Clarence Brown

A Woman of Affairs is a 1928 drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Lewis Stone. The film was based on a 1924 play by Michael Arlen, The Green Hat; as the play was considered...

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...she married for a third time. Her last marriage came in 1933, to film director Clarence Brown. They divorced in 1945. The actress retained Brown's name. She resided at 17908 Parthenia St., Northridge, California. In 1946. Brown remained...

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...film proved to be more than two hours long. Saroyan was not at all happy with the film as completed by Brown, and he wrote his novel from the script he produced. The novel was published at the same time as the film's release with the intent...

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...1890 - August 17, 1987) was an American film director. Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to a cotton manufacturer, Brown moved to the South when he was eleven. He attended the University of Tennessee, graduating at the age of 19 with two...

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...studio starlets for the big parts. Eventually, through sheer annoying persistence, Sara and Elizabeth convinced director Clarence Brown to give her the part of Velvet. But the producer felt Elizabeth was too short and demanded that she grow...

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...in the beginning of the story. About 17 movies and TV Series have been made by the name Emma , first was Oscar nominated in 1932 (Clarence Brown) and the latest one coming up in 2010. Two films named Aisha are also already in existence.

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...and she later graduated from UCLA. After working at the Pasadena Playhouse, she came to the attention of the director Clarence Brown when he was looking for an actress to stand-in for Greta Garbo in screen tests. This led to a contract with...

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...this timely, eco-friendly movie - about a gardener in space, played by Brue Dern - is ready for its close-up. The Yearling (Clarence Brown, 1946) It hasn't seen the inside of a cinema since a brief rerelease in Finland in 1962. Audiences...

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...peak. Garbo's MGM classic, a romantic triangle with a twist ending, was the creation of one of her most sympathetic directors, Clarence Brown. They went on to work together on adaptations of "Anna Christie" and "Anna Karenina," though...

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...landmark, Native Land (1942). He earned his first feature screenplay credit with Framed (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's The Asphalt...

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