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Broadminded is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Mervyn LeRoy released in USA on 1 august 1931 with Joe E. Brown
Broadminded (1931)
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Add to a movie listBroadminded is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Joe E. Brown.
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Brown plays Ossie, a New York City playboy sent to California to straighten himself out. He and his cousin, while driving west, pay too much attention to a sedan full of college girls and rear end a car driven by Pancho Arango (Bela Lugosi). The cousins make it to Hollywood where Brown falls in love with Lugosi's daughter.Actors
Joe E. Brown
(Ossie Simpson)
Ona Munson
(Constance Palmer)
Bela Lugosi
(Pancho Arango)
William Collier Jr.
(Jack Hackett)
Thelma Todd
(Gertie Gardner)
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