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Actor: Valley of Fear. An All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown chose the silver screen over the green grass of the football field when he graduated. Signed to a contract with MGM in 1926, Brown debuted in Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927) with William Haines in a film about - baseball.
Johnny Mack Brown is best remembered as perhaps the first athlete who successfully pursued a motion picture career. As a football player at the University of Alabama, Brown played in one of the most important games in southern football history.
Aug 22, 2022 · Johnny Mack Brown, one of the University of Alabama's first marquee football players, went on to become a matinee idol during the golden age of western films....
Alabama native Johnny Mack Brown (1904-1974) was a celebrated college football player and western film star. A running back for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide during the mid-1920s, he went to Hollywood after college and enjoyed a successful acting career that included more than 160 film appearances. Appears In. Houston County.
“Johnny Mack Brown represents an uncommonly full and fulfilling story of celebrity at the intersection of life with not one, but two, powerful myths of American manhood,” historian Philip D ...
Nov 15, 1974 · Film: North side of the 6100 block of Hollywood Boulevard. Actor | Athlete Born Sept. 1, 1904 in Dothan, Ala. Died Nov. 14, 1974 in Woodland Hills, CA. J ohnny Mack Brown soared from...
Biography. An All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown chose the silver screen over the green grass of the football field when he graduated. Signed to a contract with MGM in 1926, Brown debuted in Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927) with William Haines in a film about - baseball.
