Clarence Brown Movies

Want to know the best Clarence Brown movies?  How about the worst Clarence Brown movies?  Curious about Clarence Brown box office grosses or which Clarence Brown movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Clarence Brown movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Clarence Brown (1890-1987) was an Oscar®-nominated American director. During his career, Brown received 6 Best Director Oscar® nominations.  Brown’s IMDb page shows 52 directing credits from 1920 to 1952.  This page will rank Clarence Brown movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  Some of his silent movies were not included in the rankings.

Anna Karenina (1935)

Clarence Brown Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Clarence Brown directed Clark Gable in 7 movies

Clarence Brown Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

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  • Sort Clarence Brown movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Clarence Brown movie received.
  • Sort Clarence Brown movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Intruder In The Dust (1949)

Possibly Interesting Facts About Clarence Brown

1. Clarence Leon Brown was born in Clinton, Massachusetts in 1890.

2. Clarence Brown was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War I.

3. Clarence Brown directed Joan Crawford six times and Greta Garbo seven.

4. Clarence Brown’s films gained a total of 38 Academy Award® nominations and earned nine Oscars®.

5. At six, Clarence Brown holds the record for the most Academy Award® nominations for Best Director without a win. He was nominated for Anna Christie (1930), Romance (1930), A Free Soul (1931), The Human Comedy (1943), National Velvet (1944) and The Yearling (1946).

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4 thoughts on “Clarence Brown Movies

  1. I have seen 30 Clarence Brown movies, including 19 of the top 20.

    The HIGHEST ranked film I have seen is The Yearling.

    The highest ranked film I have NOT seen is Emma.

    The LOWEST ranked film I have seen is It’s a Big Country.

    Favourite Clarence Brown Movies:

    The Human Comedy
    National Velvet
    The Rains Came
    The White Cliffs of Dover
    They Met in Bombay
    Song of Love
    Wife vs. Secretary
    A Free Soul
    Anna Christie
    Flesh and the Devil
    Anna Karenina
    Idiot’s Delight
    Romance
    Angels in the Outfield
    Night Flight

    Other Clarence Brown Movies I Have Seen:

    The Yearling
    Chained
    The Gorgeous Hussy
    A Woman of Affairs
    Sadie McGee
    Come Live With Me
    Edison, The Man
    Conquest
    Ah! Wilderness
    To Please a Lady
    Of Human Hearts
    Looking Forward
    Intruder in the Dust
    When in Rome
    It’s a Big Country

    1. Hey Flora….thanks for sharing your thoughts on Clarence Brown movies. Tally count…..7 for me and you have me beat 4 times plus with 30 movies. All 7 of my Brown movies seen are in your favorites list. I did not like Idiot’s Delight at all. I have seen known of the “other” Brown movies you have seen. Good stuff as always.

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