The Clarence Brown Papers (MS.0702)

Description

This collection houses scripts, movies stills, photographs, awards, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting the life and work of motion picture director Clarence Brown.

Items in the The Clarence Brown Papers (MS.0702) Collection

Candid photograph of Claude Jarman, Jr. (left) and William Faulkner on the set of Intruder in the Dust. Jarman played Chick Mallison in the film adaptation (directed by Clarence Brown) of Faulkner's play.

View of various acquaintances of the 1940 UT football team at the time of their trip to the Rose Bowl. In the front are (left to right) Jack Joyner (UT publicity director), Walter Stewart (representing the Memphis Commercial Appeal), Fred Russell…

"The Signal Tower" was one of the earliest movies that Clarence Brown directed. It tells the story of a railroad signal man named David Tolliver (Rockcliffe Fellowes), his wife Sally (Virginia Vallie), and their child Sonny (Frankie Darrow). The…

Based on a Pushkin novel, "The Eagle" stars Rudolph Valentino as a Russian cossack named Vladimir Dubrouvsky. He is one of Catherine the Great's particular favorites, but he will not be kept as a lover and spurns her advances. When Kyrilla…

Based on a Pushkin novel, "The Eagle" stars Rudolph Valentino as a Russian cossack named Vladimir Dubrouvsky. He is one of Catherine the Great's particular favorites, but he will not be kept as a lover and spurns her advances. When Kyrilla…