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6 unusual facts about Clarence Brown


Bruce McCarty

In the following five years, the firm designed the Mountain View Garages, Broadway Baptist and Westminster Churches, Virgin Islands St. Croix Condominiums, the University of Tennessee Clarence Brown Theatre, and the University of Tennessee Administration Building.

Clarence Brown

An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama.

He is tied with Robert Altman and Alfred Hitchcock for the most Academy Award nominations for best director without a single win.

Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust was turned into an MGM film of the same name directed by Clarence Brown in 1949 after MGM paid film rights of $50,000 to Faulkner.

John C. Hodges Library

Its special collections department includes notable collections such as the writings of James Agee and Alex Haley, as well as film director Clarence Brown.

Mona Maris

Her first marriage took place while she was working in Europe and was terminated before she travelled to the United States, and her second marriage was to Clarence Brown.


Barbara McLean

She was nominated for an Academy Award for editing The Rains Came (1939), which was the only time she worked with director Clarence Brown.

Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary is a 1936 comedy film directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown, and starring Clark Gable as a successful businessman, Jean Harlow as his secretary, and Myrna Loy as his wife, supported by James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles, as the secretary's suitor.


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