He quickly became a favorite with child audiences, and shot to stardom after appearing in the first all-color all-talking musical comedy On with the Show (1929). In late 1928, Brown began making films, starting the next year with Warner Bros. With June Travis in Earthworm Tractors (1936) He moved to Broadway in the 1920s, first appearing in the musical comedy Jim Jam Jems. He gradually added comedy to his act, and transformed himself into a comedian. After three seasons he returned to the circus, then went into vaudeville and finally starred on Broadway. Despite his skill, he declined an opportunity to sign with the New York Yankees to pursue his career as an entertainer. Later he became a professional baseball player. In 1902, at the age of ten, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvelous Ashtons, who toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits. He spent most of his childhood in Toledo.
In his later career Brown starred in Some Like It Hot (1959), as Osgood Fielding III, in which he utters the film's famous punchline "Well, nobody's perfect."īrown was born on July 28, 1891, in Holgate, Ohio, near Toledo, into a large family of Welsh descent. He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s, with films like A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), Earthworm Tractors (1936), and Alibi Ike (1935).
Joseph Evans Brown (July 28, 1891 – July 6, 1973) was an American actor and comedian, remembered for his friendly screen persona, comic timing, and enormous elastic-mouth smile.
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