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Johnny Mack Brown dancing the Bowery Tap with Qwen Lee

Stage Name

Birth Name

Johnny Mack Brown

John Mack Brown

   

Was a star All-American football player (running back) on the University of Alabama football team, who wanted to be an entertainer. Originally was a dancer who was well known for his Bowery Tap routine with Qwen Lee (pictured.)

   Later he went to Hollywood and got into acting and danced in many dance spots in movies such as 'Our Dancing Daughters' with Joan Crawford and began doing bit parts around 1927 in silent's, a few musicals and later was mainly cast in western roles. His first big screen western role was in the 1933 role of 'FIGHTING WITH KIT CARSON' film. Brown appeared in over 160 movies (mainly westerns) between 1927 and 1966. Brown died in Woodland Hills, California of heart failure at the age of 70.

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Dothan, AL 9/1/1904 - 11/14/1974 Connie Cornelia Foster
    Jane Harriet Brown  
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Bowery Tap Joan Crawford n/a
      Qwen Lee      
                 
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

n/a n/a n/a
                 
 

Films

Television

Publications

1927- Slide, Kelly Slide n/a 9/30/1927 - Photoplay Magazine
1927 - The Bugle Call       1929- Jazz Heaven Magazine
1927 - The Mockery       $ From Pigskin to Saddle Leather (book)
1927 - The Fair Co- Ed       4/1947 - Song and Saddle: Barn Dance
$1928 - A Woman of Affairs       6/1951 - dell comic #5 - J.M.Brown
1928 - The Play Girl       6/1955 - dell comic #618 - J.M.Brown
$1928 - Our Dancing Daughters            
1928 - Lady Of Chance            
1929 - Jazz Heaven            
1930 - Montana Moon            
$1933 - Hollywood On Parade            
$1934 - Belle Of The Nineties            
1934 - Star Night at the Coconut Grove            
$1940 - Ragtime Cowboy Joe            
1941 - Law Of The Range            
1941 - The Masked Rider            
1941 - Man From Montana            
$1942 - Ride Em Cowboy            
1942 - Arizona Cyclone            
1942 - Fighting Bill Fargo            
1942 - Stagecoach Buckaroo            
1942 - The Silver Bullet            
1942 - Deep in the Heart of TX's            
1942 - The Boss Of Hangtown            
1942 - Little Joe            
1942 - The Wrangler            
$1943 - The Texas Kid            
Lawless Frontier            
Wild West Days            
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February 22, 2013
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