National Velvet (1944) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury

Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to Mickey Rooney in the showier role of Mike Taylor, a headstrong English ex-jockey. Soured on life by a serious accident, Mike plans to steal from the country family that has taken him in, but his resolve is weakened by the ...

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The Yearling (1946) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr., Chill Wills, Forrest Tucker, June Lockhart

Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling is set in post-Civil War Florida. Claude Jarman Jr. plays Jody Baxter, the lonely son of just-getting-by farmers Pa and Ma Baxter (Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman). With all of his siblings dead and buried, Jody yearns to have a pet of some sort. When Pa is forced by circumstances to kill a ...

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Angels in the Outfield (1951) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Donna Corcoran, Lewis Stone

Though not the most profitable baseball comedy ever made, Angels in the Outfield is one of the most likeable and enduring. Paul Douglas stars as Guffy McGovern, the combative, foul-mouthed manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. With his team in the basement once more, McGovern has plenty to complain about. All this changes when, while wandering ...

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Anna Karenina (1935) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan, May Robson

This second filmization of Leo Tolstoy's novel is widely regarded as the best version. Greta Garbo plays the title character, the sheltered wife of Czarist official Rathbone. Intending to dissuade Rathbone's brother (Reginald Owen) from a life of debauchery, Garbo is sidetracked by her own fascination with dashing military officer Fredric March. ...

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To Please a Lady (1950) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Roland Winters, Will Geer

Arrogant Mike Brannan (Clark Gable) is a famous driver of midget race cars and is the type of man crowds love to hate. He earned his bad-boy image after he is blamed for causing a fatal crash during a race. Wanting to see if all the hoopla is true, tough columnist Regina Forbes (Barbara Stanwyck) tries to interview her, but Mike refuses. Later she ...

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Edison, The Man (1940) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart

In 1940, MGM turned out two films on the life of Thomas Alva Edison.The first, Young Tom Edison, starred Mickey Rooney and trotted out all the old Edison folklore, including the now-discredited incident in which Tom loses his hearing by being yanked onto a train by his ears. Edison the Man, starring Spencer Tracy in the title role, downplays ...

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The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Frank Morgan, Ralph Morgan, Roddy McDowall, Van Johnson

The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one can remember the film as a sum total. Based on a poem by Alice Duer Miller, the story chronicles the trials and tribulations of one courageous woman through two world wars. Irene Dunne plays an American girl who, in 1914, ...

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The Rains Came (1939) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce

Myrna Loy stars in Clarence Brown's sumptuous and exotic romance, based upon the novel by Louis Bromfield. Loy plays Lady Edwina Esketh, the unhappily married wife of Lord Albert Esketh (Nigel Bruce), a dumpy middle-aged English businessman. Edwina escapes her loneliness by engaging in ephemeral love affairs. When Lord Albert travels to the Indian ...

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Intruder in the Dust (1949) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring David Brian, Claude Jarman, Jr., Juano Hernandez, Charles Kemper, Will Geer, Elizabeth Patterson

Intruder in the Dust is one of the best of Hollywood's postwar "racial tolerance" cycle--a cycle that would come to an abrupt end in the politically paranoid 1950s. Based on a novel by William Faulkner, the film takes place in a small Mississippi town (it was filmed on location in and around Oxford, MS). Juano Hernandez plays an African-American ...

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A Woman of Affairs (1928) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Michael Arlen's notorious novel The Green Hat was considered such a hot potato censor-wise that the property's title could not be used when it was adapted to film. Retitled A Woman of Affairs, this tale of a woman destroyed by syphilis was heavily laundered for the screen. Greta Garbo plays an impulsive British lass who, when denied permission to ...

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Anna Christie (1930) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Greta Garbo, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, Charles Bickford

Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo made her "talking picture" debut in this carefully chosen vehicle, the second screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1922 play about the Minnesota-raised Swedish girl who desperately attempts to keep her unsavory past from her long-lost father, Kris ...

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Song of Love (1947) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell, Leo G. Carroll

Song of Love is the MGM-ified version of the lives and loves of 19th century musicians Clara Wieck Schumann (Katharine Hepburn), Robert Schumann (Paul Henreid) and Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker, who the previous year had played another composer, Jerome Kern, in Til the Clouds Roll By). Clara gives up her thriving career as a concert pianist to ...

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Of Human Hearts (1938) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn

Clarence Brown directed this heart-tugging piece of Americana, set during the Civil War era. Walter Huston plays a stern family patriarch, a preacher who thrusts his family into poverty in order to set an example for his parishioners. As a result, his son (James Stewart) grows up to resent him. He looks to travel East and go to medical school, but ...

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Wife vs. Secretary (1936) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, Hobart Cavanaugh

Magazine publisher Clark Gable is happily married to Myrna Loy. Clark's devoted, super-efficient secretary Jean Harlow may have once harbored a secret desire for her boss, but she's perfectly content with boyfriend James Stewart. Accompanying Gable on a crucial business trip, Jean answers the phone in her boss' suite. Myrna, on the other end of ...

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Sadie McKee (1934) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold, Esther Ralston

MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield unexpected delights. It all begins when Sadie McKee (Joan Crawford) is brought to big bad old New York by glib vaudevillian Tommy (Gene Raymond), only to be unceremoniously dumped in favor of actress Dolly (Esther Ralston). Cast ...

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Looking Forward (1933) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Lionel Barrymore, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan, Phillips Holmes

A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had worked at that shop for over 40 years. It was a family tradition to work at that shop. But now, his boss is selling the shop to a lower-priced rival, and the poor man and his family are left to cope with the devastating loss. ...

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Smouldering Fires (1925) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Pauline Frederick, Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor, Tully Marshall, Wanda Hawley

Smouldering Fires is a first-rate silent "soap opera," immaculately performed by its superb cast and brilliantly directed by Clarence Brown. Pauline Frederick plays a highly efficient middle-aged business executive, whose motto is "Let No Man Be Necessary to You." She discards this edict when she falls in love with her much-younger employee ...

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The Last of the Mohicans (1920) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur
featuring Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Albert Roscoe, Lillian Hall, Henry Woodward

Maurice Tourneur was the original director on the 1920 silent version of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, but he fell ill during production, obliging his talented assistant Clarence Brown to finish the job. Though contractually Tourneur could have taken full credit for the finished film, he generously shared that credit with Brown, ...

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A Free Soul (1931) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason

In this Academy Award-winning film, Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) is a hotshot Californian lawyer from a well-to-do family, whose main failing is his indulgence in alcohol. After winning a case for mobster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable), Stephen brings his client along to a party at his parents' house for a little celebrating. However, when they ...

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The Eagle (1925) more movies like this

directed by Clarence Brown
featuring Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Louise Dresser, Albert Conti, James Marcus

Based on a Pushkin novel, The Eagle stars Rudolph Valentino as a Russian cossack who is the special favorite of the formidable Catherine the Great (Louise Dresser). He spurns her attentions, preferring not to be a kept consort. When his lands are stolen from him, Valentino transforms into a Robin-Hood-like masked avenger. Vilma Banky plays the ...

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