Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States on May 10th, 1890 and is the Director. At the age of 97, Clarence Brown biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.
Early life
Brown, born in Clinton, Massachusetts, and Katherine Ann Brown, a textile manufacturer, and Larkin Henry Brown, a retired school teacher, and Katherine Ann Brown (née Gaw), Brown immigrated to Tennessee when he was 11 years old. He attended Knoxville High School and the University of Tennessee, both located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and graduated from the university at the age of 19 with two degrees in engineering. Brown began working with the Stevens-Duryea Company and later moved to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama, following an early fascination with automobiles. He later left the car dealership after becoming involved in motion pictures about 1913. He was recruited by the Peerless Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and became an assistant to French-born director Maurice Tourneur.
Personal life
Clarence Brown has been married four times. In 1913, he married Paula Herndon Pratt, which lasted until their divorce in 1920. Adrienne Brown, the couple's daughter, was born.
He married Ona Wilson in 1922, which was their second marriage, which lasted from 1922 to 1927.
He was engaged to Dorothy Sebastian and Mona Maris, but he did not marry either of them, and Maris later said she ended their marriage because she had her "own views of marriage then."
Alice Joyce Joyce, his third wife, married him in 1933 and divorced in 1945.
Marian Spies was his last marriage before his death in 1987.
Career
Brown was given his first co-directing credit (1920) for The Great Redeemer (1920), after serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the United States Army Air Service during World War I. After Tourneur was hospitalized in a fall, he supervised a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans later this year.
Brown went to Universal in 1924 and then to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he remained until the mid-1950s. He was one of MGM's top female directors, and he directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven times.
Brown was nominated six times for an Academy Award as a producer, but he never received an Academy Award. Nonetheless, he received Best Foreign Film for Anna Karenina, who appeared Garbo in the 1935 Venice International Film Festival.
Brown's films received a total of 38 Academy Award nominations and nine Academy Award nominations, as well as nine Oscars. Brown himself received six Academy Award nominations, and in 1949, he received the British Academy Award for William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust's film version.
Brown received the George Eastman Award in 1957 for his contributions to the field of film. Brown was a wealthy man thanks to his real estate investments, but he avoided watching new films because doing so would force him to restart his career.
In his honor, the Clarence Brown Theatre on the University of Tennessee's campus has been named in honor. With six nominations, he holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Director without a win.