List of the best Joe E. Brown movies: The Tender Years(1947), Earthworm Tractors(1936), Bright Lights(1935), Local Boy Makes Good(1931), A Very Honorable Guy(1934), Elmer the Great(1933), Alibi Ike(1935), Going Wild(1930), Wide Open Faces(1938), Fireman Save My Child(1932), Fit for a King(1937), Flirting With Fate(1938) ... ...
Drama
USA
1947
81 Minutes
Rev. Will Norris
The first of the Edward L. Alperson "Alson Productions" for 20th Century-Fox distribution, featuring the return to the screen, after nearly a four-year absence, of comedian Joe E. Brown, in... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1936
69 Minutes
Alexander Botts
Joe E. Brown June Travis Guy Kibbee Dick Foran Carol Hughes Gene Lockhart Olin Howland
Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1935
83 Minutes
Joe E. Brown Ann Dvorak Patricia Ellis William Gargan Joseph Cawthorn Arthur Treacher Gordon Westcott Joseph Crehan William Demarest
Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1931
67 Minutes
Joe E. Brown Dorothy Lee Ruth Hall Edward Woods Edward Nugent Wade Boteler John Harrington William Burress
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1934
62 Minutes
"Feet" Samuels
Joe E. Brown Alice White Robert Barrat Alan Dinehart Irene Franklin Hobart Cavanaugh Arthur Vinton G. Pat Collins
gambler doctor hit man girlfriend patient crafty suspenseful amusing apartment nightclub new york city laboratory bar gambling debt love triangle scientific experiments deadline transformation underdog
Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1933
74 Minutes
Joe E. Brown Patricia Ellis Claire Dodd Frank McHugh Preston Foster Russell Hopton Sterling Holloway Emma Dunn Charles Wilson Jessie Ralph Douglas Dumbrille
baseball player girlfriend manager gambler teammate amusing heartwarming chicago baseball field baseball love success rivalry underdog adventure 1930s
Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.
Comedy
USA
1935
73 Minutes
Frank X. Farrell
Joe E. Brown Olivia de Havilland William Frawley Roscoe Karns Joe King Ruth Donnelly Paul Harvey Eddie Shubert G. Pat Collins Spencer Charters Gene Morgan
pitcher fiancée baseball manager baseball player gambler wife hilarious thrilling chicago baseball field stadium household baseball gambling lying kidnapping engagement love rise transformation
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Comedy
USA
1930
68 Minutes
Rollo Smith
Joe E. Brown Lawrence Gray Laura Lee Walter Pidgeon Ona Munson Frank McHugh May Boley Harvey Clark Anders Randolf Sam Cantor Arthur Hoyt
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1938
67 Minutes
Joe E. Brown Jane Wyman Alison Skipworth Lyda Roberti Alan Baxter Lucien Littlefield Sidney Toler Berton Churchill Barbara Pepper Joseph Downing
Criminal from all over the country converge on the Lakeside Inn in Willow Springs where bank robber Duke Temple (Stanley Fields) has stashed $100,000. Wilbur Keeks (Joe E. Brown),soda jerk ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1932
67 Minutes
"Smokey" Joe Grant
Joe E. Brown Evalyn Knapp Lilian Bond George Meeker Guy Kibbee George Ernest Ben Hendricks Jr. Virginia Sale Frank Shallenbach Richard Carle Louis Robinson
fireman coach fiancée baseball scout gold digger company president playful amusing firehouse baseball field office st. louis community center inventions firefighting baseball duplicity contract engagement quest
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small home town. He gets an offer to play in a big team, he hopes to get more money for his inventions. But he is invited to ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1937
73 Minutes
Virgil Jones
Joe E. Brown Helen Mack Paul Kelly Harry Davenport Halliwell Hobbes John Qualen Donald Briggs Frank Reicher Russell Hicks Charles Trowbridge
A newspaper reporter assigned to do a story on royalty and the antics begin. Some comic relief.
Comedy
USA
1938
69 Minutes
A show troupe, led by Dan Dixon and traveling in a trailer, is stranded in Paraguay. Dan is all set to be booked in the theatres controlled by Don Luis Garcia until the latter discovers Dan... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1937
70 Minutes
Elmer Lane
Joe E. Brown Guy Kibbee Florence Rice Vinton Howarth Anthony Nace Harlan Briggs Andrew Tombes Clem Bevans
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.
Comedy
1934
63 Minutes
Happy Howard
Joe E. Brown Patricia Ellis Dorothy Burgess Don Dillaway Gordon Westcott Charles Wilson Harry Woods Ronnie Cosby John Sheehan Spencer Charters
father son trapeze artist clown ringmaster bareback rider positive playful household circus office tent ambition acrobatics circus life false accusations drunkenness guilt quest growing up
A country boy (Joe E. Brown) falls for a female impersonator and joins the circus despite his father.
Comedy
1937
77 Minutes
Dustin Willoughby
Joe E. Brown Edgar Kennedy Margaret Hamilton Marian Marsh Suzanne Kaaren
astrologer boxer sweetheart ex-fiancée gambler carnival barker amusing spirited restaurant boxing ring carnival astrology bad luck love triangle gambling boxing engagement underdog love 1930s
Afraid to marry his fiancée, Diane (Suzanne Kaaren), under a negative planetary influence, wacky astrology student, busboy and aspiring prizefighter Dustin Willoughby (Joe E. Brown) calls off the wedding and finds a new sweetheart.
Comedy
1934
69 Minutes
Wilfred
Joe E. Brown Maxine Doyle Frank McHugh Gordon Westcott Arthur Aylesworth Lottie Williams Dorothy Christy Harry Seymour Lloyd Neal William Granger
A small-town clerk (Joe E. Brown) impresses his girlfriend (Maxine Doyle) by entering a big-city bicycle race.
Comedy
USA
1942
80 Minutes
Cliff Little
During World War II, a yodeling hillbilly singer goes undercover to expose a ring of Nazi spies operating in the United States.
Comedy
USA
1931
75 Minutes
Jojo
Winnie Lightner Joe E. Brown Claudia Dell Paul Gregory Lotti Loder Hobart Bosworth Frank Hagney Snitz Edwards
The managers of a gymnasium/health spa train an office clerk to be a champion wrestler.
Musical
USA
1930
80 Minutes
Hoke Curtis
Jeanette MacDonald John Garrick Joe E. Brown ZaSu Pitts Robert Chisholm Joseph Macaulay Harry Gribbon Carroll Nye Max Davidson Frank Brownlee Paul Hurst
Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.
Musical
USA
1951
107 Minutes
Cap'n Andy Hawks
Kathryn Grayson Howard Keel Ava Gardner Joe E. Brown Gower Champion Marge Champion Robert Sterling Agnes Moorehead Adele Jergens William Warfield Leif Erickson
singer gambler husband wife daughter melodramatic powerful steamboat casino mississippi stage music gambling race relations marriage performance temptation discovery forbidden love 1900s
The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
83 Minutes
Eddie Hall
Betty Grable John Harvey Martha Raye Joe E. Brown Eugene Pallette Mantan Moreland
singer best friend war hero friend club owner entertainer playful spirited montana u.s.o. club train station new york city nightclub washington, d.c. deception impersonation performance war heroes friendship home front
A U.S.O. singer poses as a Broadway star in order to attract a handsome war hero.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1929
103 Minutes
Joe Beaton
Betty Compson Sally O'Neil Arthur Lake Joe E. Brown Louise Fazenda William Bakewell Sam Hardy Harry Gribbon
star ingénue comedian actor producer understudy charming lighthearted amusing new jersey theater stage backstage relationships performance music romance show business financial troubles love
A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
Horror
USA
1964
88 Minutes
Cemetery Keeper
Vincent Price Peter Lorre Boris Karloff Joyce Jameson Joe E. Brown Miss Beverly Hills Basil Rathbone Alan DeWitt Buddy Mason Douglas Williams
undertaker killer widow landlord assistant dark campy thrilling frightful funeral home new england crypt murder debt alcoholism schemes greed buried alive transformation mystery
Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
Comedy
USA
1959
120 Minutes
Osgood Fielding
Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon Marilyn Monroe George Raft Pat O'Brien Joe E. Brown Nehemiah Persoff Joan Shawlee Billy Gray George E. Stone Dave Barry
musician friend sexy woman millionaire mobster playful hilarious wild chicago train florida beach hotel nightclub deception sex friendship wealth escape love
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1956
170 Minutes
Stationmaster
David Niven Cantinflas Shirley MacLaine Robert Newton Charles Boyer Joe E. Brown Martine Carol John Carradine Charles Coburn Ronald Colman Melville Cooper
explorer servant police officer princess airy charming playful london spain paris india japan san francisco expedition class distinctions culture clash theft adventure pursuit quest
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.