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Joe E. Brown - Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon (Paperback)
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As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown
had a job: making faces at the firemen on passing coal-burning
trains so they would throw coal at him. As a child he also worked
as a circus acrobat and newsboy. His inventiveness and spunk helped
his family get through hard times, but also fuelled his fascination
with entertainment and prepared him for a stage and screen career.
Joe Evan Brown built up a repertoire of rubber-faced expressions
and funny antics that would make his stage and screen work
memorable. Baseball was a favourite pursuit in his life and thus a
recurring theme in his films and skits. In his personal life he was
a family man and humanitarian who forever loved to be in front of
an audience. The first chapter introduces Joe's cavernous mouth,
his signature howl of dismay and other likeable features that
commanded attention on the screen. The reader learns of Joe's
challenging childhood and how it prepared him for later screen
roles, and how his love of baseball translated into screen
successes. Subsequent chapters trace his early career in
vaudeville, his work as a Broadway comedian in the ""Roaring
Twenties"", his road to movie stardom (which the author calls ""a
compendium of ironies""), his life as a top box office star, and
how he parlayed his love of sports into big hits like 1930's
""Elmer the Great"". The year 1935 gets its own chapter; its films
are considered the pinnacle of Brown's career, including ""Alibi
Ike"", ""Bright Lights"" and ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Those
were such tough acts to follow that anything afterward was called a
decline, though Brown had many successful roles after 1935. The
final chapters reveal what happened after he left Warner Bros.,
details his busy life with growing children, and chronicles the
bittersweet 1940s in which entertained troops around the globe
while mourning a son lost to the war. The last chapter, 'The Last
Act,"" rounds up his awards and kudos, his final roles, and his
family life. The book concludes with a comprehensive filmography of
his features from 1928 to 1963. A foreword is by Conrad Lane, a
professor emeritus who remains active as a film essayist and movie
history instructor.
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