Joe E. Brown – MRQE

Take Me Home

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show’s star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.

Sally

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.

Painted Faces

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.

The Gladiator

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.

Maybe It’s Love

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the black-sheep son of a wealthy alumnus. Though Nelson is an ace football player, President Sheffield refuses to enroll the boy because of his bad reputation, whereupon Tommy’s father withdraws his financial backing and bars his son from ever setting foot on Sheffield’s campus. Falling in love with Nan, Tommy signs up with the college under an assumed name, giving up his wastrel ways to lead the football team to victory. Joe E. Brown steals the show as Speed Hanson, a goofy gridiron star who emits a loud and long yell whenever scoring a touchdown (this was, in fact, the first film in which Brown’s famous “Yeeeeowww” was heard — but certainly not the last).

Chatterbox

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood “cowboy” star–whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one–is saved from disaster by a gregarious local girl. She winds up becoming not only his leading lady in the movie but, because of a set of nutty offscreen circumstances, his fiancé in real life.

The Tenderfoot

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman’s secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d’etat producing a play that she stars in.

The Comedy of Terrors

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An undertaker who hasn’t had any ‘customers’ in a long time is forced to pay one year’s back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

Some Like It Hot

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings – such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Fireman, Save My Child

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe’s invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?