Joe E. Brown entered show business at age 10 when he toured circus and vaudeville circuits in a tumbling act. Graduating to comedy, he appeared on Broadway in the 1920s and was a major comedic film star throughout the 1930... more »s, featured in lavish Technicolor musical comedies including Hold Everything (1930) and Song Of The West (1930). His long distinguished career includes appearances in Around The World In Eighty Days and his beloved role as millionaire Osgood Fielding III who falls for Jack Lemmon in drag in Some Like It Hot (1959). Riding On Air (1937, B&W): Small town reporter Elmer Lane wins the enormous sum of $5,000 in the Crunchies essay contest, which draws the intense interest of seasoned flim-flam man Doc Waddington. When's Your Birthday (1937, B&W): ""Your mother's a crab and your father's a goat!"" Realizing that ""the planets are wrong,"" astrologer Dustin Willoughby insists on changing his wedding date, causing his furious fiance to break off the engagement and her father to throw him out of the house. Down on his luck, waiting tables in a nightclub, Dustin catches the attention of some high-rolling gamblers with his uncanny ability to use the stars to pick winners at the track. Earthworm Tractors (1936, B&W): Alexander Botts, the newest representative for the Earthworm Tractor Company, has only two problems- his total inexperience with mechanics and his extraordinary incompetence. Fit For A King (1937, B&W): Comic whirlwind Joe E. Brown stars as newspaper go-fer Virgil Jones, the favored nephew of the New York Daily Blade's publisher but the bane of editor Mr. Hardwick. Painted Faces (1929, B&W): As the lone dissenting juror in a seemingly open-and-shut murder case, soft-spoken Hermann, a circus clown by trade, is under tremendous pressure from the other jurors to join them in finding the defendant guilty.« less
Actor:Joe E. Brown Studio:Alpha Home Entertainment Format:DVD DVD Release Date: 07/31/2011 Release Year: 2011 Run Time: 6hr 0min Number of Discs: 4 SwapaDVD Credits: 4 Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0