Lucile Browne
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Also Known As
Lucille E Brown,
Lucille Browne,
Lucille Brown,
Lucile Brown
Died
August 21, 1992
Cause of Death
Long Illness
Biography
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Black American actress, singer and dancer who began her career at age 5 when Hal Roach took her out of an orphanage to play Farina for about a year in his "Our Gang" comedies. Brown's career in film was rather brief, though she did small roles in the later all-Black features "The Green Pastures" (1936) and "Stormy Weather" (1943). Brown also sang and danced for many years as the headline...
Biography
Black American actress, singer and dancer who began her career at age 5 when Hal Roach took her out of an orphanage to play Farina for about a year in his "Our Gang" comedies. Brown's career in film was rather brief, though she did small roles in the later all-Black features "The Green Pastures" (1936) and "Stormy Weather" (1943). Brown also sang and danced for many years as the headliner of Babe Barlow and the Sugar Drops. Not to be confused with white American actress Lucille Brown, leading lady of a handful of modest films in the 1930s.
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
No Sad Songs for Me
(1950)
Mrs. Hendrickson
A Woman of Distinction
(1950)
Manicurist
The Thin Man Goes Home
(1945)
Skater
Ladies of Washington
(1944)
Woman passenger
Once Upon a Time
(1944)
Miss Flemming
A Tragedy at Midnight
(1942)
Nurse
Missing Daughters
(1939)
Estelle
Sweethearts
(1938)
Chorus girl
Cheyenne Rides Again
(1937)
Sally Lane
Magnificent Obsession
(1936)
Nurse
The Crooked Trail
(1936)
Helen Carter
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
(1935)
Jerry
Texas Terror
(1935)
Beth Matthews
Rainbow Valley
(1935)
Eleanor
The Brand of Hate
(1935)
Margie Orkin
Western Frontier
(1935)
Mary [Harper]
On Probation
(1935)
Jane Peters Murray
Secrets of Chinatown
(1935)
Elinor Norton
(1934)
Publisher's staff
Hide-Out
(1934)
The Law of the Wild
(1934)
Now I'll Tell
(1934)
Nurse
Double Harness
(1933)
Valerie [Moore]
Flying Down to Rio
(1933)
The Devil's Brother
(1933)
Zerlina
King of the Arena
(1933)
Mary Hiller
The Mystery Squadron
(1933)
The Texan
(1932)
Mary Lou
Cannonball Express
(1932)
Sally
The Air Mail Mystery
(1932)
The Last of the Mohicans
(1932)
Young As You Feel
(1931)
Dorothy Gregson
Girls About Town
(1931)
Edna
Battling With Buffalo Bill
(1931)
Danger Island
(1931)
Last of the Duanes
(1930)
Ruth Garrett
Soup to Nuts
(1930)
Louise
The King of Kings
(1927)
The Sport of the Gods
(1921)
Fannie Hamilton
The Mother and the Law
(1919)
Self-styled "Uplifter"
Intolerance
(1916)
Self-styled Uplifter
Cast (Short)
Call Her Sausage
(1933)
Life Events
1923
Was living in an orphanage when producer Hal Roach cast her as Farina in the "Our Gang" comedies
