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Clarence Brown
10 May 1890
Clarence Brown created 4 movies in the Drama, Romance, Music, Comedy genres.
Clarence Brown got succeed with average imdb rating 7.5.
Was married 4 times. The name of his first wife is unknown; his second wife was Ona Brown; his third wife was Alice Joyce and his fourth wife was Marian Spies, whom he widowed. He also had a daughter, probably by his first wife, born in 1918 and named Adrienne.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 63-66. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
Prior to becoming a director, he was a used-car salesman.
Directed 10 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Marie Dressler, Beulah Bondi, Charles Boyer, Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere, Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. Barrymore and Revere won Oscars for their performances in one of Brown's movies.
... Was good friends with Erich von Stroheim
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