Vanessa Brown (Actor)

Reviews of Vanessa Brown Movies

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Movies starring Vanessa Brown have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.

The Heiress - released in 1949 - is Vanessa Brown's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 165 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Vanessa Brown is Youth Runs Wild - released in 1944 - with a score of 35% based on 4 reviews.

Actor Biography

Known as the bright radio "Quiz Kid," Vanessa Brown became a popular leading lady in films and stage productions of the 1940s and 1950s and later a respected writer. During her heyday as an actress, Brown appeared in such varied productions as "The Seven Year Itch" opposite Tom Ewell on Broadway (a role later assumed by Marilyn Monroe in the film version) and the motion picture "Tarzan and the Slave Girl." Brown toured with Katharine Hepburn in a Theatre Guild production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and became something of a protege of the legendary actress. Among Brown's major films of the late 1940s and the early 1950s were "I've Always Loved You," "The Late George Apley," "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," "The Foxes of Harrow," "The Heiress," "The Fighter" and "The Bad and the Beautiful.

Vanessa Brown has acted in films with Donald Kerr, Sam Harris, Franklyn Farnum and Mona Freeman.

Vanessa Brown has worked with these film directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William Wyler, Vincente Minnelli and Henry King.