor), he rejoined Tourneur and got his first chance to direct a film when his mentor fell ill during the shooting of "The Last of the Mohicans" (1920). Later that year, Brown made his solo directing debut with "The Great Redeemer," co-written by actor John Gilbert.

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100% 60% Ah, Wilderness!
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100% 69% The Human Comedy
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100% 57% Conquest
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100% 76% The Yearling
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98% 78% National Velvet
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94% 84% Flesh and the Devil
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93% 83% Intruder in the Dust
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86% 70% Anna Karenina
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83% 65% Angels in the Outfield
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83% 70% The Eagle
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Clarence Brown ANNA KARENINA, from left: director Clarence Brown, Cora Sue Collins, Fredric March, Greta Garbo on set, 1935 THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER, Irene Dunne with director, Clarence Brown, on set, 1944 THEY MET IN BOMBAY, director Clarence Brown, Rosalind Russell looking at photographs on set, 1941 POSSESSED, director Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford on set, 1931 CHAINED, director Clarence Brown (seated at camera) filming Joan Crawford, Clark Gable cheek to cheek on set, 1934 WIFE VS. SECRETARY, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, 1936 CONQUEST, foreground from left: cinematographer Karl Freund, director Clarence Brown, Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo, 1937 conquest1937-fsct01(conquest1937-fsct01) FLESH AND THE DEVIL, director Clarence Brown, (left), John Gilbert, (in carriage), on-set, 1926 EMMA, Purnell Pratt, Marie Dressler, director Clarence Brown (standing on crane) filming on set, 1932 View more photos

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Never Let Me Go 62% 1953 Producer Plymouth Adventure 35% 1952 Director When in Rome 1952 Director It's a Big Country 25% 1951 Director Angels in the Outfield 83% 65% 1951 Director, Producer To Please a Lady 30% 1950 Director, Producer Intruder in the Dust 93% 83% 1949 Director, Producer The Secret Garden 75% 1949 Producer Song of Love 65% 1947 Director, Producer The Yearling 100% 76% 1946 Director The White Cliffs of Dover 80% 57% 1944 Director National Velvet 98% 78% 1944 Director The Human Comedy 100% 69% 1943 Director, Producer Come Live With Me 69% 1941 Director, Producer They Met in Bombay 62% 1941 Director Edison, the Man 80% 64% 1940 Director Idiot's Delight 40% 47% 1939 Director, Producer The Rains Came 67% 64% 1939 Director Of Human Hearts 52% 1938 Director Conquest 100% 57% 1937 Director The Gorgeous Hussy 31% 1936 Director Wife vs. Secretary 70% 1936 Director, Producer Ah, Wilderness! 100% 60% 1935 Director, Producer Anna Karenina 86% 70% 1935 Director Chained 68% 1934 Director, Producer
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