Signed to a contract by Warner Brothers Studio in 1929, he included a strange clause; it stipulated that he was to be supplied with a baseball team, which became "Joe Brown's All Stars." Many of his most notable motion pictures were those where he was permitted to use his athletic abilities, such as "Fireman, Save My Child," "Elmer the Great," and "Alibi Ike." He ended his contract with Warner Brothers in 1936, and signed with an independent producer. His career after that consisted of a series of low-budget comedies and films in the "B" category. During World War II, he put his movie career on hold to provided entertainment for United States troops. He suffered the loss of his son, a United States Army Captain who was killed in a stateside airplane crash. In the postwar era, Brown worked mainly with stage productions for the road companies of "Harvey" and "Show Boat," then added television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. He was awarded a special Tony Award for the touring production of "Harvey," and Bowling Green State University named a theatre after him where he appeared in a production of that musical. His most well-known post-World War II role was that of Osgood Fielding III in the 1959 comedy "Some Like It Hot." He wrote his biography "Laughter is a Wonderful Thing" with collaborator Ralph Hancock, which was published in 1956, and the work, "Joe E. Brown: Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon," by Wes D. Gehring was published in 2006.

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